The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-26 00:00:00

PASSENGERS REGULATION BILL.

The following is an abstract of the Bill now going
through the House of Commons, to regulate the
carriage of passengers in merchant vessels from the
United Kingdom, to the Continents, and islands of
America.

Section 1. That no ship shall sail from any port
of the United Kingdom or its Dependencies to the
Continent, or islands of North America, with more
persons on board than in the proportion of four per-
sons for every three tons of the registered burthen of
such ship, and that no ship shall carry any such
passengers unless there be a space of five feet and
a-half between decks. Two children under the age
of fourteen, and three under the age of seven, to be
computed as one person.
Sec. 2. There must be good and wholesome
provisions on board such ships, for the consumption
of the passengers, to the amount of 60 gallons of
water for every person, and 50 pounds of bread, bis-
cuit, or oatmeal for every person, Captain and crew
included.

By the 4th section, a list of the passengers is to
be delivered by the Captain to the Collector of Cus-
toms at the port where the ship clears out, and a
counterpart of such list to the collector er chief
officer at the port where the passengers shall be
landed.

By subsequent sections, the master of such ship
incurs a penalty of twenty pounds for putting
any passenger ashore without his or her consent;
and also a penalty of twenty pounds for every
passenger taken above the proportion mentioned
in the first section; and also a penalty of 100/. for an
offence against the enactment respecting provisions,
or for neglecting to deliver a list of the passengers.
And for more effectually carrying these provisions
into effect, the Master or Captain is obliged to enter
into a bond for 1,000/. The act not to affect
Post-office packets, nor to extend to the Bahama

DEATH OF TILE RIGHT REV. DR. TUO/I Y,
R. C. Bisuor OF LimEnrcir.—On Monday evening, at
his residence, Newtownrille, near Limerick, at the advanced
age of 74, the Right Rev. Citts. Tcrolrv, D.D., Roman
Catholic Bishop of Limerick for the last fourteen years.—
On Tuesday morning, the remains of Dr. TUOMY were
conveyed to John's Chapel and laid out in the centre aisle,
with the usual forms, and on Wednesday, after Office and
High Mass, were removed for interment to St. Patrick's
Church-yard, followed by an immense concourse of every
persuasion.—Dublin Morning Register.
THE GASTRIC JUICE.—It is found by che-
mical experiments, that tho juice which is in the stomach
of animals (called the gastric juice, from a Greek word
signifying the belly) has very peculiar properties. Though
it is, for the most part, a tasteless, clear, and seemingly, a
very simple liquor, it nevertheless possesses extraordinary
powers of dissolving substances which it touches or mixes
with ; and it varies in different classes of animals. In one
particular it is the same in all animals ; it will not attack
living matter, but only dead ; tho consequence of which is,
that its powers of eating away and dissolving are perfectly
safe to the animals themselves, in whose stomachs it re-
mains without ever hurting them. This juice differs in
different animals, according to the food on which they sub-
sist ; thus, in birds of prey, as kites, hawks, owls, it only
acts upon animal matter, and does not dissolve vegetables.
In other birds, and in all animals feeding on plants, as
oxen, sheep, hares, it dissolves vegetable matter, as grass,
but will not touch flesh of any kind. This has been ascer-
tained by making them swallow balls with meat in them,
and several holes drilled through to let the gastric juice reach
the meat; no effect was produced upon it. There is
a most curious and beautiful correspondence between this
juice in the stomach of the different animals and the other
parts of their bodies, connected with the important opera-
tions of eating and digesting their food. The use of the
juice is plainly to convert what they eat into a fluid, from
which, by various other processes, all their parts, blood,
hones, muscles, &c. are afterwards formed. But the food
is first of all to be obtained, and then prepared by bruising,
for the action of the juice. Birds of prey have instru-
ments, their claws and beaks, for tearing and devouring
their food (that is, animals of various kinds), but those in-
struments are useless for picking up and crushing seeds;
accordingly they have a gastric juice which dissolves the
animals they eat; while birds which have only a beak fit
for pecking and eating seeds, have a juice that dissolves
seeds, and not flesh. Nay, more, it is found that the seeds
must be bruised hefore the juice will dissolve thein ; this
you find by trying the experiment in a vessel with the
juice ; and, accordingly, the birds have a gizzard, and
animals which graze have flat teeth, which grind anti
bruise their food before the gastric juice is to act upon it..
—olyects of Science.