The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-13 00:00:00

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPEItS.

HANOTER, AUGUST s.—Our Crown Prince ties
arrived in good health at Norderney,. where he was
received with great festivity. Our city is tranquil.
We hear of some notes of great Courts that have
been received here in consequence of the events of the
17th and 18th July.

HAMBURG, AUGUST B.—We have received the
following communication from a respectable quarter :
" Colonel Count Razewski has been sent to Constan-
tinople by the Emperor of Russia to congratulate the
new Sultan on his accession. It is believed that Count
Alexis Orloff will shortly go to Constantinople on a
special mission.

,
M. Ruhmann, and the other Magistrates of Hanover,
have sent a note to the Hamburg correspondent stating
that the proceedings against them have commenced,
and requesting that no accounts of them may be pub-
lished at present, as any such accounts might be in-
accurate, as the proceedings are not public, and they
will themselves, as soon as the proceedings are over,
give them all the publicity allowed by the laws.—
Hamburg Papers, Aug. 9.

DUTCH FUNDS.—A MIIITHADAM, A [YOUNT IP.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cisnt
Ditto, ditto 6 per cent.
Amen Syndic, 4)4 percent. 96% 9714
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Blli ti2c
Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent.......,
Ditto (1832 and hip 5 per cent......
Ditto 1837, S per cent. —
Loan 12141, 5 per cent .... ........... .. .
L)whange on London, One mons.- ."
"*"" 1: 4(.)5 103%
Two
dionthe
--1)"(414 -81P7.
August 10
s,.
A,.E.LEP. AN I. UNDS—BarasuLa, AUelrer 10.
.ual Debt, 25i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Cent ...... .. 71%
Society of Commerce, 4N, per Cent llB
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........... ......„ 74%
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, August 11.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VICWNA, Aro 2
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Fear per Cents.... ........... ........... ......... .. .........
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares l5l 8
.—Altgenteine Zeitung. August 7.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEaLIN, AUGUST e.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% 103 &,
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1031 102 tn.-6
bxchange on London, three months —
—Prussian State Gazette. August 7.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, At 8.
_.._ _

Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares , 15t.:3 1500
An 10-Russian Loan 107% 107%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate .....,
Inscription, Ist Series..
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97% 97%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch n ctual Debt, 2 pe, Cent. 54 _
Ditto 5 per Cent II I —..
Polish Bond.
New iicket
Anglo- I vanish Loan, 3 per Cent 71% %
71
Norwegian Lo4u, IS3I, 4 per Cent...... lOl% _—
EXCHANGES OK LONDON.
aumanao, Am. 9.-13. sN.—Two months, 11 334
PETRILSBURGiI' A nu. 2. —Two reollths, 39% N, .
C,IIIISTIANIA, JULY St-.. Three months, 4 16.
sTocaitoma, Aug. a.--Serenty days, 11. 34
!luau a. Ave.tick. O. —Three months, 6,41 x,
14k?s1c, A 5.—TwQ XOCi ths,-6, 14.

Mr. Oliphant, of Condie, has come forward in
the Lih..eral interest for the vacancy in the representation
of the city of Perth, caused by the resignation of the Hon.
i Arthur Kinnaird,

