The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

FRENCH QUARANTINE.

The committee of the Academie de Medecine have
closed their deliberations, and their conclusions tend to a
complete reform in the present French quarantine sys
tem. The question is one of very great importance, and
a revision of the quarantine laws has long been wanted
both in England and France.
The following are tho recommendations contained in
the report of the committee:—

PREdAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN ON THE DE-
PARTURE OF VESSELS FROM A COUNTRY
DEEMED DANGEROUS, FOR FRANCE :
" 1. The captain of every vessel leaving one of the
ports of Egypt, Syria, or Turkey, for France, must be
the bearer of a certificate given him by the French
Consul of the place on the day or on the eve of his de-
parture. To this certificate must be annexed a certifi-
cate from the French medical man, especially appointed
for that purpose, stating the particulars regarding the
general health in the country, of the passengers and the
crew, as likewise the healthy state of the vessel at her
departure.

2. This bill of health is not to be regarded as clean
if, at the time of the departure of the vessel, a pestilence
existed or was imminent in the country.
" 3. The bill is likewise to be deemed unclean (crute)
if individual cases of plague (pestes sporadiques) are of a
nature, either from their number or their intensity, to en-
gender fears for the propagation of the disease.
" 4. In every other case the bill of health is to be re-
garded as clean.
__ _

" 5. Provisionally, and until experience, which we deem
indispensable, as well as regards the public safety as inter-
national relations, having been resolved in a satisfactory
manner evident to all, the question of conveyance, the
trunks containing the linen, the clothes and goods of the
passengers and the crew, are to undergo fumigation dur•
ing the transit, or are to be sealed at the place where
they are shipped, to be opened in a French lazaretto ;
the passengers and sailors are only to be allowed to
retain such clothes as may be actually necessary during
the voyage."

PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN DURING THE VOYAGE AND
AT THE DIFFERENT PORTS STOPPED AT.

"6. Every vessel of the royal navy, each postal
steamer coming from the East must have a medical man
on board ; it were advisable that this medical man be
appointed by the French Board of Health.
" 7. The duty of these medical men on board would
be to see the necessary measures for the preservation of
health attended to, principally respecting the airing of
the vessels; they are to note down every evening the
state of the crew and passengers.
" 8. If duing the voyage the vessel puts in at any port,
the certificates given at the port of departure are to be
viewed by the medical man attached to the board of health
of the place, who is to add his remarks on the state of
health of the place and of the neighbourhood. This
certificate, if deemed requisite, is to be countersigned by
the consul.

"9. The medical man on board is to keep an exact
memorandum of any communications he may hear on
board, as well as of any important circumstance relative
to the state of health.

" 10. As regards those•vesaels which have no medical
Man on board, the Minister of Commerce will draw out
special instructions f the masters, indicating the
symptoms of the pestilence, the remedies to be applied,
the measures to he taken to prevent contagion, act' the
spreading of the disease.
" H. These masters are to note down any remarks or
communications they may receive during the passage, or
at the intermediate ports, as well as a statement of any
illness on board; these notes to be written day by day as
the occasion may require."
PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN ON THE
ARRIVAL IN FRANCE.

" 12. The commanders of vessels in the royal navy and
of the post-office steamers having a Medical man on board.
are to remit to the competent authorities :

" 1. The bill of hearth and annexed certificate received
at the port they started from.
"2. The journal kept by the medical man on board,
stating any case of illness which may have occurred dur-
ing th, passage.
" The medical man on duty belonging to the Board of
Health of the port where the vessel arrives, to whom
the two above certificates are to be given, is to examine
them carefully, and to certify the actual state of health
of the crew and passengero, as well as the healthy state
of the vessel, and is to make know n the result of his
investigations, in a report the form of which will be de-
noted by the administration
" 13. On receipt of the bill of health and certificate
given at the departure of the vessel, of the journal kept
on board, and of the report of the medical man of the
port arrived at, the competent authorities are to deter-
mine the duration of the quarantine, and if needs be,
the special measures to be taken to prevent infection.
"14. For vessels having a medical man on board,
coming from Egypt, Syria, or Turkey, with a clean'
bill of health, the quarantine is to be fixed at ten days,
dating from the departure of the vessel, if during the
passage no symptoms of pestilence have manifested
themselves.

