The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-19 00:00:00

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THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1835.

and simple process of reasoning to arrive at the con-
clusion, that the acts of a House of Commons so con-
stituted were the acts of the Lords. Qui facit
per cilium, facit per se, is an indisputable
maxim in morals as well as in law, and
one of which we ought never to lose sight
in discussing the question before us. Whenever we
wish to form a just estimate of the merits of the House
of Lords, let us recollect its deeds done through its Com.-
mons. Let us call to mind, among many other things,

effectual antidote in all cases of hydrophobia. We re-
quote the paragraph for the purpose of calling the at-
tention of some able medical practitioners to the sub•

lea :-
" CURE FOR THE STING OF A WASP OR BEE.—A
discovery was accidentally made by a chemist in this city a
few days ago, which is likely to lead to most important re-
sults. He had been stung by a wasp in the hand, and while
suffering extreme pain from this circumstance, had occasion,
in the course of his business, to put his hand into a jar of
potass, when the pain instantly left him. Surprised at this
effect, he determined to try an experiment to further prove
the efficacy of the remedy, and accordingly, on the follow-
ing day, he caught a bee, which he irritated till it stung
him. He applied a drop of the liquor potassm to the wound,
and the pain he had previously felt was instantly removed.
After this experiment, and the previous discovery he had
made, he felt convinced that the poison introduced by the
sting of a wasp or bee is an acid which is neutralised by the
application of a powerful alkali, and he considers it not
improbable that the effects of the sting of serpents and other
reptiles may be counteracted by a similar application. Should
this prove to be the case, the discovery will, indeed, be a
valuable one.."
In conclusion, we cannot too strongly recommend
the owners of dogs to allow them a plentiful supply of
water. Madness in dogs, except when the animals
are bitten, arises from excessive thirst. This recom-
mendation may appear to some individuals very unim-
portant ; but nothing is unimportant which tends to
he preservation of human life.

the persecuting and cruel laws which it has enacted
against the rights of conscience and the liberty of the
Press ; the torrents of blood which it has caused to flow,
by the wars in which it needlessly plunged the country ;
the grinding burden of taxation which it has fixed
upon the shoulders of the people, in order to pay
debts contracted for no national object, but in sub-
sidizing Powers who are now doing all that lies
in their power to ruin us ! And let us not forget
that it has blocked up the only path by which we
might have escaped this ruin, by artificially enhancing
the price of food, thus sacrificing the national welfare
to its own short-sighted selfishness. These arc a few,
and but a few, of the blessings we owe to the House
of Lords

As everything connected with the Post-office de-
partment is regarded by the public with the greatest
degree of interest, we beg to call particular attention
to the following paragraph, which we copy from the

By a document which appears in another column,
we observe that the question of Church-rates is
again to be raised in the parish of Bungay St. Mary,
where the Church-wardens have already signalised
themselves by the imprisonment of Mr. JOHN CHILD s.
We do not wish to offer suggestion or advice on the
case itself, because the Committee which directed the
late proceedings is re-organized with new strength,
and the affair is in good hands. We just observe, in
passing, that if the Tories fancy they are damaging
the present Ministry by advising the infliction of
grievances on Dissenters, which the clap-trap orator
declares he would have removed, they are playing their
own game, and their adversaries' too. The Dissenters
know right well that Toryism, under whatever name
or guise, will give no more than they can take, and
are satisfied that while contending with an unreformed
House of Lords, the Ministry have little chance of
realising their honest purposes, unless when abuses
are thus brought before the popular gaze, and produce
expressions of the public will, intelligible even to Tory
bigotry, and too strong even for Tory power.

columns of a Morning Contemporary :
We have received a letter from Mr. Dawson, a news-
vendor, residing in Cannonstreet, complaining of a new
and unexpected impediment in the circulation of British
newspapers in foreign countries. He complains that the
Post-office has signified its intention to decline receiving
any newspapers on the wrapper of which the name of the
paper is printed or written, or on which the name of the
news vendor sending it is printed. At the same time, he
states that he has received from a customer at Madrid a
letter containing the following passage :—" It is necessary
to pass the post here at a small cost, that the paper should
come with the name of the journal, as well as the person
to whom it is addressed, printed on the cover." Thus, if
it contains the name of the paper and of the news•vender on
the wrapper, the English Post-office will not send it ; and
if it does not contain them, the Spanish Post-office will
not deliver it. This, of course, if persevered in, must put
an end to the circulation of British newspapers in Spain,
the country which of all others perhaps most needs them.
Mr. Dawson, in this dilemma, addressed a letter of remon-
strance to Sir t'. Frecling, to which he received the follow-

ing reply :
"TO MR. W. DAWSON, NEWS-AGENT, 74, CANNON-STREET.
" Sir,—l have received your letter of yesterday's date. It
is not in my power to enter into any reasoning on the subject
of an Act of Parliament which this department is bound to
obey, and which expressly provides that there shall be no
printed words of communication on the cover of newspapers
sent under the Act, other than the address thereof:
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " Ti. FREELING."
This is but one of the many instances which daily
occur of rather curious comments upon the wisdom of
the British Parliament. In most Foreign countries no
- • • •