SIR,—I know nothing more of the affair of the late
Lady Flora Hastings than what has been in the papers ;
but I think the great culpability rests with the physician.
We are informed that a most virtuous lady in the. train of
the Queen's mother was indisposed and that she increased
in size, that she was attended by the first physician of the
Queen and the Queen's mother for a considerable time,
and that at length two married Peeresses of the Queen's
train, and the physician, fancied she might be in the family
way and hinted this to her; nay that the Queen,
of course
after communication with the physician, acted on this
presumption.
If such are the facts, it is plain either that the physician
who attended her so long without knowing her disease
made no inquiry into her case, or that he had made
an inquiry but come to a wrong conclusion. Ido not
see how he is to escape from this alternative.
Now no one can prescribe rationally and conscientiously
who does not first make a scientific inquiry into the nature
and seat of the disease for which he is to prescribe—who
however
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first in
examining whatever
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mb
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does not first carefully make what is termed in medicine a
diagnosis. No sound practitioner would order a swelling,
poulticed, rubbed, opened, blistered, or treated in any
other
lated to inform him of its nature ; and he will during the
whole treatment ascertain from time to time how far its
condition may be changed, so as to require a modification
of treatment. A practitioner is not justified in prescribing
for an enlargement of the body, who does not in the very
first instance ascertain whether it depends upon dropsy,
alt., or a swelling of this organ or of that. Without a
scientific investigation, he might as well toss up a shilling
to settle what plan he shall pursue. Na female, married
or single, humble or exalted, however modest or refined,
objects to a suitable inquiry, by the car or hand, into the
condition of her chest or stomach.
If the Royal physician did not make such an inquiry,
why did he not ? and for what disease did he prescribe ?
If he did, how came he not to distinguish between an en-
largement of the liver and pregnancy ? two sources of in.
crease of bulk so distinct, that I have always thought a
blunder impossible. 'Whichever alternative is true, it is
plain that be prescribed in ignorance, and was unable to
answer the'questions of the Queen and Peeresses or re-
fute their erroneous opinion. They, noticing the unfortunate
lady's enlargement, discussed the cause with the physician.
It was his duty to impress upon them, that, till the cause
of a female's enlargement is ascertained to be pregnancy,
no practitioner breathes such a suspicion to any one—not
even to the patient—or allows such a suspicion to be
breathed, however humble her station. He, however, not
only omitted this, but, because he had not made sufficient
inquiry into the cause of the symptoms, or was incompe-
tent, fancied the possibility of a cause, and, moreover, a
cause destructive of the Lady's reputation.
The great blame rests upon him. The purity of the
Queen's mind, and the necessity for maintaining purity in
the palace, justified her anxiety, and her anxiety was a suf-
ficient excuse for her suspicions; while the first Royal phy-
sician, who had attended the case for months, not merely
did not point out the absence of grounds for suspicion uf
one cause rather than another, but, being culpably as much
in the dark as the Queen, partook of her suspicions, and
did not hesitate to declare them to his innocent patient,
labouring under a disease which, though often curable by
a particular medicine, was being allowed to advance
to a fatal termination ; and, in addition to bodily suffering,
must have been agonising her mind by its peculiar visible
symptoms.

MEDICUS.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.

Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar,
in 111 i, cing Lane, and comparing the same against that of
foreign sugars :

London, August 10, 1839.
The Gazelle of last night quotes the average Per,Cwt.
price of British Plantation Muscovado Su-
gar, exclusive of duty, at
The actual quantity sold by the importers in the week
ending the 6th inst., on which the above price is cow-
puted, consisted of 2,525 hhds., 205 trs., and 77 barrels ;
and not of 3,200 hhds. as ts irnated in the Market.

Foreign Muscovado Sugar raised by free labour has
been sold at from 20s. to 225. per cwt., so that the Briitsh
nation is now paying cent. per curt. above the foreign
value, for all the West India Sugar consumed in it.
Akin:ugh there was a deficiency in the stock of upwards
of 2,0001111dg. and trs. last Tuesday, as compared against
the corresponding week in 1838, yet it should be remem-
bered that the crop of last year was untpually large ; to
compensate, too, for this deficiency of 2,000 hbds. of We t
India, we have a surplus equivalent to 6,000 hhds. in

Mauritius and East India Sugars. The decrease in the
delivery last week was 400 hhds.

