The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-22 00:00:00

HAMBURGH PAPERS.

VIENNA, DEC. 9.—A quantity of paper currency, of the
nominal value of 19,92.5,893 florins convention money, the
interest of which is a million, will be shortly cancelled and
publicly burnt.
On the 12th of last month two-thirds of the houses of
the great Hungarian market town of laszo, in the county
of Abaiyva, were destroyed by fire.
The Government of Berne has communicated to the
presiding Canton the memorandum which it sends direct to
the Austrian and French Cabinets, and in which it states
that in consequence of the meeting at Steinbotzi it has in-
timated to the workmen that such meetings must cease,
and it has ordered those who transgrels this injunction to
leave the Canton.

r The Government of Berne also gives the assurance that
it will send away all those who endeavour, while in its ter-
ritory, to excite disturbances in the neighbouring States ;
and in general that it will endeavour, by its conduct as
presiding Canton, to preserve the relations of friendship
and good neighbourhood.
HAMBUILGH, DEC. 15.—The Sylph, Captain Fox, from
Bahia, has been brought into our harbour by the Hamburgh
steam-boat the Elbe.

HAMBURGH, DEC. 16.--BORSEN HaLLE.—This market
continues firm, and several descriptions of security have
risen. Austrian Bank Shares are scarce, and are sought
for the end of the month. For Polish, Prussian, Spanish,
and Portuguese Stock advanced prices may be had. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., for the January Account, were
offered to-day at 52i.
Discount, 2% per cent. End of Deoember
Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent ..... ..... 73%
Anglo-Russian
Russian Inscription, 5 per sent., IS2, 19.5%
Ditto, ditto, 1831 95 /.4
Ditto, ditto, 1830 95%
Certificates

97
_
Polish Bonds
Prussian Bonds, 1832119)6
Austrian Bank Shares, 1832
Ditto Metalliques lOO
Ditto 4 percent.
Ditto 4 per Cent. (1834) llO%
Spanish 3 per
.......
Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and ons)
Ditto 4 per Cent. 46%
Dutch 2 per Cents. 52
Ditto 5 per Cents O7
Portuguese Ileg,ency, 5 per cent ........ ...... 8114
Ditte, 111 per cent 91%
—Hamburg Reporter, Dee. 16.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dec. 10.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. ......... „ ....... .........
Bank Shares 1272
—4llgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 15.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, DEC. 15.
St. Sohuld. Sch. 4 per cent....—.... ........ 100 g, 90%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent..„ 96 9334
—Prussian State Gazelle, Dec. 16.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Hassatirto,DEc. 16.-13 44 ; two months, 13 6%.
BREMEN, DEC. 12.—Two months, 6 6.
BERLIN, Dec. 13.-I'hree months, 6 25.
CHRISTIANIA, DEe. 6.—Three months. 5 al.
STOCKHOLM, DEC. s.—Two months, 12 34. Hamburg Papers, Dec. 16.

FIRE.---Saturday evening, about seven o'clock, the
neighbourhood of Cannon-street, City, was in great excite-
ment, in consequence of a fire breaking out in the house of Mr.
Gilbert, printer, Salters' Hall-court, and from the nature of
the stock on tho premises the alarm was for some time well
founded. Fortunately the engines from the Watling-street
station were quickly procured, and by the skill and unwearied
exertions of the firemen and inhabitants the fire was finally
subdued by eight o'clock. The fire began in an apartment
occupied by Mr. Hill, a stock-broker, and is supposed to have
been caused by a spark from a candle unperceived having
to Wong some corks. The property is not insured.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—May I take the liberty of calling. yon- attention
to the absurdity of those prescriptive measin s by. which
our Legislators would ensure the public health I' Even
the French, who have enumerated a hundred diseases sup-
posed to be more or less contagious, in various regulations,
have neglected so severe and fatal a disease as small po.e
in their sanatory laws. "No notice," says Magendie in
his recent lectures, " has been taken of this complaint,
which is, par excellence, the contagious one, being com-
municable by contact, by respiration, and by inoculation,
and I doubt much if any other disease comprehends these
circumstances." I believe that we have motives for lamen-
tation upon this subject equally as great as those assigned
by the French physiologist. Within these four months,
upwards of one hundred individuals have fallen victims to
the small pox in this city. In all these cases, as far as
I am able to learn, the unfortunate individuals received
the best medical assistance ; yet of those who were at-
tacked, very few escaped a premature death.
It is not my object to call in question the talents of the
practitioners, who from the imperfect state of medical
science, have not yet been able to discover any etheacious
remedy for this fearful disease ; but eould not certain police
regulations be established to prevent the contagion from
spreading ? There are thousands of parents in England
.done, who are ignorant enough to seek opportunities of
obtaining for their children the inoculation of small pox,
and hundred of persons, calling themselves members of the
medical profession, base enough to assist them. Why not,
for instance, compel every doctor to report to a magistrate
each case of small pox, and then let the afflicted individual
be conveyed to some infirmary, similar to that which you
have near Battle-bridge, in London ? If the names of
these surgeons and apothecaries who inoculate, and thereby.,
perpetuate the malady, were made public, and held up to
merited contempt, the infatuated parent, not being able to
find any professional man to inoculate the virus, would, in
a few years abandon the abominable practice, and before a
quarter of a century this complaint would be, most pro-
bably, completely eradicated. It may be said that every
parent can avoid danger by causing the child to be vacci-
nated ; but, Sir, I could mention the case of an infant, only
four days old—a period, I believe, too early for vaceina-
tion—having been attacked with confluent small pox, which
had evidently been communicated to the poor babe by a
medical man, who was at the same time attending another
child whom he had inoculated with small pox. Both in-
fants died I

I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
York, Dec.
H. S.