The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

and sublme wisdom of the Lords spiritual and
temporal, and country gentlemen in Parliament
assembled. But Conservative legislators have
not being idle during the last fifty years. They
have made as many regulations as they could
well forge every session, for one branch or other
of the community, and the result is manifest in
its present condition. What reason have we to
conclude that the restrictive legislation they now
propose would be more beneficial than their past
legislation ? The system and the evils of the last
fifty years will not be the system and the evils of
the next fifty years. To make their proposed
restraints effectual to good, they must know
beforehand the direction which the national in-
dustry will take. They had no fore-knowledge
fifty years ago of its present condition, and they
can now have no knowledge of what will be its
condition fifty years hence. In no two
periods of fifty years was the condition of any
society, except, perhaps, the Nomadic tribes, ever
identical; and, if the Conservatives, therefore,
were now to make laws to prevent the evils of
the manufacturing system, in the nextfifty years,
it is perfectly certain that they would make laws
for shadows. Their ambition, however, is gigantic,
and, under the vague generalities we have quoted,
they endeavour to procure restrictive laws for
manufactures and manufacturers,in order to pre-
vent
fifty years hence the evils which they say
the Conservatives of fifty years ago ought to have
prevented. They want a political rnillenium like
the Chartists; but in their millenium, agriculture,
and what they call healthy commerce, are to
flourish as they did when GEORGE 111. was king.
Our present manufacturing system, founded
" on the steam-engine and other discoveries," is
to be controlled, and, if it be not very obedient, is
to be extinguished. It is great political quackery
to attempt to hasten the progress of society by
legislation, but it is insignificant compared to
the Conservative quackery of making society go
backward till the supremacy of the clergy and
the squires be restored and acknowledged.

It is stated in the Montreal Courier of No-
vember 7, that " Lower Canada does not raise
tiflicient food for its own consumption." Con-
firming this view, we find the Special Committee
of the Legislative Assembly, to which we re-
ferred on Saturday, stating that "all the grain
grown in Canada will not supply the consump-
tion of British North America, and, if' it were
all shipped to England, and the population of
our commercial towns were supplied from the
United States, the quantity of our own so ex-
ported would be very limited for many years to
come." Acting on the same view, the Act for
levying a duty on American corn allows foreign
wheat imported by sea into Canada, for the use
of the fisheries, to come in free of duty. It is
perfectly clear, therefore, that England cannot
get a grain of corn from Canada, except it be
grown in the United States, or except a full
equivalent of corn be imported into, and eon-
sutned in Canada for every quarter of Canadian
corn exported to England. The Ministers must
mean, therefore, by their proposition to admit
corn from Canada duty free to encourage the
importation of corn grown in the United States,
but to force the trade through Canada. The 3s.
duty, the greater expense of carriage than if it
-;.sine direct from the United States, will be
partly labour thrown away, and partly a tax
levied on the consumers of England, for the ex-
clusive advantage of persons whom Tories a short
time back were wont to call the Canadian rebels.

The Montreal Courier adds, " it is impossible
to guard the frontier at all points." The Minis-
terial scheme, therefore, of forcing a corn trade
through Canada will be attended with all the
crimes that generally accompany smuggling on
a large scale. It will undoubtedly admit Ame-
rican corn, but by a roundabout way, and at a
great expense, waste of labour, and increased
crime. By what right does any Minister, or any
Legislature, for the gratification of such puerile
caprice as to force a trade in a particular direc-
tion, dare to cause so much mischief?
Another important consideration is, that the
ports of New York and New Orleans are open
all the year round. We can obtain bread stuffs
from them, if necessary, in winter as well as
summer. The ports of Canada are closed for se-
veral months of the year, and the American pro-
Juce, which, by Lord STANLEY'S scheme, is to be
brought from them, must all come at one pe-
riod of the year, when it may not be wanted,
Would it not be more honourable in the Admi-
nistration, as well as more beneficial 0 the com-
munity, were the Ministers at once to propose to
Parliament to allow the corn of the United
States to be imported into England, on the pay-
ment of a small duty, whether it come from
Quebec, or New Orleans? Such preposterous
and. childish playing at the solemn business of
law making as this scheme of Lord STANLEY'S, or
of the Tory Ministry, has not latterly fallen
under our observation.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 28th
ult. A proclamation had been issued by the
Provincial Deputation of Madrid to the inhabi-
tants of the capital, expressing its confidence in
their zeal and devotion to the established Go-
vernment. The capital was quite tranquil.

The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid
Bourse of the 26th ult. at 21 at 60 days, the
Five per Cents. at 26 1-16th cash, and at 27
261 9-16ths at 60 days.

The'Paris papers contain no news from France
hut the accounts in them from Barcelona are sa.
tisfactory, as will be seen from the following te•
legraphic dispatch addressed to the French Go•
vernment

" BARCELONA, Nov. 30, IN THE EVENlNG.—Barce-
lona is about to capitulate to the Regent. The Junta
has ordered the free corps to lay down their arms at
the Atarazanas."

The Quotidienne states from Prague that the
Duke de BORDEAUX is in excellent health, and
is frequently on horseback, either in the riding
school, or taking excursions in the environs of
the city. This journal adds that the PRINCE has
been visited by General LATOUR FOISSAC, who
attended him on his tour in Hungary and Tran.
sylvania, and also by M. GAYARD, the sculptor
of Paris.

The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 29th ult.
publishes a letter from Cannes, stating that Lodi
BROUGHAM had arrived at his chateau in that
neighbourhood, where he proposed to remain
during the winter.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 45... 119 45... 119 25... 119 30
Four per Cents 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50
3 per Cents 80 60... 80 60... 80 55... 80 55
Bank of France 3315 ...3315 ...3315 .. 3315
. ...
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055
...1055 ...1055
5,000 f 5082 50...5082 50...5080
—5OBO
Belgianlgian Bank
Be
1840 lo4i ... 1044 ... 1041 ... 1044
Spanish Active. . 23i ... 2.3 k 23A •
23i
Passive
4
Portuguese Fives 324 .•• 324 ... 32 324
Neapolitan lOB 80... 108 80... 108`80... 108 80
Roman, lO4 ... 104 ... 104 i ... 104 k
RAILWAY SHARES

St. Germain B3O ... 830 ... 830 ... 830
Versailles, R.B 266 25... 2.66 25... 265 ... 265
L.B B2 50... 82 50... 86 25... 86 25
Rouen
Orleans. 615 ... 615 ... 607 50... 607 50
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50

Major Malcolm is hourly expected to arrive in
town with his dispatches from China and the East

Indies.

The India mail will, it is expected, be sent off
this evening.
TILE PRIVY COUNCIL.—The Council for appointing
the time of the meeting of Parliament has not yet
been summoned, but is expected to be held at Wind-
sor Castle at the latter end of the week.
COST OF CONVEYING AMERICAN CORN THROUGH
CAN ADA.—A writer in the Morning Post concocted
a long article yesterday to show that the expense of
conveying American wheat and flour through Canada
would be so great that our agriculturists need not
fear any import from that quarter. The writer was
obviously ignorant of the proposition made by the
Committee of the Canadian Legislature to grant a
drawback on all flour exported from Canada when
the price of flour exceeds 30s. a barrel at Montreal,
which will compensate the difference of cost of con-
veyance. We can at the same time state, on the
authority of the above-named Committee that the
cost of conveying a barrel of flour to Liverpool; from
Ohio through the Erie Canal, is 3s. lid. less than by the
way.of the St. Lawrence. The Committee calculated-
that this 3s. lid., in conjunction with the 3s. duty,