We have much pleasure in congratulating the country
upon the escape of the Postage Duties Bill from the vari-
ous forms of Parliament. It is now secure against the
mutilating attacks of its opponents ; we can, therefore,
without danger to its safety and efficacy, and without in-
consistency to our present subject, offer a few remarks
upon the character of the opposition which in vain assailed
it, as well as upon the means best adapted to meet the cer-
the country from the abatement of the charge on letters.
The warmest supporters of the Bill did not hesitate to ad-
mit, that for a time the Post-office revenue would be di-
minished. Some parties limited this time to two or three
years' duration, while others denied rte validity of the
grounds for such an assumption, I^-.1 treated as absurd, the
notion that the increase in al.:, number of letters despatched
under the new system. r;ould attain an extent sufficient to
restore the amount derived from postage to what it had
hitherto been. Notwithstanding these differences of opi-
nion the question was discussed harmoniously until the
Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed his anxiety about
the best mode of providing for the deficit which would in-
evitably occur from the change sought. With that view
he urged the necessity of the House engaging to make
good, by another description of tax, to be named when the
emergency arose, any loss which might result from the al-
teration. It was not until Mr. Rice made this declaration,
and insisted on the condition, that any serious objec-
tion was aimed at the progress of the measure.
his determination to have the guarantee of the House
against any defalcation in the revenue accruing from the
operation of the Bill, became the signal for certain parties
to devise all manner of impediments to it, not because
these parties shared in the alarm of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer concerning a diminution of the revenue—that,
if any, was a secondary consideration with them—but be-
cause they feared that the new, the unnamed tax, might not
be exactly palatable to their interests. The earnestness
with which they pressed Mr. Rice to disclose how be in-
tended to raise the money, on what particular article he ;:n-
-tended to impose a tax, will be fresh in the recollection of
our readers. The Creancellor of the Exchequer k.'new the
drift of his quer'ats, and was wisely silent. 1-le was well
aware that if he alluded to any one object for taxa-
tion, the class affected by that tax would on
account alone most stmmously resist, in and
out of doors, the contemplated change. Let us,
for example, suppose he had yielded to the solicitation
with which he was beset, and had stated that the property
tax would meet the difficulty, then would the wealthy
surely have been arrayed against the measure under dis-
cussion. Had he hinted at a moderate fixed duty on im-
ported foreign corn, the landed interest would have been
up in arms. Or had he declared his intention to be to
admit foreign colonial produce on the same terms 28 Bri-
tish, the West Indian body would have deprecated a re-
duction of postage. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
therefore, betrayed good sense in keeping his own counsel.
The fair light in which to view the Postage question is,
in our opinion, to consider, that for a paramount object, the
revenue raised by it is utterly lost, and that it is now TIC
cessary to provide for the whole amount by other means.
We advocate the abandonment of an injurious and unpo-
pular tax and the substitution of another unotjectionable to
the many ; to serve this turn, a fairly F!,raduated property
tax might answer, provided the intrkacies of the measure
admitted of its early adjustment—but we fear the wolf
would be at the door before such means of pacifying him
could be discussed. A cased duty on imported foreign corn
would never do, ts.lat would be acknowledging that the
staff of life is 'a legitimate article for taxation, a principle
that ouPtit to be, and certainly would be scouted, with the
eu7.:ption of the landlord's, by every voice in the country ;
besides, the nation feels too confident of ensuring the
speedy abolition of the infamous bread tax, to tolerate
even a modification of it. A departure from the co-
lonial monopoly system presents the fairest opportunity
for providing against the apprehended financial difficulty—
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by breaking through this
costly privilege, would acquire more money, much more
than would compensate the anticipated loss; and would,
into the bargain, be conferring an immeasurable benefit
upon the community at large, whose pockets, as we have
repeatedly shown, have been annually robbed of enormous
sums by the Colonists. We refer our readers to our re-
iterated statements in figures, demonstrating and proving
our assertion—that in the price we are compelled to pay
for sugar, coffee, rum, cocoa, &c., we sacrifice yearly to West
India cupidity upwards of four millions sterling. If, there-
fore, the Chancellor of the Exchequer should cause the
extinction of their wicked monopoly, he will secure the
industrious classes of the United Kingdom from beint plun-
dered—he will be the means of their being surolied with
an abundance of good and cheap colonial produce, and he
will compensate the revenue for the Pot",-office duties now
'
relinquished • in short, he will ach'.eve all this, and much
lVest
India interests.
more good, by abolishing an cry:
originated tofarour
ummerre