" 15. The quarantine is to be fixed at fifteen days,
dating from the departure of the said vessels, if the bill
of health is unclean,' if before the departure and
during the passage no evil symptoms broke out.
" 16. For merchantmen, not having a medical man on
beard, a quarantine of ten days, dating from their ar-
rival, is to be prescribed if- they have a clean' bill of
health.

" 17. The same vessels arriving with an ' unclean'
bill of health, but without having had any symptoms of
plague on board, are to undergo a quarantine of fifteen.
days, dating from their arrival, and the goods are to be
disembarked.

" 18. Any vessel, no matter what her bill of health
may say, which, during the passage or on her arrival at a
French port, has on board a person attacked by the pesti-
lence or by a suspicious disease, is to be submitted to a
strict quarantine, the ddration of which is to be deter-
mined by the sanitory authorities of the said port.
" The passengers and crew are to be sent to the laza-
retto, and to undergo a quarantine not less than fifteen
and not exceeding twenty days.
" The goods to be disembarked and ventilated ; the
vessel to be thoroughly ventilated, washed, cleaned, and
purified, and is to remain empty at least for one month;
persons are to be appointed to guard the vessel at a cer-
tain di.tance, but they are to be expressly prohibited,
under whatsoever pt.( text, as well as every other per-
son, from g, king on board the vessel in quarantine.
" 19. The bageage and clothes sent to the lazaretto,
having been seated at the port of departure, are to be
ventilated and purified in the manner deemed most ex
pedient for preventing infection.
" 20. Persons buffering from the pestilence are to re-
ceive at the lazaretto all that care and attention given
in the best organised hospitals of the country." .
The Presse remarks as follows on the above conclu-
sions :
"It is evident that the committee of the Academie
de Meiecine go as far as we do in the proposed system
of relent), and they limit themselves to the adoption of
the conclusions, and to giving their support to the in-
cesqint appeals of MM. Auber, Ruche, and Alexis de
Valon. We shall ,:nly remark upon two articles,
which
we deem altogether inadmissible. Some practical
Acadknow-
ledge was wanting to the de Me lecine. If a
Academic
had termed part of
merchant, or other personidqunalievt
er hav a•lmitted Ar-
the eominit tee, tih a
ey
ewtoouthe sealing of the merchandiseti;
uttrvc
ties 5 and 19, reso
this would be a eof needless delay, embarrassment,
aid trouble, and would be of the greatest prejudice to
cur steamers.
Article 17, which specifies a strict quarantine of f
the merchan3ise, on
fif-
teen days, and the disembarking 0
unclear bill of health, is not
any vessel arriving with an Besides which, it
. point of view.
logic, in a scientific pot
would tend to suppress commerce with the east in all
those ports void of lazarettos. Would it be just to
ndres, &c., to
oblige the vessels of Cette, of Port V e
have first to undergo a ruinous quarantine at Marselles,
our
before returning to the proprietor ? According _to .
notion, the academy has not sufficiently weighed this
article, which deserves closer investigation. however,
the question of quarantine has made a rapid step in
advance, and we flatter ourselves not to have lent a
powerless hand."

