The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-08 00:00:00

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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PARIS, Saturday, August 8.

Le Pays announces that his Excellency, M. de
la Tour d'Auvergne, Ambassador of France at
Rome, is now expected immediately from Plom-
bieres, but it adds that the Prince will rest some
time at Paris before returning to his post.
Le Siecle directs attention to the announcement
made by the Revue de l'lnstruction Publique that
it will henceforth contain, what it has ceased to
contain for the lost few years, to wit, a political
department, or, as we have it here in England,
leading articles.

HEINRICH HEINE was a man who could say
things like this:—"Pouvez-vous ?'' His doctor
asked him one day, when he was almost at his last gasp ;
"sifiler," as every one knows, having the double meaning
of to whistle and to hiss :—H6las! non," was his whispered
answer; " pasmeme une comedic de M. Scribe!"

"TOOTH DRAWN WITH A BRADAWL was in
a country place, writes a dentist, some distance
from a town, when an unfortunate sufferer came to me in
an agony of pain from toothache. Hexing no instrument
at hand, I advised her to go to the nearest doctor and ask
him to remove it. She made the round of all the doctors
and chemists in the neighbourhood, but not one among
them would touch the tooth. Finally she returned to me,
and prayed that I would "take the tooth out somehow."
What was to be done ? The woman was nearly mad with
pain and disappointment. I selected a bradawl from a car-
penter's tool-box, and extracted the molar. Upon another
and very recent occasion I was obliged to have recourse to
an oyster-knife for the same purpose.
THE PRINCE OF WALES OWNER OF NEWSTEAD
ABBEY I—A rumour is current in usually well-informed
circles that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has
purchased the mansion and estates of Newstead, Notts,
formerly the seat of the noble bard, Lord Byron. After
the death of Col. Wildman the estate passed into the hand;
of Mr. Webb, who, it is said, has sold it to his Royal High-
ness. The rumour is generally believed in Nottingham,
and has appeared in one of the local newspapeis.—Court
Chronicle,.

AN IRISH LIBEL CASE.—The case of the Queen
at the prosecution of the Mayor of Belfast v. John
Rea, for libel, which has occupied Judge Hayes and a spe-
cial jury for the last ten days, has just terminated. After
being absent about a quarter of an hour the jury returned
into court, and handed in a verdict for the prosecutor on all
the issues. Sentence will not be pronounced, the issue
being trom the Queen's Bench, until the November Term.
The defendant took exception to everything up to the last,
and will carry the case as far as he can,

"Although aged by so many centuries, although
repeated so many times, under so many different
forms, and by the aid of so many deicidal pens,
the negation upon which the Vie de Jesus turns, is
none the less afflicting for that reason to the
Church. Jesus Christ is her God. Jesus Christ is
her Founder. Jesus Christ is her spouse. Jesus
Christ is her treasure. By all these titles she
cherishes Him with a love sacredly impassioned.
" What is saddest in all this, is the general calm
with which the appearance of such a work is wel-
comed.

"Formerly the audacities of Arius agitated the
whole world with a glorious indignation.
"In this nineteenth century, on the contrary, M.
Renan reiterates the blasphemies of Arius, and the
universe remains unmoved.

"The work of the aggressor is read with an avidity
that amounts almost to a furor, and the mass of
Christians remains the while mute and motionless.
" The Archbishop himself observes, however, a
little later on in his Pastoral—

" A pious indignation has taken possession of ns
(meaning himself in his archiepiscopal character),
at the sight of this new crucifixion, in which the
critics and the rhetoricians come to condemn our
God, and at the general indifference with which the
public at large assist at this repetition of another
Calvary.

" Would that we were an Athanasius, or a Hilary,
so that we might then give utterance to these senti-
ments with befitting energy and authority.
" Nevertheless,in spite of our nothingness, in spite
of the obscurity of our pen and of our name, it has
been impossible for us to remain silent: and if in
the cries that we have raised there are some that
may appear violent, we do not experience any re-
morse, we do not offer any excuses, because we
cannot conceive that it is possible for one to discuss
without ardour a production the impiety of which
makes the very Heavens shudder to their uttermost
foundations."

M. RENAN'S "VIE DE JESUS."—The fifth edition
of M. Renan's " Vie de Jesus," of which 35,000
copies have been sold in six weeks, has been published in
Paris. Monsigneur Gousset, Cardinal Archbishop of
Rheims, has also condemned the work in a charge to the
clergy and faithful of his archdiocese, issued on the 29th
ult.

