The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-16 00:00:00

UONTAGION AND QUARANTINE.

The question as to the existence of pestilen-
tial contagion, which is now so generally agitated, may be thus
succinctly stated-:.—Diseases which are capable of aff'ecting the
same person repeatedly, if they were also contagious, would
never- cease until communities were extinguished. Plague and
other epidemic diseases are capable of affecting the same person
repeatedly ; communities continue to exist—these diseases can-
not, therefote, depend upon a specific contagion.. This im-
portant deduction is confirmed by every variety of 'proof, posi-
tive,-negative, analogical, circumstantial, and ad 'a bsu r um.

Again : Either epidemic diseases have been proved to de.
pend, or not to depend, upon a specific contagion ; or the
question remains undecided. In the first case, as these diseases
are capable of affecting the same person repeatedly, quarantine
ought to be augmented in duration, increased in vigour, and
universally extended. In the second, it ought to be wholly
abolished, as being without an object : and, in the third, an
unbiassed inquiry into facts ought to be forthwith instituted.
Those whet differ respecting the two former, will agree respect.
ing the latter proposition.

The only. practical test of the value of testimonial evidence
•
upon this snbject, with whatever good faith, and with hOwever
honest intentions it may be brought forward, A tjt result of
absolute contact of the sick with persons in health upon an ex-
tended s'cale ; which experiments I am at all times ready and
willing to repeat, in those countries where, from the frequent
recurrence of pestilenCe, due facilities are afforded.
. C1141214LS ACLEAN.

given quantity" than
A %mit AL FOOD.-:It is true that animal food
tables and, in proper state of preparation vege . , ,it is almost
contains a greater portion of nutriment in a
action of the ch lo •
adapted for the imme,fiate ac Y -poetic viscera;
but the digestive functions of the human syster, become pre-
maturely exhausted by constant action, and the , ,
wtioie system
eventually sinks under great or uninterrupteit excivine
nr.
If;'
plain animal food were taken but once.a dAy,
4'.4.i
men would
substitute for the various ragouts,, with which modern tables
are so abundantly furnished, wholesome vegetables
water,-,—or a weak fermented beverage for the more spa pure
deleterious
potations of distilled liquors, we should see health tvalki,m
in -the streets that are now crowded with
.the bioatett victim;
of voluptuous appetite. Millions of. Gentpos
,have tivs-w ~,
- --to an
advanced age, without having tasted any thing that ever
pos-
sessed-life, add have- been wholly free from a chain of inoat ti
es
Arabs
have scourged every nation on the Globe : the wand-eiini,.
Arabs, whe have traversed the barren desart of Sahara; aubp
sisting an the scanty pittance:of milk froM the half
farnistred
camel that carried them, liaie seen 200 years roll round without
a day of sickness.—(Medical Alvin,...)

PA It L I AAI ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.:—WEnrraspAY, JUNE

" Appeals were heard .to-day by the Lord. Deputy.—" Forbes
. 'fioni the Court`of S'esldoil; finally' heard ; as
Was also the appeal of " Jeffhty and others ;" but judgment
seas deferrpci'm both' eases.

•Lord roge' four o'clock, and, at a quarter to five,
the iidrd'Ct►sntellor came into the house. _ _

fONTIt ()SE,' 'with Ilia, wand of office,, re-
pei'k.ttiltatitis' • Majesty had been graciously pleased to order
the'Dlpi:tchifroni. Sir .Thbrnas Maitland, as moved for, to be
laid 'befitre theliciuso. • " - • -

• The 1:011.thlif ANC EL 1.011 presented a petition front. the
Attornies orChelterrham, •in Gloucestershire, praying that the
County'Courts' Hill-might not pas,i'intti draw ; anct a 'similar
petition was presented byr the:NAbid and learned Lord. from
James Preston; an Attorney. in the' County' of Stafford:
LOrd DA CR E presented a• petition 'from some' fridiviaual,
Against the indemnity' clause contained in' the Lunacy Traverse
Bill.

The Earl of DONOUGHMORE was undersLood to cop-
'plain of are delay that had taken place in forwarding and print-
ing the Reports of their Lordships' Committee on the State of
Ireland.

I.Jrion the motion of the EarIfofSHEPTESBURY, thefiol-
diets' Effects Bill, the Canada Tenures Bill, the Limerick
Water Supply Bill, the Piracy Yessels.Bill, the Stratford-upon.
Awiti Railway Bill, the 'Brighton' Improvement Bill, and the
Irish Imperial Mining • Company Bill,' Were severally read a
third tithe, passed; and messaged to the Commons.
The. Earl of HAREWOOD Presented .a petition:from some
place in'the vicinity of Leeds; in favour of the County COurts
••-

The Earl of LAUDER DA LE'pretzented a petition,,froth an
individual,•against some clause, or clauSes, in the 'Equitable
Loan 13111.=Referred to the Committee now-sitttng.
A petition-was presented 'on behalf of Mrs. Sullivan, in the
divoree'case still-pending,. who prayed to be heard by Counsel,
at their Lordships' Bar, against the Bill ; and Counsel. were
directed to be heard against the said Divorce Bill.
Mr. Johnson, from-the'Chief Secretary's Office in Ireland,
presented a Report from the Commissioners for Education in
Ireldnd, and other papers; pursuant to older.--Adjourned.

lIOUSE OF COMMONS

The SPEAKER.LOOk the Chair at.four o'clock, and proceeded
to count the House, when, there being but 16 Members pre-
sent, the House adjourned. - • •