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at eight o'clock, a numerous .
at the Crown and
0 thenW a Waterloo-town, lroeop-rtioeNtv; ,0
petitioningfileth Bethnal-green, gr ee
Anchor,sid e rati
of Lords to
atow the weavers to be heard at tfie bar ooflistehellouse in
support of their opposition to the proposed reduction
duties on foreign wrought silks, as contemplateditheo.f.Ctuisletoms' Duties Act, Mr. Gurnell, president of the Union,
chair, who briefly alluded to the objects that were aolnutthte
come before the meeting, and urged the necessity of some
immediate steps being taken. Mr. :Bradly;moved—" That
we, the members of the Broad Silk Hand-loom Weavers'
Union, do petition the Honourable the House of Lords to
allow counsel to be heard at the bar of their Honourable
House, in defence of the silk question, feeling that the new
tariff will have a ruinous effect on their trade." Mr. Snow
observed that he would second the resolution, as he believed
it was their last resource. The chairman put the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.

MEXICO and the UM. 1 ED STATES.
The bombastic President Polk has at length had the
felicity of Wit in. a ;war !message to. Congress, craving
fo: '9 two reeitnents of volunteers, and other levlee of an
equally formidable kind, to resist the hostile purposes of
the Mexicans." The President, however, makes out but
re-
caeipvoeoarn cAasme rneof ticsaesdu
st to
other grief is that the Mexicans keep up an army
.ericTahneenMvoeyxei63'iirshisiti:seueraresfy
on the banks of the Rio Bravo. Why, they have had
posts there for these number of years. And even sup-
posing the Americans had a rightful title to Texas, it is
not apparent how this should render it a crime for the
Mexicans to garrison Matamoras. The territory
intervening between the Rio Bravo and the
Nueces has been long a disputed territory
between Texas and the adjoining provinces.
Not vtithstaAing this dispute, the Mexican commander
riA not occupy this territory, but kept on his own side
of the Rio del Norte. Had the American commander
done the same, and kept at the Corpus Christi, on the
Nueces, contented with protecting the territory from
invesion no collision could have taken place, for the
Mex;.cans remained strictly on the defensive. But Ge-
neral Taylor not only crossed the Nueces and seized
the whole of the disputed territory, but, under come
idle plea, he proceeded also to blockade Matamoras,
and cut it off from the sea. In this, General Taylor
wantonly commenced hostilities ; as, indeed, the Whigs
and the Senate are prepared to maintain, as they insist
that he should not have gone beyond Corpus Christi.
Collisions hating taken place, it teas inipo<=sible to re-
fuse the vote of levies and of money, although the
leading members of the Senate, Coltoun amangst others,
protested that the country could not consider itself at war.
The united bodies of Congress could, indeed, alone de-
clare that. War, however, it is, if President Polk chooses
to make it so. This he seems scarcely prepared to do upon
the land frontier of the Rio del Norte. He may, h
ever, give orders to the fleet in the Gulf to operate on
the coast, or to whatever vessels are on the Pacific, to
seize Monterey or the forts of California. And, as
compensation for that unlimited store of grievance,
which has been amassed on the supposed
wrongs done to American citizens by Mexico, Mr. Polk
may insist on retaining such provinces or possessions.
Federalist movements, too, may be got up at the same
time, under American influence, to paralyse the efforts
of the Mexican Government and facilitate the work of
spoliation. Is Europe prepared to see Mexico thus dis-
membered, and the autopsy made before her eyes ? It
is to be feared that such is the case. A serious means
of effective war would alone be likely to make the
Americans hesitate. And neither France nor England
is prepared to volunteer in such a struggle. We have
had little or no thanks from Spain for having fought
for and won its independence. We might risk still less
profit or gratitude from the Spanish race in Mexico.
The age of political, as well as of religious, crusades is
past.—Examiner.