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Testimoniols on the Patent Spectacles of Mr. I
E. Solorocins, No. 36, Old Bond-street. From Sir An.
',bony Carlisle, F. R. S., President of the Royal College of
Surgeons, and Senior Surgeon to the Westminster Hospi-
tal The Amber Spectacles of Mr. E. Solomons seem
to me likely to afford additional aids to imperfect vision,
and because of their superior refractory power to glass or
other dense materials, they promise to afford new resources
for the construction of spectacles.-_Anthony Carlisle,ammFienescl
F. R. S., Langham-place." From RobeartppleKaavereatetexo
Sergeant-Surgeon to her Majesty
taon and triedodfy theand Ambersoften
the Lenses,
glare theyaonfdlig ht
, as
comfort and relief to the eye than the spectacles in common
r
use.—R. Keste, 15, Albemarle-street " From Dr. J.
Johnson, Physician Extraordinary to. the late King, &c.
:
I have been using and am still using, Mr. E. Solomon's
than any other glasses whichl
Suffolk-place." more pleasant to the aye
Patent Spectacles, and find them /tot
give
John-
son, M.D., 8, have tried.--James

(From Gatignani's Messenger.)
A correspondent at Wiesbaden writes :—" The all-
engrossing subject of conversation here is an attempt,
on the part of the local authorities of 'Wiesbaden to de-
prive the English practitioners of the hitherto unalssailed
privilege of prescribing for their invalid countrymen—a
measure calculated in no small degree to hurt tho repu-
tation of the baths, which owe so much to English ti-
siters, as well as a convincing proof of the short-sighted
policy of the authorities. Two medical men have been
in the habit of giving advice to their countrymen at the
baths for the last two or three seasons ; Dr. Downie,
the physician of her Royal Highness the Landgrasine
of Hesse Homburg, who is resident at Frankfort, and
Mr. Edwin Lee, author of " The Mineral Waters of
the Continent." These gentlemen have met with no
molestation in the discharge of their professional duties
, this season. The native physicians, ho
I one in particular, finding that, notwithstanding the
increasing number of English resorting to the bitlis,
the number of his patients did not increase so rapidly
as he expected, was pleased in the true spirit of bro-
therly love, to represent to the municipal authorities
so early as the month of April, that it wos more
thin probable that the physician of the British mission
at Frankfort would, as formerly, visit his friends and
patients at the baths during the ensuing season, and
that, notwithstanding a high personage having declared
at his own table that he would not intrust the life
of his favourite poodle dog to his conseiller de me-
dicine, still he thought himself perfectly competent to
exert his skill in internal and external drenching upon
objects of so little value in his eyes as her Britannic
Majesty's subjects, and thus save his
.confrere the fa-
tigue consequent upon his frequent drives from Frank-
fort.. The learned. Sangrado of Nassau founds his
right of complaint upon an ancient law at one time ea-
forc(d in the Duchy to the effect that no foreigner
should be permitted to exercise the art of
.medicine.
within the bounds of the principality, a law a Inch, if
it ever existed, has long since fallen into disuse, since
the Duchess of Nassau has always had the attendance
of an accoucheur from Heidelburg. Upon Dr. --'s
representation, the police issued an order to the apothe-
caries, forbidding them to make up the prescriptions of
Dr. Downie and Mr. Lee, thus at once depriving them
of the power of affardingany efficient assistance totheir in-
valid friends. Finding, however, that they were influenced
more by the cause of humanity than the vauntling
threats of official underlings, and that the medicine-
chests of their friends, which were kindly placed at
their disposal, contained drugs of a better quality than
German electuaries, or Dr. ---'s powerless liniments,
they continued their visits as usual. To-day, however,
they have been again summoned before the head of the
police, who obligingly informed them that they must
quit the town in 48 hours. Thus, then, in thertne-
teenth century, the authorities of Nassau attempt to
force upon English subjects a physician who knows no
language but his own, and who is held in such merited
contempt by fellow-citizens that the poorest inhabitant
of the town would prefer suffering a lingering illness to
being sent to an hospital which passessed the advantage
of numbering the metlizinal rath among its medical 1,
visitors. The next oppressive measure which 1 Anil
have the honour to communicate will, in all probability,
be an edict prohibiting the English from attending
divine service according to the rites of their church."