The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-08 00:00:00

the Republic since the year 1815, and a want
of harmony is the natural consequence. The
possession of the Executive Power seems to be
the prize for which they contend, and hence
the slightest incident is taken advantage of for
exciting distrust in the public mind against the
existing Ministers. It is the ►misfortune of all
the South American Governments, that their
Executives are very imperfectly organized, and
want that vigour, and, from frequent changes,
that experience, which are so necessary to their
civil and political consolidation. Buenos Ayres,
unhappily, is not an exception to this remark,
though at the same time it presents some proofs
of au approach towards internal order, which are
not without importance. A law has been passed
for regulating the Liberty of the Press, which
enacts severe penalties indeed against licentious-
ness, but is upon the whole founded upon wise
and liberal principles. The army is also repre-
sented to be in an efficient state, and,to be well
clothed and paid, though it has been of late
chiefly and vainly employed in causing the
frontiers to be respected by the savages, who
infest the interior. A proposition has been
made in Congress for entering into treaties
with them, and purchasing from them, after the
example of the United States, those tracts of
country to whicl► they can show a just claim.—
Although Buenos Ayres has been virtually inde-
pendent for upwards of fourteen years, yet it
still wants a body of laws for the regulation of
the various transactions between man and man.
We merely mention this fact in order to give a
just idea of the degree of civilization at which
that State has already arrived. It has nothing to
do with the question of independence, for that is
decided, and will remain so, by the utter debility
of the parent country, which increases in the
same ratio that the energies of the new States are
gathering strength and unfolding their inexhaust-
ible resources.

Emontimo ros.rd
French Papers to the 6th inst., and the Elate
of Monday, reached us last night by Express.
They contain fresh details of the triumphs of the
Greeks, which are no longer denied in, any quar-
ter, " The sea," says an article from Corfu,
given by the Journal des Mbals, " is once more
covered with the wrecks of the Ottoman fleet,
and the shores of the Archipelago 'resound with
cries of ' Victory to the Cross !"l'he intrepid
Canaria, the hero of Greece, set the Turkish fleet
on fire during the night of the 24th and 2.5 th of
this month (July), and only the Captain Paella
with a small number of his vessels, succeeded in es-
coping and taking refuge in the Gulf of Smyrna.
This is briefly what we have learned on the subject
of this great catastrophe. Greece shall be free by
her own means." This evidently relates to the
second action which had been mentioned some
days since in the Moniteur, and it is corroborated
by the fact already stated from various quarters,
that the Captain Pacha, with part of his fleet,
had retired to the waters of Smyrna. If the pre.
vious accounts are collated together, it will ap.
pear that the dispersiou of the Ottoman armament
must have been complete, for some of the ships
bud been met flying in the direction of Samos,
whilst others had sought shelter at Enos in the
vicinity of the Dardanelles. The military career
of the new Captain Podia may therefore be con-
sidered as terminated. It has been nearly os
sanguinary, and fully as short as that of his
predecessors. Success smiled upon him at first,
as it did upon the others, but it only led to equal
barbarities, and Providence has not permitted
that men who remained insatiate with blood,
and to whom the sacrifices of the past could not
teach mercy, should escape condign punish-
went. If any difference has been made, it
has been one of a personal nature, The Pacha
who purposely gave up the whole population
of Scio to the flames and to the sword, perish-
ed a few days after, and his ship was blown
into atoms with all its crew. The present
Commander, who wished, but could not restrain
the furious cruelty of his troops, has seen
them all destroyed, and many of his vessels con.
sunned, but has personally escaped. There is
therefore a measure in the chastisement inflicted,
and this duo apportionment of justice may be re-
garded us an additional proof, if any were want-
ing, that this great contest for Liberty and Reli.
gion proceeds under the especial guidance of the
Almighty, and can no more he checked by the
brute force and wild daring of the Infidels, than
by the open indifference, or secret hostility of
Christian Powers.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
In these days, when a restless spirit of inquiry
and doubt Seems to prevail to so alarming an
event, and when the most revered opinions are
challenged with unblushing audacity, It is peat.
Harty gratifying to observe, the tenacity with
which a part of our follow-citizens here and
there still cling to the " wisdom of our ancestors."
In the account of an inquest on the death of a
man in Birmingham, who became it 1114140 from an
apprehension of Hydrophobia, which appeared
in this Paper on Saturday last, a Mr. Alcock,
painter, states, that be " discovered the feet of
the unfortunate man sticking straight out of an
iron furnace or vat. Witness, with the assistance
of others, pulled the unfortunate man out. He
was not then dead, but expired a few minutes at*.
terwards. The vat was more, than half full of
blood and water ' • when witness pulled the unfor.
innate man out of the vat, a number of persons,
instead of lending a helping hand, kept calling out
" Come away, take care of yourself, you'll be bit."

The opinion that a man who has been bit by a mad
dog, will in turn bite every thing animate or in-
animate that comes in his way, and thereby com-
municate the madness to the former, and that if
a dog not mad bite a person, should the dog
chance afterwards to become rabid, the bitten
person will become rabid also,----has been handed
down from the remotest antiquity, and is deeply
rooted in a large class of his Majesty's subjects.
Prudent people, who did not employ their rea-
son in questioning received opinions. but as a
guide to their actions, used to take the precau-
tion of killing every dog that. bit them, by way
of guarding against its possible madness at some
future period, and the consequent derange-