The whole of the Paris Papers of Thursday have
been received, together with advices from Madrid to
the 7th inst. All was then tranquil in the Spanish
capital. M. MENDIZABEL, who had arrived from
Lisbon, had set out immediately for the Royal resi-
dence. " There," says the Messager, " seconded by
the English Minister, Mr. VILLIERS, he is to endea-
vour to induce the QUEEN to rely without reserve on
the men who are of the liberal party, by yielding to
the representations of the Provinces, which offer to
make a great effort to put an end to the Carlist party—if
they can be certain that the Government will really
pr oceed in the course which is pointed out, as
well by the petitions presented by the Procu-
radores in the last Session, and which were not
attended to, as by the more recent expositions
of the Juntas of Catalonia, Valencia, and Arra-
gon. On these terms a more sincere co-operation
of England (or rather of the English capitalists), and
the support of an auxiliary Portuguese corps, are also
insured to it.

Newspaper will be allowed to circulate which has not
the name of the Journal printed upon the cover ; and
as Newspapers so directed, cannot, according to tl►e
Post-office regulations, leave England, the consequence
is that British Journals ara almost entirely excluded
from Continental circulation. This is a great evil ;
but it is one which would never have occurred but for
the interference of those Post-office authorities who
would now attribute it exclusively to the Legislature.
Sir F. FREEIANG states that it is not in his power to
set aside an Act of Parliament. We know this right
well ; and so likewise does the public. But will Sir
F. FREELING be good enough to tell us at whose sug-
gestion ParliaMent passed the absurd clause of the Act
to which he alludes in his letter to Mr. DAWSON ?
By whom was the copy of that Act drawn up ? Was
it not by the Solicitor for the Post-office ? In fact
Parliament left the Post-office to frame all laws relating
to it precisely as it pleased, the Legislature, complaisantly
enough, giving its sanction to all Bills brought before it
exactly in the form recommended by the Postmaster-
General for the time being. It is only a few years since
the same absurd regulation existed with respect to .our
own Colonies in the West Indies. English newspapers
were prevented from circulating there by the same
absurd regulation which now hinders them from being
received in Spain, unless at an expense which operates
as a prohibition. In the instance of our Colonies the
evil has been remedied ; yet the Post-office authorities
took especial care not to acquaint Parliament that a ge-
neral evil could not be abolished by a partial remedy.
All the Post Office sought was to be saved as much
trouble as possible, no matter at what loss to the

" It is in this light, if we may believe the letters o
the 7th, that the state of affairs is to be represented
to Queen CHRISTINA.. There can be no doubt that
M. TORENO, supported by M. DE RAYNEVAL, will
endeavour to defeat these projects. To do this he
should be able to offer to the QUEEN some support on
which she might depend ; the intervention of France
might give it, but we do not believe that M. DE
REYNEVAL can hold out even a glimpse of hope
on that subject. CHRISTINA cannot, however,
remain in her present situation. Even supposing
that the fidelity of the troops stationed at Ma-
drid, and in the environs, remains unshaken, the
QUEEN-REGENT is ,in fact deprived of all means of
acting beyond the vicinity of the capital, since the
Liberal movement extends from Corunna to Cadiz, and
from Badajoz to Barcelona."
It is announced that letters from Madrid, of the
9th, have been received by an extraordinary courier,
which arc to the effect, that the representations of M.
MENDIZABEL have not been ineffectual, and that the
QUEEN has consented to admit M. ARGUELLES and
the leaders of the Opposition in the Chamber of the
Procuradores into the Cabinet.
It remains to be seen whether the resolution does
not come too late,' and whether the men who have
just proclaimed the Constitution of 1812 in different
parts of the kingdom will not think, when they re-
ceive the decrees of the 3d, that they, have gone
too far to return to a system which would recognise
as its foundation the Estatato Real, even with the
flied resolution of carrying its- consequences as far
as possible.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Pains, SErrEmsuft 17. '
Five per Cents., 107 f. 65c. 55c. 5Cc.
Four per Cents.. 97f. 80c.
Timer per Cents.. 60f. 15c. 10c.
Bank Actions, 2,005 f. 2,067 f. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 98f. 10c. 97f. 95c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1021,4.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 19%4%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 3114 32.
Rcnte Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 31 31%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10314.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 973.4.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 56 tt
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
o,ie month, paper, —f. —c.; money. 25f. 50e.
Three months, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 35c
—Co,frs Au/hen/tone.
QUAItTRR TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 50c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. sc. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 31k; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 191 ; Cortes, —; Coupons, 17 ; Gueb.
bards, 32; Differes, 121; New Loan, 371; Actives, 974- •
Passives, 111; Ducats, 98; Romans, 1021; Pcdros, 87t;
Belgians, 1031; Dutch, —; Haytians, —f.; Miguels, —;
Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —.