CANADIAN NEWS.
(From the Toronto Herald of May 7.)
LOWFR PROVINCES.—Our latest advices from the
Lower Provinces inform us that, in New Brunswick, a
most destructive freshet had accompanied the breaking
up of the ice above Fredericton, on the river St. John
s'-id its tributsries ; almost erery bridge of any conse-
quence between that city and Woodstock has been de-
st roycd. The great crash is said to have commenced at
the French Village, twelve miles above Fredericton,
whe:e dwelling houses, barns, horses, cattle, sheep, &c.,
wvee swept away ; and at Sugar Island, two miles
lower, the destruction was stilt more extensive and ap•
palling, elm trees, three feet in diameter, being snapt
a iunder, or bent like reeds by the irresistible force of the
and water, while houses, barns, haystacks, cattle,
&I. , were borne down the current, or crushed
r.o l'..:T•:,a3ents and piled among the ice upon the shore.
e Is of one hundred buildings are said to have been
d. „ °yeti ; and such was the feelings of alarm, even in
:cricton, that a greal amonnt of property was removed
fet w the immediate vicinity of the river, and several
cem,iies took up their abode on Maryland Hill, which
ote‘leoks the city. No account of the amount of injury
4., ,-;-4-1 abt)re Woodstock had been received, though it
, known that two lives bad been lost. From Fredric-
. 4.., downwards, the ice still continued strong for several

The House of Assembly of the Province has placed
12,..000/. at the disposal of the Executive, to meet any
•-oergeroy that may arise out of the dispute between
G.;• t Britain and the United States, concerning the
p,--on question.
The Assembly closed its session on the 14,h instant,
t -4 was fot :rally prorogued to the first Tuesday in June,
uy the Lieutenant-Governor in person. The a.kteltion
of theAs-7.-mably throughout the session has 1--‘• :n devo!: d,
&most txclusively, to the ordinary. brs:nc---; of the
e•-•untey. A general election is expected .19 .ake
t• cly in July.
It seems now setied that the New Cathedral is to be
built at St. John, in perference to Fredericton.
Papers, from Sydney, Cape Breton, of the Ist Aptil,
stAte tie ice in the harbour was then impassable, and
was expec=ed to disappear altogether in two or three
days ; ;6 .altogether precisely four weeks earlier than the
s'erage of the last four years." So early a spring is
said to be without precedent in that.region.
The accounts from Newfoundland represent the Seal
F ,hery as hitherto not only unsuccessful but disastrous
Ti'-e St. John's Courier states, that upwards of eighty
letd been spoken which had caught no seals, nor
'end hey heard of one that had been fortunate enough
to take any ; and the Public Ledger gives the names of
seven vessels already known to have been lost in the ice.
The Governor of Prince Edward's Island has involved
'hi.-netf in a controversy with the Assembly, by dis-
wit:•s;ng the Spe-tker from the Ex, cntive Council, in con-
sequence of opinions expressed by him in the Assembly.
The following resolution was carried by a vote of 14
to 3.

"Resolved, as the opinion of this Committee, that the
House of Assembly has no confidence in Sir Henry Vere
Huntly, Lieutenant-Governor of this Colony."
It was resolved by the Assembly on Friday lost, on the
motion of Mr. BaldwLn—That this House are of opinion
that such en alteration should be made in the regula •
ions in the crown lands office, as will enable parties
buying land from the original purchasers of any quantity
not less than fifty acres, to have their purchases recocr
i.ised, and on production of the proper assignments, and
render of the sums due on such portions of land, that
transfers to the assignees be made in the hooks of the
Depor.ment, and that deeds in due course of time be
issued to them.

ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN HER MAJESTY'S
SLOOP FANTOME AND A BARBARY PIRATE.
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated. May 19 :
" In the greatest haste I write you a brief account of
a revere chastisement which has been inflicted by her
Maje3ty's ship Fantome, 16, Commander Sir F. W.
Nicholson, Bart., on the Moorish pirates, who have for
some time been committing depredations inthese Straits;
but lam sorry to say not without casualties among the
ship's company of the Fantome, a midshipman haring
been killed, and one of the lieutenants wounded, toge-
ther with a serjeant of marines and five seamen ano
marines.

