The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

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A numerous meeting of the trustees of the Surrey and
Sussex roads was held at the Sessions-house, Newing-
ton, for the purpose of letting the tolls arising at the
several toll-gates and bars in their jurisdiction, namely,
Newington-gate, Kennington-con mon-gate, &c., &c., to
East Grinstead-gate, in the county of Sussex. They
were taken by Mr. Levy for one year at 26,5001.
On the subject of Mr. Newman's alleged letter to Mr.
Williams, the Record says :—" The statement rests on
the authority of Richard Ley, Esq., of Brasenose Col-
lege. He has mentioned Mr. N.'s letter generally to his
friends, and says that be was staying in the same house
with Mr. Williams a month ago, and heard of the said
letter then and there."
John Newman, the Puseyite, was educated at Ealing
School, having entered in May, 1808, and left it for
college in December, 1816. He gained a fellowship at
Oriel afterwards, beating three first class men, and
" went wrong" many years after he left school.
"It is reported," says the Mercantile Journal, "on
authority that we can depend upon, that extensive and
important alterations are contemplated in the mode of
doing business at the Customs, suggested by the Com-
mittee of the late inquiry into Custom-house frauds, and
that the changes will come into operation on or before
Christmas next." It is full time.
Four men, says an American paper, havebeen lynched
in Fannin County by the most sanguinary process.
They are all lately from Missouri, and all notorious for
their rascality before they left. The cause was for bar-
barously murdering and robbing three friendly Indians.
Upwards of 200 persons attended the trial and execu-
tion. Three others, named Benjamin Jones, Jewland,
and Harris, were arrested, and convicted of theft, and
were made to hang the others, and orderod to leave the
country in ten days.

he following is another instance
of the ill effects of trusting to empirical remedies, instead
of resorting to the actual cautery in cases of bites from
mad dogs. An artisan of Nismes, named Paulet, having
been bitten, went to a man living at a considerable dis-
tance, who was reputed to have an infallible remedy.
Having received this in the form of a cake and eaten it,
and paid 15f., Paulet returned home, confiding in its
efficacy. Not many days after, however, he felt severe
pains in the head and stomach, which increased till his
eyes became inflamed like two burning coals, the foam
issued from his mouth in large flakes, and he was so
furious that it was necessary to bind him down on his
bed, where he died after enduring the most frightful suf-
ferings for two days. A new case of hydrophobia in a
horse is mentioned by the Courrier de Nantes to have
occurred at St. Jean de Boisseau. The animal was bitten
by a rabid dog, afterwards killed. The wound, which
was on the eyelid, was cauterised almost immediately,
and a much-vaunted remedy was administered. After
the lapse of a month, the horse became dull, and refused
its food. This being observed, he was put into a stable
by himself, where he soon became furious, biting and
tearing everything he could get hold of, and even his
own flesh, and died in twenty-four hours. Only the day
before he was rode by his owner. We read in the
Quotidienne :—" Several journals announce that a Rus-
sian has discovered a cure for hydrophobia. There is at
present in Paris a Frenchman who has just offered to the
Academy of Medicine a remedy known in his family for
a great number of years. More than 800 cures operated
on men and animals are, it is said, the proofs of the infal-
libility of this remedy. M. T. declares that he can radi-
cally cure persons attacked with hydrophobia even when
at its last stage. He demands to have the remedy tried
on condemned convicts."
THE LUNGS A GALVANIC BATTERY.--Last night,
Dr. Keenan commenced a course of three lectures at
the Western Scientific Institution, on organic chemistry
and physiology, for the purpose of showing that the
lungs act as a galvanic battery, and that the principle on
which animal strength depends is oxygenation of the
food. He founded his theory on the analogy which sub-
sists between the generation of electric force by oxyge-
nation and the muscular stimulus that is given by hydro-
genous food, such as brandy, which he assured his
hearers absorbs oxygen rapidly in the lungs, and there
consequently generates electricity, which therefore pro-
duces motion. Notwithstanding the wretched weather,
the lecture-room was well filled. At the close of the
lecture great sensation was excited by Mr. Robinson
coining forward to protest against the opinions
that had been delivered being received as those
of the Committee who conduct the affairs of
the institution, for they were altogether erroneous.
Dr. Keenan's friends were very clamorous, and voci •
ferated " Order, order," whilst others cheered. Mr.
Robinson undertook, to show, shortly, that 1)r. Keenan's
views were completely fallacious, and that the question
of animal heat had been conclusiveiy settled by Liebeg.
Several of Dr. Keenan's supporters interrupted him, and
many were speaking and shouting at the same time, it
being very evident that, if the electrical theory be cor-
rect, there must have been a large quantity of electricity
generated in the lungs of those who took part in the war
of words. Some proposed a public controversy on some
other evening, but Mr. Robinson was for the time pre-
sent alone, and the disputants came to such close quar-
ters, that there was some danger to apprehend the con-
troversy might not terminate with worth, highly electri-
cal as they were. One gentleman suggested, with great
energy, that, as Dr. Keenan had delivered only his in-
troductory lecture, he should be heard to the end of
the course before the discussion. This proposition seemed
to be generally approved. The scene of confusion lasted
for at least twenty minutes, when the Chairman, to put
a stop to further disputation and clamour, dissolved the
Pleetlng.