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

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED TIIIS DAY.)
DRussELs, Nov. 19.—The average price of wheat
last week was 17f. 93c.; and that of r`•e 10r. 69e
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 7.5 c. from the pre-
isetit 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
tor 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 mu--
lifts of francs, and fora period which will expire on
e 31st of December, 1854.
This permission is granted on the following con-
ditions
1. To fulfil in any points the obligations mentioned
'l3 the National Act executed the 16th October last.
2- Not to issue certificates of less nominal value
tbao I,ooof. at the least, as well as the coupons, with
to mention the corresponding value in Roman
154atres.
3. To insert in the certificates the cases which may
illterrupt the payment of the interest (rente course),
Lka well as the conditions by means of which an
wlinal share may be obtained.
.13 4. To have the certificates stamped, as prescribed
.7 the law of March 21, 1839.
If these conditions should not be complied with, the
1/44nliasion will be withdrawn.
Aetna D
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BausseLs, Nov. 20.
ebtCent.,
Loan of Five per Cent
"Akan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 6 %
Three per
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
—.. (1840) lO4
mac.. ....... 103
Loan of City, 1843, /our per Cent. lo2k
Boeiety of Connnere, Four and a Half per Cent.
'teak of Bel ' Five r Cent
emu. of IMF"' per
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......trisisilTiapers. Nov. 21.
DUTCH 1 UN 03.—Amerreansid, Nov. 16.
Monts. Kilts.
Ditto
Debt '2% per Cent
tllti • ' 024 62%
1,--0, ditto, 3 per Cent.
96% 97
....CLuttiQ4,thinttt,o),
44 per Cent.
per era t. .. . 99;6 1(0
Afs4tnet t Syndic, 4}i, per cent i.914 99%
Xrurn tto. ditto, 3}4, per cent...
...a ...o
erelal Company, 4}, pea cent 147 147%
Loan„. 1837. 4% per cent.
114tchange on Londe, Onemonth ....
Two months.„ l2 C,7 4,
Plarsiburgh, One month
Two months, 55 25
'plutit Papers, Nov. 20.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13same, Nov. 16.
Bills. Money
I)t',, --,‘"tudd Sch., 336 per cent.
i'llassian English Bonds, 1830, 1 per cent — 0 23% Exchange on London — 6 23N,
'desian State Gazette. Nov. 17
tio-• KEEN-AN'S NEW PRINCIPLE

OF PHYSIOLOGY.
Dr. Keenan last night delivered the second of his
course of lectures on organic chemistry, sa the
:41\resstern Scientific Institution, on which the room
114 again well filled. He went o‘;sr much of the
-atilt ground that he had travert'sd in his first exposi-
tion, his theory being simply that the human body/is
tn el theory
mac line, and that the electricity is
tir lerated in the lugs by the oxygenation of the food.
e point on which he particularly . dwelt was the ab-
lehen of all philosophical
explanationofthe cause
the
useof
Illotion hi. the theory of Lieb g,
who supposes
chief purposes of the lungs to be generatedreaaw from heat
and the evolutions of carbon. The
in-
genuity displayed by Dr. Keefonanthine
manner
rbuint
"which he placed his theory be
itsrvi
cfatchceotvnxtvnsieedf wilethhif
ote sahueinds
drimeeircnefenes;re n
theta -
g, considerableae drewas
He
Thost part on assumption. -
that the nervous
assumed,u in the
first place, the disputed question, that ; influence and electricity are identical and having
taken that for granted, he rested his theory of
the generation of electricity in thelungski altogether
ton analogy, and that of an imperfect . nd. Though
the generation of voltaic electricity is produced by
the absorption of oxygen, it is doubted by many phy-
siologists whether any oxygen whatever is absorbed
f'bby the blood in the lungs, and there is little analogy
etween the absorption of oxygen by a zinc plate
ffran the decomposition of water and the assumed
absorption of oxygen and the formation of water
.in
lungs by the decomposition of atmospheric
Dr.par.
-4be excitement of frictional electricity, which
Keenan attributed entirely to the oxydisement
of the amalgam on the rubber can with great difficulty
4 attributed to chemical action, since electricity, is
ften excited under circumstances when no oxy di.sa-
-1„le base is known to be present. Even supposing
the identity of nervous influence and
fvotlhtaeic
lungsel
lrieit.l7, the analogy of the action
-v-art but feebly in support of Dr. Keenan's theory,
end he leaves the heat of the body altogether
lanaccounted for. In applying his system
body,of
j1:8k)logy to the management of the hurpan. 1,, • Keenan contended that the electricity
iintetaliies
Zer,ves spread over the stomach and in the
's4ts mainly in digesting the food, and that whenae the
ib°lllach has more food thrust into it, in proportion to
01,,43'gen absorbed by the blood, than the e ec y.
„"3,Kenerated can digest, the remaining portion of
Ache,-,,loisable food irritates the stomach and intestines,
-;:i the electricity of the nerves is exhausted by the
electricity
and over- work. In this manner, he affirmed.