Sanitary Condition of the City of London,

Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health for the
City of London, in his quarterly report just pre-
sented to the Sewers Commissioners, states that the
numbers of births and deaths—the former 731, and
the latter 669—were both below the average for
the season—the mean proportion of births for the
corresponding period of the last 10 years being 844,
and the deaths 721. Of the 731 births, 405 were
males, and 326 females ; and of the 669 deaths, 343
were males, and 326 females. The birth-rate of the
City, with the exception of the Eastern union, has
been very small, being 10.2 per 1,000 of the popu-
lation less than the rate in all England, and 8.2
less than that of the whole of London. Though
the deaths are a little below the average for the
quarters of the last 10 years, and below the average
in the town districts of England, they are largely
in excess of that of the whole country. The mor-
tality in the western division of the City is still
excessive, though somewhat less than during former

years. The following is the number of deaths from
different diseases :-85 from phthisis, 24 from tabes
and scrofula, 13 from hydrocephalus, 35 from
teething and the convulsions of infancy, 111 from
pneumonia and bronchitis, 15 from continued fever,
68 from scarlet fever, 28 from small-pox, 16 from
measles, 18 from whooping cough, 21 from croup
and diphtheria, 8 from erysipelas, and 9 from
diarrhoea, only 4 of which were adults. Altogether
there were 132 deaths from tubercular diseases,
111 from inflammatory affections of the lungs,
and 183 from diseases of a zymotic character.
The first of these is below the average for the season
(164), but the last ie considerably above it (131); the
increase having been due to a large mortality from
scarlet fever and small-pox, both of which have
assumed an epidemic character, and have caused
more deaths than'are on record in any quarter for
the last eight years. In the preceding quarter, the
number of deaths from scarlet fever was but 37,
and from small-pox only 5; and in the summer as
well as the autumn quarter of last year, there were
not more than 20 deaths from the former disease,
and 4 from the latter. The increase of small-pox
. .

is attributed, by the Report, to a disregard of proper
and effective vaccination. Out of 508 cases, 108 of
which were fatal, Dr. Letheby was told that in
323 vaccination had been performed in infancy, and
that the operation had taken well; but he believed

that in the most of them the act was merely a for-
mal one—the arm was punctured, and the wound
touched with lymph that had no power in it. He
had ascertained that 114 of the cases had not been
vaccinated, and of that number 44 died. Mr.
Marson, the resident surgeon of the Small-pox and
Vaccination Hospital at Highgate, found that when
small-pox attacked persons who had not been vac-
cinated it killed 1 in every 3; but when vaccination
had been performed the death rate of those attacked
by the disease fell to lin every 15. He found also
that the protective power of vaccination was in
proportion to the way in which it had been done.
If after the operation there remained permanently
upon the arm but one scar or cicatrix the mortality
from the disease was 7.57 per cent; if two scars,
4.23 per cent. ; if three, 2.85 per cent.; and if four,
not one in a hundred died, the mortality being
only 0.74 per cent. But not all who have been
merely cut in the arm, and, as they think, vacci-
nated, were protected ; for though the operation
might have been done in infancy, if no scar re-
mained, 22 per cent. would die on taking the
disease. it was the remaining scars upon the
arm, therciore, which told of the success of the
operation and its protective power. After stating

that there is a great want of means for deter-
mining what relation existed between the number
of children born and the number of successful
operations, Dr. Letheby expresses his opinion that
the vaccinators should be reduced as far as possible,
in order the better to presf rve the lymph, and to
secure greater skill in the operation.

A REMARKABLE CALM ON THE ATLANTIC.—The
vesse:s which arrived at Greenock on Monday report
the Atlantic to have been as smooth as a millpond for days,
without a breath of wind and scarcely any perceptible
swell; and one ship was becalmed for 14 days about 150
miles off the 'ridh coast, a remarkable occurrence in a quar-
ter of the globe notorious for the opposite extreme of weather.
The quiet and unruffled appearance of the ocean is described
to have been such as has seldom if ever been witnessed in
these latitudes by the most experienced shipmaster. This
calm must have detained a number of inward bound ships,
but a breeze having since sprung UP, a whole fleet of ves-
sels aro expected in Channel, and will be in the Clyde in a
day or two, On Tuesday we had an instalment of them in
the arrival of no fewer than seven large vessels.--Glasyou,
Reraid.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF NIMES.
His Pastoral Condemnatory of M, Renan's
" Vie de Jesus."

From the introduction of this noble and effecting
.document (briefly referred to by us yesterday as
having but just now made its appearance), we
translate a few of the more striking passages :
" It is a humiliation for France, because it is an
affliction for the Church.
"To speak plainly, the notion of this work has
been far longer in the world than the writer of it
apparently imagines.

" It was put forth for the first time in writing by
Cerinthe, Ebion and the Nicolaires, blasphemers
contemporary with the Apostles themselves.
"Arius pursued the same course three hundud
years later.

The Socinians followed in their turn after a long
succession of innovators.

"Finally, as You aire came, armed with his brilliant
genius, to precipitate Christ from the throne that
the adoration of ages had erected for him, Strauss,
in our days, has endeavoured to arrive at the same
conclusions by the employment of a false science.
"And M. Roma is nowadays nothing more than
the last link in an immense chain of conspirators,
raised up one after another by the spirit of lying
and impiety against the divine royalty of Jesus
Christ in the world.

"Blasphemy, however, does not exhaust its effirts
any more than does Truth itself,