" You have already the intelligence communicated by
Lloyd's agent of the seizure of a small British merchant
brig, named the Ruth, by the pirates, off the coast of
B.:rbary, and the escape of the crew in the boats, and
that upon their representation the Fantome had left Gi-
br-ltar to endeavour to recover the vessel—a portion of
the crew proceeding in the sloop of war to point out
the locality of the miscreants.
" It appears that the Fantome had little difficulty in
finding the brig, and, seeing that they would have to
fight for her, Captain Nicholson made his dispositions
accordingly. Ile dispatched the master and one party
to get the vessel off; and, being fired upon by a large
flrce collected on the shore, he pushed off in the beats,
u-der cover of the guns of the sloop, to occupy their
attention. A lengthened engagement then took place,
which lasted until the master and his party had got the
Ruth off, and had recovered some of her valuable cargo.
Captain Nicholson commanded in person, and he and
his small party were opposed by very considerable num-
bers of the Moors, who armed with pistols, guns, and
cutlasses, obstinately disputed his landing, and after-
wards his advance on the strand, some of them fighting
with great bravery. A great many were killed by the
crew of the Fantome, and a large number must have
suffered from the guns of the sloop covering the launch-
ing of the ship, for I hear from an eye-witness that
nothing could exceed the precision and exactneQs with
which the firing was conducted.

" From what I can learn the affair was a very gallant
one indeed, and was admirably conduced. The
pirates had a great advantage over the, Fantome's
crew in point of arms ; their muskets carried twice
as far as those of the seamen and marines. To
this circumstance is to be ascribed the loss of Mr.
Bays, the midshipman, who was a gallant and pro-
mising young officer, and lam informed is a son of a
captain in her Majesty's navy. Re was killed on the
return of the boats to the sloop wh=n they bad accom-
plished their task, and under the same circumstances the
first lieutenant, Mr. Saunderson, was severely wounded,
together with the colour-sergeant and four or five of the
ship's company. The action took place on the 12th of
May, at a point of the north coast of Barbary called Tre-
forces. to the eastward of the Tetuan,
" The seizure of tie brig was one of the most daring
acts of piracy that has been committed in the Mediter-
rant an for several years, and when it is considered that
it was in the strait and narrow passage: of the Mediter-
ranean by which merchant vessels pass, the importance
of the severe chastisement inflicted by Sir F. Nicholson
and his gallant officers and crew will be duly estimated,
not only in official, but in mercantile quarters."

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE SPARK OF A RAILWAY
ENGlNE.—Durihg the progress of one ofth e trains on the
augnoc,tiaon yesrtystonYork and North Midland line, a few days
dis-
tressing event occurred at the Milford j
owing to the ejection of a burning piece of coal from the
chimney of the engine, which alighted upon an interesting
girl, about eight years of age, one of the waiters in the re-
freshment-rooms, and her clothes being set on fire, she was
0 dreadfully burned that death terminated her sufferings the
same evening. Amidst all the wonderful improvements of
the age connected with railway travelling, there appears to
be a great defect in the prevention of accidents of this nature.
—Leeds Mercury.
REMARKABLE DEATS OF A TIGER.—A magnificent
royal tiger, forming part of a travelling menagerie at the
with chains ttaoirr
of
ff 3 ine. tz , has recently met with its death in a very at
unaccustoemnet
entering
rious way. In consequence of the blows of a whip or stick
received in its youth, it bad near the jaw two wens of some
operatortc,townpfh has
s
size,rna which no one had ever thought of removing, till a vete-
rinary of Metz- proposed to perform this perilous
i n s Theam rooffpeers having
The
iie poor
rn
aanCiemepatledsubbym
operation.
the menagerie, the tiger was securely fastened down
ex-
treme rage, thati
of the brain ensued,ng
quietness;gantcehtte.yrceagweitwhitmhuhchisknife,
operation, the tiger was seized with such ex-
unable to burst his bonds, congestion
tp,hurechased
his
itbeeud tito:on attemptingtrtheliei-s
and he expired in a few seconds. The
histoq.remains for its cabinet of natural