The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-21 00:00:00

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•_LONDON ELECTRICAL SOCIETY.
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TUESDAY, OCT. 19.—The Chairman announced that
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' 'Secretary then read a translation from Les.Archiors de
.VElectrkite• of " Observations upon the 'Elect.rie EWee;s
of the Gymnotus," by Professor eichonbein. The dut,!,,t,
after•briefly giving the history of animal. cledtrieit
.states that "during his sojourn in London; in U-.
autumn of .1839, he had. one' of those. opportunities
rare, and consequently so precious for a s'!,;losr.plies.
of being able to observe a living gynsnotne and to ea-
,uit it to some experiments." lie describes the experie
inents, which, as he says, are sindluysto those already
published by Farraday, and then mentions sense of the
opinions advanced in explanation of:itliis extraordinary
power. With respect to th 3 analogvsaid to exist between
`the electric-organ and Volttes.pile, to says, that'" the
substances of which the oegan is: contwised pre eant
au
electro-motive character so inconsidesable, that in-what-
ever Manner they are employed or united; they are, in-
capable of producing alone electriettl effects cwoparah'h,
to those which we see .produced ;Neje!' so much tactiity
by t} living fish." lie says thaqi" the; voltaic enactobtained' by Sotit:i Observers, when tiely have arranged
in :a pile substances like those sv4t4oll forte the electric:
organs of the fish, have been real!, ,so feeble, that under
either of these relations, physudygical, chemical, or
physical, they cannot be taken late consideration." if
we du adopt the theory -uf Voltsqshow can we connect
with this the fact that a living gyniniqus is in a condition
to produce on the human body .:iffects more energetic
than thoSe produced by a batter?of a hundred pairs,
very strong, and formed of the beet electrc,rnotors? -We
hare not space to follow the
.author through his eery
interesting reasonings on this so! jeets.but•cannot forbear
inserting the conclusion he gives. in says—" The true
cause of these phenomena is-still completely eliseure, and
must neither be sought iii the physical or chemical con-
stitution, nor in a determinate organization of coital:,
parts of these animals ; but that there exits; withoe
our being able at present to peneire,i,o the mode, an f
timata connexion bet Ween the vital eetiene dependent- e-,
the.:svl;l of the fish, and the phv iUteseeentsiehleh
these vital actions produce. 7

CO NIMISSkpN OF BAN h. }ZUPTCY.

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BIEWATOII.kM, OCT. 20.--6omo mollalk ago 77re ---I*k
contained an account of the Apprehension and committer':
of William Dalton Dauncey, irominster, a young -a-issi.
-aged 22 only, charged with feloniously ribs: yowling fr,4ir
his creditors, and takiwv'.refuge upon tha:Continsnt, i
stead of surrendering to his fiat of banki(rptcy. k I
b.? recollected that the bankrupt, who for a perioll 0 ~
year and three-quarters occupied the 13ordesley
Atlas mills, was taken by Superintendent Steplion.s-1.1-- it
ball at Cuxhaven, and was afterwards own:I-tilted Co Iti'be
his trial at the last Warwick Spring Assizes, :Intt ovrin
to' an objection, grounded upon the invalidity•of ihe
notice served at the •late residence of the kykrupe
when the fiat was lissued, he was, under the directlon of
Mr. Justice Matteson, acquitted. The creditors,
prepared for this result, and determined that
he ' should not escape with impunity; lodged a
detainer against him, and Dauncey was. tre_us-
ferred from the criminal to the debtors' side of War.
wick Lail. He subsequently petitioned the Insolvent
Debtors' Court for his discharge, and the schedule which
he was compelled to file for that purpose has exposeki a
course of reckless proflgacy never before exhibted in
any bankruptcy case iii Birmingham. Dauncey having
been remanded by the Commissioner of the last Insol-
vent Debtors' Court hold at Warwick until the next
circuit, the assignees under his fiat have,- within the..-. 8
few days, brought him in custody from Warwick, and
subjected him to a searching examination before the
Commissioners of Bankruptcy at the Waterloo-rooms in
this town:
The Commissioners in attendance were Messrs. Dal-f-
-leet, R. W. Gem, and A. Ryland; Messes. Hodgson and
Colmore attended as solicitors 'for the fiat. The bank-
rupt was unassisted by any professional gentleman, and
throughout his examination appeared perfectly indiffer-
ent as to its disclosures.
The state of Dauncey's circumstances, from what
transpired on his examination, and which will enable the
reader to.form some idea of the " successes" (for there
is little doubt-he has been eminently successful) of this
juvenile bankrupt are as follows :
Dauncey was in business about a year and three quar-
ters, and during that period he contracted debts to the ,
amount of 19,4131. Bs. ; realised a profit of .3,000/., and
1,0001. capital to begin business with ; amounting toge-
ther to 23,413/, towards which his assets, above stated,
amount only to 1,668/, leaving a deficiency of 21,745 L
The insolvent, on being asked to account for such a
large deficiency, gave about twenty items, amounting
altogether to 25,8451., in which was included 1,0001. for
travelling expenses, 4001. for the trip to the Continent,
less by gambling at Dunkirk, 370/, loss on a race-horse
at Wurtzen, in Prussia, 701, and money in his posses-
slim when taken into custody, I Is. The bankrupt was
examined at great length, and, being - unable to give
satisfactory answers resiketing many points under inves-
tigation, the Commissioners adjourned his further exa-
mination until Tuesday, the 2d of November.
It was stated by the -solicitor to the-fiat that not mere
than 40/. has as yet been received froin the estate of the
bankrupt, and the assignees are consequently'peesecuting
the inquiry at their own. risk. The faintly of Dauncey
are living in a. style of great respectability in the neigh-
bourhood of Warwick.

THREATENED IVAIt WITH THE
I3URMESE.

None of the hap -newspapers reeeived•by the last
mail appear to have alluded to the prospect of a war
.with the Burmese. We have, however, been favoured,'
with a mercantile-letter of a very late date (the 195,1,-f
August), from Calcutta, whiCh had been *seat, by that
Goveroment express to Bombay, giving an extract Of
a letter just received at Calcutta from Moulmein. It,
is dated the 28th July, and is to'the following effect :
" I know not if you are interested in a Burmese war ;
for, if so., I can tell you that there is now a aiciah
greater chance of one than there ever has been. Instees
of our giving Tharawaddie a thrashing, ho is abtoo tR-9
turn the tables onus, and attack as here. We know
to a certainty that he is assembling an inunease army
for some purpose or other ; artd dl accounts agree that
its destination is southward. It is supposed that the
Chinese have persuaded him to this step. At all events,
all the authorities here, both civil; military, sad naval,
believe that he will be fool enough to make- an attempt
on these provinces ; and every preparation for such an
event is being made by the troops, by the men-of-war
(the Childers), and by the gunzboatS. The whole of
the latter are ordered to be got ready for service, and
fully armed."

ft has long been known that the severe humiliation
which was inflicted upon the Burmese some years ago,
and the loss of the provinces then wrested from them,
has rankled in the mind of their present ruler, Thera-
waddie, andithat he has long been watching for an op-
portunity of retaliating the defects sustained by bit
predecessors on the throne. The writer of the letter
from Calcutta states, that probably a regiment or two
would be sent from that Presidency to Moulmein with-
out del4y.—Manchesler Guardian.