The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-05 00:00:00

too many instances. When thi:, frightful malaf!y
can so readily be obviated oy the owners of clots
being compelled either to prevent them from
running unmuzzled about the streets, or else to
confine them altogether at home, we are sur-
prised that some such measure is not adopted.
The Legislature should take the, affair seriously
in hand ; Sir R. PEEL, as head of the home
government, should give it hi; earnest attention ;
for the lives of his MAJESTY'S subjects are not
hourly to be placed in jeopardy by the culpable
negligence of individuals. While on this sub-
ject we may mention that the LORD MAYOR

has at length been induced to issue a public
notice to the owners of dogs, the particulars of
which will be found in another column. The
following extract respecting this dreadful visita-
tion is from the Lancet of to-day :
" Every method of treating this horrible disease which
has of late been described in the newspapers and medical

journals has failed, and the whole range of the materia
medico does not comprehend a known cure. The only
safe and certain preventive, is an immediate and free exci-
sion of the wounded part. A tent may afterwards be
introduced to make the wound suppurate, but this is not
at all necessary, if excision be properly performed. Great
care should be taken that the edge'of the knife does not
come in contact with the moibific poison ; otherwise, in
making the incisions, the mater will become diffused be-
yond the original seat of injury. Where the knife cannot
be safely made use of, fused potash' will be found at once
the best substitute, and the best caustic that can be em-
ployed."

The following sensible observations which we
find in the Times, on the subject of General
Mourning, are so much in unison with our own
dews that we hesitate not to adopt them. If
there must be a symbol of General Mourning,
for it is only symbolic of etiquette—not generally
expressive of real woe—let the plan used in the
Army and Navy be adopted in civil life—a piece
of crape on the arm—and then the demise of
Royalty will not entail a lasting evil upon those
branches of our national industry, which are at

present languishing from the very apprehension of
such a calamity. Thus the demise of Royalty,
like a two-edged sword, cuts &fore and after
the event—a circumstance that cannot be con-

.emplated without sorrow, even by those destined
:o occasion the distress, for
Can flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ?

" The remarks of a correspondent on the mischievou
effects of general mournings, and the extracts which he
has enclosed to us of letters and declarations from various
parts of the country on the same subject, ought, we think,

to be read with attention.
" The merits of this question lie within a narrow com-
pass. The principal support of all the British working
classes, who gain a livelihood by the manufacture of
articl• s of clothing, is undoubtedly the home consump-
tion of such articles;—of fancy goods especially, few or
none are exported ; and if in the home market there be
no demand for them, the manufacture is at once extinct.
" In every general mourning, therefore, as it cads for
scarcely any fancy goods, a temporary extinction—that
is, a comple•e suspension—of that department of British
industry, and of wages and profits for those who live by
it, is the invariable consequence of the orders issued by
the Court.

" This is really an evil which ought to be remedied.
It aggravates a formal into a real melancholy, and re-
vives the worst barbarities of Paganism in its worst ages,
by sacrificing hundreds of living victims on tie tomb of
each chief that expires.
"It would be humane and even magnanimous in
George IV. to command the immediate issue of a regula-
tion for abolishing to all future times this injurious and un-
kindly practice, so far as the continuance of it can be un-
derstood to- depend upon Royal authority. Those who
deem it proper to wear mourning for Princes, as a mark
of private attachment or respect, will always have the pri-
vilege of doing so without hindrance. But why force
such trappings and suits of woe on persons who neither
feel the sentiment nor exhibit the demonstration of it with
alacrity ? Is there not something undignified and obtru-
sive in a mandate from the Royal Family to mourn for
one of its members, whether we like it or not ? In no
other country of civilized Europe does such bad taste dis-
cover itself. But in England, though we boast of making
our own laws, our usages are made for us, and they are
often fit only for children or slaves."