The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

A Commissary of Police went on Saturday with a wri t
to the resipence of a Mr. G , who arrived at Paris a
few weeks since, and there seized numerous papers
and various articles, among which was a tele-
graphic alphabet, traced upon an an autozincographic
plate, from which several copies appear to have been
taken. In his examination, which took place almost
immediately, Mr. G declared that what he was re-
proached for haying in his possession was nothing more
than a series of signs agreed on between himself and
various houses with which he has commercial relations.
We have received the Barcelona journals to the 21st:
The Captain-General Van Haien, had just received from
the Regent the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic.
El Popular, a republican Journal of Barcelona, fol-
lowing the example of its colleague, El .Huracan of
Madrid, has suspended its publication.—Commerce.
BOURS—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 29.
lint Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Prier.
french 5 per Cents llB 55 .. 118 55 .. 118 30 .. 118 35
3 per Cent, 79 40 -. 79 -10 ... 79 20 ... 79 25
lank 01 France
Laffitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1017 50 ...1017 50 ...1017 50
...lel/ 50
5,000 f. Shares 5027 50 ...50Z0 ...5027 50 ...5030
Belgian Bank
1811
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cent:., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 1051 q ... ler%
Varnish Active 25% ... 24%
Passive 55% 5% ... 5%
Neapolitan
Roman....
5H103% ... 103% ...103%
g AitILWA 01
ARES,
St. Germain ....... 847 50 ... 887 50 ... 885 ... ::5
Versailles. R. n 3lO ... 240 337 50 337 50
L. 13 2OB 75 208 75 208 75 ... 208 75
fit ;50
252382 g
252370
50 522307
50
Rouen ..... 505 ..• tO5 49S 75 ... 498 75
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale

THE ENEMIES OF 41FROVEMENT.--4.‘ IV said
Mr. Chrikopher; " at the Meeting. held at Bos-
ton, on IVednesday, of the Boston Agricultural
Association, " it were true that foreign corn
could be bought for 265., the lowest maximum
duty compatible with safety to agriculture ought
to be, as he had before said, 30s. the quarter."
Just in proportion, therefbre, as the Americans,
or any other people, by skill and care, may grow
corn at a less and less cost, just so must the
landed aristocracy insist on raising the duty and
preventing the result of their exertions from
reaching the people. Suppose the Americans
were to pass a law, that, just in proportion as our
manufacturers invented and improved machinery
and produced cotton-cloth cheap, just in that
proportion should the import duty on cotton-
cloth be raised in America. Should we not,
would not all mankind say, such a system was a
relic of the grossest ignorance and barbarity ?
Now, our Corn-law, as described by Mr. Chris-
topher, is still more foolish and mischievous than
such a supposed law in the United. States, inas-
much as food is more essential to .existence and
wellbeing than:cotton-cloth.
Mr. Christopher; at Boston, spoke of a clamour
against the growers of Corn. No such clamour
has been got up or has existed. The clamour has
been against the owners of rent, who have no
more to do with growing corn than with preserv-
ing the sweetness of the atmosphere.
GOOD AND BAD LAWS.--A writer in a Tory
journal, one of your would-be sagacious philoso-
phers, observes, " that almost all, our good laws are
older than the Revolution of 1688. Almost all
our bad laws have been-enacted since that period."
This philosopher fimrets to mention how many
very bad laws, enacted prior to 1688, have been
abolished since that period. What laws we now
have, of a prior period, have been carefully pre-
served from amongst many bad
laws, and pre-
served because they are supposed to be good.
That a prodigious number of bad laws have been
passed since 1688 we do not deny;
many of the
good laws, passed in the same period, are those
which repealed the bad laws of a former period,
and they are quite tbrgotten. The case may beil-
lustrated by a comparison with literature. A few
books, of great worth, are selected and preserved
from amongst the mass which the stream of time I
washes away. If a man were, therefore, to say
that all the good books of the world were writte
before 1700, and that all the bad books have bee.

written since, lie would in—ak-ea similar assertion
as to literature to that which the Tory writer
makes as to laws. At the same time we hail
with pleasure the admission from a Tory, that
the Statute-book is crowded with bad laws.
PROTECTION AFFORDED By THE CLERGY.—
One idea now inculcated on society
by the lovers
of priestcraft, is that the priesthood protects the
people from the oppressions of the upper classes,
and notably
from the governors of society. We
are grateful to the Tories for the admission that
protection is now necessary against the rulers of
society, but it is a mistake to suppose that the
priesthood, who no longer possess much indepen-
dent power, and are here the servants of the
State, can give such protection. The priests are
now the allies of those- against whom it is pre.
tended they protect the people. They protect
them as the dog protects the sheep from the
wolf, to deliver them with greater• certainty to
the knife of the butcher. The people will be
grateful for the admission that they need protec-
tion against their pretended protectors, but they
Will cast about to protect themselves.