'by ~ are quite as many of the rich starved to death
froth th
e re
as there are of the poor who
are starvweads
very _-- Want of food. Dr. Keenan's lecture .
out well received, but, owing to his speaking with-
an
nots, he is very discursive, frequently repeats,
111,3‘ .°ll3equently, makes his lectures rather confused
• much tco long.
Pc.,
Saturday, between
thir, .5.11A.TE ESCAPE.—Last s
of a
coalpit
1,11:Y and forty tons of the bind or root
fell inn
A
Messrs. Barber and Walker,lamt
ciniiimiabdebrleecyn,
ly,,ki• A. few minutes previously sevcra
but g upon the spot where the heavy m. aterial fell,
essk,,,rwtnnately their services had been required in some
...,A,v part of the pit, and thus their lives were preserved. 'tt'n9huna Review.
Ittv
4 ~._ zasn or FORTUNE —The police-constable 299,
Isru'es Tracy, who was struck by Mr. Ashton, of
.tchne
haEstt?-°in'ec, in self defence, at the South Dock stati
on,
/ris;:•hce been elevated to the' title of Earl Tracy—
Atlat"4ge.--Liverpool paper.
OtAr ARMING FIRE.—Yesterday morning, florticy.
alerillied2 ("I,lc.iock, a fire broke out upon the premises oc .
v ..) Mr. Richard Hanks, 11, Duke-streot, Pica clarL':, Which was not extinguished before considerable
.eo,,e was done to the ground floor and workshops,
titli alriing at valuable quantity of stock, furniture,
Tanhde
cceiet: ProPery, both by fire, water, and removal.
"tits are insured in the Phoenix.
; !inderstand that Mr. Locke, the eminenotfetnh-e
1: 72 5 has received from his Majesty the iti:i;:n.a Magnificent diamond ring for his aKttinengtion to
~:rai,esty on the South-Western Railway. .
,v e hear that it is in, contemplation to invest his
Ili th
Gotha with ttshiatei:ining Duke Ernest Saxe Coburg
rter, at
an honlusignia of the illustrious Order of the
persu,iticAiding
his visit to his honor knight,
Earl
d other
atrlnguished party,hugult relatives in thisher Majesty,
country.he A tlis-
during
Premier,
Aenibie
at winhd:ges of high note, are expected by her
expected Highnesses.
ensuin
t4e4„, "S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The
.an-
s ' "417 dinner of this excellent Institution was given
Za-"'"aY, at the Freemasons' Tavern. The number
v_srlarger thsri that assembled last year, amounting to
~,,`V.!. three hundred. The Chairman was Alderman
i'LllarllllB' whn dye supported by the Sheriffs, Messrs.
ter and Sy, Mr. Giblett, and several other
trerlds of this Charity. In announcing the principal
boast, the Chairman dwelt with tact and feeling on the
se,ll:olent purpose of the Association, vindicated the
bu''Qb.l ty from the assertions made as to their want of
vt,'llitlity some years ago, and pointed with a just de-
of' 4:"2 of triumph to the fact that at present the butchers
_, London expended 1,000/. annually, on fifty-three re-
.l`ZnPiellt3 of their bounty, the men receiving 20L and the
?ials/. per annum. The subscriptions were on the
utmost al liberal. scale, and the evening was passed in the
terJharmony.
AVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND.----Yes-
this".Y a special general meeting of the subscribers to
b fund vim held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir Wm.
!.erhttt, Rse.ll., president, in the chair, to reeeive the
.t'Port of a Committee appointed to investigate the af-
ef the society. The chairman having acknowledged
that the Upon was in a very embarrassed state, called
the
Mr. Crandell, the secretary, to read the report of
'
con
tai enntnittee, which was exceedingly volumnieus, and
aned the recommendation of the Committee to re-
tiee the annuities from 404 to 261. 13s. 4d. ; and also the
t`T'ilion of the law officers of the Crown that they could
a,?t, Make that reduction without an Act of Parliament
ai‘sthorising them to remodel the society. The report
1,47 contained a draft of the Act necessary for those
, . _Pilots. The report was adopted, and thanks were
-'3,est to the Committee and the chairman of the day.
t,,A. VESSEL RUN DowN NEAR GRAVESEND.—LOsS
)4; L11.E.---About three o'clock on Monday morning,
41:hg somewhat foggy, as a vessel named the Ranger,
nut 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, was working
stale
struck the Rall
14P the Itsach for London, a collier brig, also beating
ger in midships with such force as to
't her ahnost instantaneously, carrying with her the
4111140 Ste, Mr. Duffield, wile, it is said, 11, its in the cabin
1•,,,.11" moment and who perished. The rest of the eresn,
irl.,-:r, in /lumber had a narrow efcape. The collier, after
evk'iu,": IaTO. too' r,r several minutes, ih, the ht,pes of
*ll 4$ tip the ill-fated master, proteeueu on to Graves-
“,,whre the crew of the Ranger were landed. Mr.
ertZeld Was a native of Grimsby, whore he has left a
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