country.
With respect to the clause in the Act which prohi-
bits more than the address of the person to whom it is
directed being written on the cover of a newspaper,
we are of opinion that the Post Office ought
to be guided by the intention of the Legislature—or
in other words, that the Act ought to be liberally
interpreted. Now it never was the intention of Par-
liament to prohibit the name of the paper from being
printed on the cover. What Parliament sought to
prevent, was the custom of writing such communica-
tions on the covers of newspapers, as saved the trou-
ble of transmitting letters, by which means the revenue
suffered very considerable loss. By writing inside
newspapers, and on their covers, many persons con-
trived to carry on a regular correspondence with their
friends without being at the expense of postage. Mer-
cantile men very frequently used printed envelopes,
which envelopes were in themselves business letters.
It was the prevention of such a System of fraud as this
that the Legislature contemplated, and we are confi-
dent that such would be the opinion of the Crown
Lawyers, were the question regularly brought before
them. We trust that a matter of such importance
will not escape the attention of the Hon. Member for
Greenock.

Hardly a day passes in which we are not called upon
to record deaths from hydrophobia. Latterly the in-
crease of this malady is really frightful, and as none
can ensure themselves protection from it, we are not
surprised that the public begins to be seriously alarmed•
The prospect of sudden death is fearful even under the
most favourable circumstances ; but death, preceded by
a madness which is itself the cause of that death, is so
awful, that we shudder at the idea of making it the
object of a moment's thought. Yet the danger which
we so much dread surrounds us on every side. Chil-
dren are not exempt from it. The following para-
graph which we extract from a Morning Contemporary,
is,,we regret to state, but a passing record of an ordi-
nary occurrence :
" A shocking case of death by hydrophobia took place
on Thursday morning, about eleven o'clock, in Cannon-
street, Thames-street. The son of a Mr. Thompson, resid-
ing in that street, had been bitten by a favourite dog, which
afterwards ran away, and had not since been heard of. On
Tuesday last, the family were alarmed by the violent
symptoms that appeared, and medical advice was instantly
resorted to, but without effect, as the poor little sufferer
expired about twelve o'clock in the greatest agony."
It is painful to us to bring such a subject as this
so prominently before the public mind ; neither should
we so bring it, were we not persuaded that it is in the
power of science to neutralize the evil effects which
now inevitably follow the bites of mad animals, espe-
cially of the canine and feline species. In The Sun
of yesterday, we copied a paragraph from the Durham
Advertiser, which stated that a chemist in that city had
discovered an effectual and instantaneous cure foi- the
sting of a wasp. The discovery of the cure was accidental ;
but from the tr►fling attention which we have been able to
bestow upon it, we are seriously inclined to believe
that if the experiment be perfected, it will prove an

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The new Synagogue in Duke-place was opened
yesterday in a most splendid style, and was attended by a
numerous congregation, amongst whom were a number of
Christians, who were highly delighted with the sacred
music. Thirty books of the laws of Moses, superbly orna-
mented with gold and silver, and twelve boys strewing
flowers before them, were carried round the pulpit seven
times; after which Doctor Hershel], the high-priest, said
a prayer for the congregation, in a most imposing manner.
Of lunatics women exceed the males by about three
to two ; while of drunkards the men are found to predo-
minate in exactly the same proportion.
Parsonstown has been the scene of much angry
feeling during the last week, in consequence of a young
girl's father getting her married by the Rev. Mr. Kennedy,
though Father Crotty married the same young woman to
another man the previous day. This affair will be the
commencement of a suit at law, in which there will be a
desperate and inveterate struggle between the whole church
and a rejected and unruly son.—Limerick Times.