The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, Nov. 19.—The average price of wheat
last week was 17f. 93c. ; and that of rye 10f. 69c
The import and export; duties remain unaltered.
The Chamber of Representatives, after having re-
ceived a great number of petitions, resolved itsel
into a secret Committee to enter on the examination
of its own budget. After having decided on this
question, the public sitting was resumed, to examine
the project of law relative to the importation of
twelve million kilogrammes of corn from the duchy
of Limburg, with a reduction of 75c. from the pre-
sent duties. The debate taking a political turn, the
Chamber again formed itself into a secret Committee,
Which, as we hear, was adjourned till to-morrow.
In this Committee the Minister urged the necessity
of this project of law, as he had proposed it to the
Chamber.

A royal resolution of the 2d of November autho-
rises the Commercial Bank of Antwerp to a certifi-
cate of the Roman Five per Cent. Stock inscribed in
the Great Book of Rome, to the amount of six mil-
lions of francs, and for a period which will expire on
the 31st of December, 1854.
This permission is granted on the following con-
ditions
1. To fulfil in any points the obligations mentioned
mi the National Act executed the 16th October last.
2. Not to issue certificates of less nominal value
than I,ooof. at the least, as well as the coupons, with
lease to mention the corresponding value in Roman
Piastres.

3. To insert in the certificates the cases which may
Interrupt the payment of the interest (rcnte course),
as 'well as the conditions by means of which an
original share may be obtained.
k 4. To have the certificates stamped, as prescribed
°Y the law of March 21, 1839.
If these conditions should not be complied with, the
Permission will be withdrawn.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bansma, Nov. 20.
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent.,
Roth—
Loan Five per Cent
~,I.oan of Thirty Millions Four per Cent 9B %
Three per Cent —
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto

(1840) lOi
. lO3
102%
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent.
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
OO -
issue of 1841....,” ..... ...,..... ....... ...... ...........
'—Brlissels Papers, Nov. 21.
DUTCH FUND3.—AMSTERDAM,
Money.
y 1.6.
Bill,.
6214 625 i
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent....
75% '7SN
Ditto ditto 3 per Cent.
96% 97
Ditto, ditto,' 4 per Cent.
100
Datou_ittoS per cent.
Vl)% 1)9%
limin't gyndic, 4% per cent
. _
Ditto. ditto, 3% per cast
147'. 147%
Commercial Company, 4,,,, per cent
Loan 1837, 4% per cent. Exchange on London, Onemonth
......
&7 12
Two months l2i
12
Hamburgh, One month
353
2550
Dutch Papers, Nov. 20.
PRUSSIAN FUN DS.—BERLIN, Ndit
money 16.
st. Schuld Sch., 3% per cent.
per cent..
g.,„ S
Prussian English Bonds, 1830, . vi Exchange on London
Prussian State Gazette. Nov l7.
131 t• KEENAN'S NEW PRINCIPLE
OF PHYSIOLOGY.
Dr. Keenan last night delivered the second of his
course of lectures on organic chemistry, at
the
Western Scientific Institution, on which the room
was again well filled. He went over much of thesi_
14.1111 e ground that he had traversed in his first
hexpo .
"on, his theory being simply that the humane r.od.ty/is
lul electro-motive machine, and that the eloeftthiectfoyodis
~ifellerated in the lungs by the oxygenation
-1- he point on which he particularly dweltof
twhease theeos ab-
sente o f
nce of all philosophical explanation
Inion in the theory of Liebig, who supposes
heatthe
'chief urp
oses of the lungs to be generated from
and the evolutions of carbon. There was great in-
genuity displayed by Dr. Keenan in tehudiemeoaenen;erhuint
which he placed his theory befored th
it Was accompanied with considerable
foemuinde
srepdrfeosrentthae-
tion of the views of Liebig, and _
w
Most part on assumption. ki
first place, the disputed question,e assumed, in the
that the nervous
influence and electricity are identical ; and having
taken that for granted, he rested 1.1.
the generation of electricity in the lungsis theory of
altogether
on analogy, and that of an imperfect kind. Though
the generation of voltaic electricity is produced by
the absorption of oxygen, it is doubted by man y phy-
siologists whether any en ever is absorbed
by the blood in the lungsox, and therewhat is little analogy
between the absorption of oxygen by a zinc plate
from the decomposition of water and the assumed
absorption of oxygen and the formation of water in
lungs by the decomposition of atmospheric air.
ofThe excitement of frictional electricity, which Dr.
Iteenan attributed entirely to the oxydisement
the amalgam on the rubber can with great difficulty
nbe attributed to chemical action, since electricity is
en excited under circumstances when no oxydisa-
ue base is known to be present. Even supposing
thte identity of nervous influence and voltaic elec-
'eiY, the analogy of the action of the lungs
ears but feebly in support of Dr. Keenan's theory,
and he leaves the heat of the body altogether
Unaccounted for. In applying his system of
-4-\l3llr. KYsicdcgy to the management of the human body,
-"Jeenan contended that the electricity in the
nerves spread over the stomach and in the lacteals
assists mainly in digesting the food, and that when the
Stomach has more food thrust into it, in proportion to
ththeus"Ygen absorbed by the blood, than the electricity
and theen:lreatted.
.can digest, the remaining portion of
°l37disable food irritates the stomach and intestines,
c ricity of the nerves is exhausted by the
repletion and over work. In this manner, he affirmed.
liere are quite as many of the rich starved to death
fromtlYrepletion
as there are of the poor who are starved
v the want of food. Dr. Keenan's lecture was
oeurY well received, but, owing to his speaking with-
and t lic'tes, he is very discursive, frequently repeats,
411,3' consequently, makes his lectures rather confused
much too long.
thFoRTUNATE ESCAPE.—Last Saturday, betwe.e.n.
etty ,ncl forty tons of the bind or roof of a coaipit
fell ?4'hg to Messrs. Barber and Walker, at Kimberley,b
workhi• A. few minutes previously several men had been
....be.ivtit:o;pvtlitrnAPooa n the spot where the heavy material. fell,
otht:rtunately their services had been required in somed
fmtitheenpiietw, and. thus their lives were preserve
fable 299,
jat RSE OF FORTUNE.—The police-cons.
Vent %s Tracy, wbo was struck by Mr. Ashton, of the
iiii-:'-office, in self defence, at the South Dock station,
risi'nee been elevated to the title of Earl Tracy an
Re:ti. age Liverpool paper.
t:IN la
FIRE.—Yesterday morning, shortly
enpied c ock, a fire broke out upon the premises_ oc.•
dill Lyle, Mr. Richard Hanks, 11, Duke-strePt, Picca
u.sap,
-I Y' which was not extinguished before considerable
dvoanleuatholethe ground floor and workshops,
e7joquilapeirhowgpeasa
quantity of stock, furniture,
The
i,vets
aTriteye,abroetdh
ibaythfierep,..hwceanteirx., and removal.
"Qerstand that M. Locke, the eminent en-
tirnetrh, haas received from his Majesty the King
.of theto
his ~,,._. magnificent diamond fr attention
.., It 4_9 hear
on the South Western Railway
/Cvhe that it is in contemplation to invest his
lg fleas the 144 •
Gotha with "Ailing Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg
liarter, as the Insignia of the illustrious Order of
.t e
his
~ . an honorar I- '
NISIt tO his an Y .night, by her Majesty, during
tinguished part and other per' autos relatives in this country. A lis-
.Windsor Castie the
Ye' ieriecslud,ing Earl Delawarr, the Premier,
semble a a-- 13` ,high note, are expected to ?..5-
week, by..royal invitation to meet tmiddleheir Royal
BUTCHERS' 13
y in
of theli g
henn
es
sulg.
tiversar d.
yes.terda
y, at the Freemasons' ENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The an-
was larger than thoaft eheistneaxsocenTt
Tavern. The
absugniivbeenr
above three hundred. The Chairman was Alderman
assembled last year, amounting to
Challis three
unnter, who
Sidney,
friends
.of supported by the Sheriffs, Messrs.
toast, theand §Auhey, Mr. Giblett, and several other
this Charity. In announcing the principal
Chairman dwelt with tact and feeling on the
Society purpose of the Association, vindicated the
40..oc_ieety. from the assertions made as to their want of
'5!0.1.u...uue Tty.soma years ago, and pointed with a 11., 0 triumph to the fact that at present the butchers
London expended 1,0004 annually, on fifty-three re-
....clpients of their bounty, the men receiving 20/. and the
ZynlFll.l6l. per annum. The subscriptions were on the
usual. liberal. scale, and the evening was passed in the
utmost harmony,
teftAL MEICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND.---Yes
tisit'i, a special general meeting of the subscribers to
...,:iatsraieutntd, `vas held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir Wm-
president, in the chair, to receive the
report of a Committee appointed to investigate the af-
fairs of the society The chairman having acknowledged
that the fund was' in a very embarrassed state, called
LIP(In Mr. Crandell, the secretary, to read the report of
the co .
. mmittee, which was exceedingly volumnious, and
'auutained the recommendation of the Committee to re-
'Luce the annuities from 404 to 261. 13s. 4d. ; and also the
.?_nPoitnion of the law officers of the Crown that they could
_ Make that reduction without an Act of Parliament
lonorising them to remodel the society. The report
purposes, contained a draft of the Act necessary for those
The report was adopted, and thanks were
voted to the Committee and the chairman of the day.
,sor LIFE, RUN DOWN NEAR GRAVESEND. ay.
ing IFE.—Abot three o'clock on Monday morning,
~ somewhat foggy, as a vessel named the Ranger,
uunt 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, was working
4), the Reach for London, a collier brig, also beating
stn. the
the Ranger in midships with such force as to
master her almost instantaneously, carrying with her the
, Mr. Duffield, who, it is said, was in the cabin
Itt the __ _
fo„.. , tia Qua en t, and who perished. The rest of the erew,
",',ll Ilumber, had a narrow escape. The collier, after
piev'.Lg laid too for several minutes, in the hopes of
og up the ill-fated master, proceeded on to Graves-
b"..4,ove,here the crew of the Ranger were landed. Mr.
,p,Lin Id WaS a native of Grimsby, where he has left a
" and tinnil y.