Address, should the Speech afford the opportunit
we have described.

New York Journals to the 10th inst. have
been received this morning. They contain no
political news of importance. We subjoin the
latest account of the state of the Money Market :
The sales of the Stock Board presented the usual fea-
tures, and prices fluctuated to some extent. Delaware
and Hudson fell 1 per cent; Indiana Bonds,i; Harlem,k;
Long Island rose*. At auction a sale of 3,571 shares of
Harlem Stock were sold at 94 a 9i, which is 4. to a above
the market rates. They were bought in by kr. Gourlie.
This Stock was pledged with J. Ward and Co., to secure
two loans of 44,500 dol. each, made in 1835 and 1837.
These loans fell due Oct. 10, 1841, and Jan. 10, 1842.
They were issued at 50 per cent., consequently, the 3,571
shares amounted to 89,000 dols. This stock is now
transferable, and forms tin addition to the quantity upon
the market.

The packet ship Albany, for Havre, carries out 96;000
dols. in specie.
The ship Albany, which sailed to-lay for Havre, car
ries out 96,000 dols. in specie.
S ALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$2,000 Corporation Bonds ............
2,000. Illinois Bonds, IVO s 15......
4,000 Indiana Bonds
150 Shares Delaware and Hudson
50 Ditto Mechanics Bank .......
25 Ditto Phenix 8ank........__
50 Ditto Farmers' Loan...
50 Ditto Ohio Life and Trust 55
10 Shares Merchants' Exchange Bank . 25
10 Ditto New York and Erie H . . 25
25 Ditto Canton C 0... ................. ...s 30 19
25 Ditto Mohawk R. R.... ......
......
975 Ditto Harlem...
100 Ditto L Island R .
50 Ditto Stonington 1t...........
10 Ditto New Jersey ......................
SECOND BOARD.
100 Shares Harlem.... ..........
2,000 Ditto Indiana
2,000 Ditto Illinois..

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We have received Madrid Papers of the 22d
inst. There was a stormy debate going forward
in the Chamber of Deputigs on the Address, but
no other news of interest.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday
have all reached us. The tedious debate in the
Chamber of Deputies on the Address has at last
been brought to a close. It was adopted on Sa-
turday by a majority of`Bl---10 votes being given
for, and 156 against it. On Friday M. BILLOUT
made a regular attack on the Government on the
subject of the Press prosecutions. The Ministers
pretended to be taken by surprise, and never
did they make a more miserasle defence. We
shall to-morrow endeavour to do justice to the
spirited conduct of the Opposition on this oc-
casion.

The Augsburgh Gazette says :—" We learn from St.
Petersburgh that Count Cankrin has left the Adminis-
tration of the Finances, and that the department is to be
divided into different sections, each having • its own
chief."—lt is reported that on the 13th inst., New Year's
Day in Russia, the Empress of Russia was so much in-
disposed that no Court was held.
" The Emperor of Russia," says a letter from St. Pe-
tersburg, " has resolved to allow several more Poles who
took part in the revolution to return home. Among
them is Prince Oginski, who, for several years past, has
subsisted in France as a bookbinder."
A letter from the Island of Bourbon, written on . the
13th October to the Messager, Says :—" The interesting
solemnity of administering the communion to 120
blacks has just taken place at St. Denis, in the presence
of nearly all the public functionaries.—At the Assizes of
St. Denis just finished, two persons have been con-
demned for ill-treating slaves : the one to twelve months'
imprisonment, and the other to the same durance for
five years. Both are deprived of the right of possessing
slaves for ten years."
The Court of Cassation will be engaged to-day in
considering the appeal of M. Ledru Rollin and M.
Haureau against the decision of the Court of Assize of
the Department of the Maine and Loire.
The affair of the Gazette de France and the National
is fixed for the 14th of February.
The Moniteur of yesterday, the 28th, publishes the
following note, the object of which is difficult
to divine :--" Sweden, as one of the eight contracting
Powers at the Congress of Vienna, had taken part in the
act, by which it was agreed, in the month of February,
1815, to arrange measures for the total suppression of
the negro slave-trade. On the 15th of June, 1814, a
treaty to this effect was concluded and signed at Stock-
holm with England. Subsequently the accession of
Sweden and Norway to the conventions of 1841 and'lB33
between France and England was proposed by them,
but declined at Stockholm, where on the 21st of May,
1836, a direct. treaty with France was signed, con-
formable to that which has been concluded with Eng-
land."—Constitutionnet.