Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-08-06
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
Extract ofa tciter. from ". a. q. az Poris.
discovery Of the greatest importance engages at
this moment the attention OF the physician, the chemist
aud the government. person of the name OF Mango
has discovered that the pyrogneeus acid obtained by
the eistation Of wood has the property OF preventing
the decomposition aud pntrefactoa ofannai substances
II is SUFFICIENT 10 puAsr meat for few moments into
this acid slightly empyfruiaatc, to preserve this
meat long as you may desire. Outlets, Kidneys iiv
ers rabbits, which were prepared as far back as the
month OF july last are row as fresh as n they
been procured from the market have seen earcasses
washed three weeks with pyrcgneous acid IN which
there Is yet no sign OF decomposition Putrefaction not
only stops hut It even reogrades Jakes exbaling in
f.cton cease to do sos as soon you Pour into them
the purifying acid. You may judge how many impor.
tant applications may be made OF this process. Navi
CATION, medicine, unwholesone MANUFACTURER will de-
rive many advantages from IL. Ths explains why meat,
merely dried In stove does MT keep while that which
is smoked becomes unalierable. We have here
PLANTATION ofthe theory of hams ofthe beef of Hamburg
~ smoked tongues, sausascs, red behring's, OF wood
smoked To preserve II from WORMS, &c. &c.
SoRBuric Acip.-A new vegetable acid has been dis
covered. To which the above name has been given In
consequence oft being found in the greatest abundance
In hc mountain ash, aud, We presume. ether varieties
Acid, hut experiments have yet Sufficiently deter
mined its peculiar properties.
FREDuLro, Mr.. Matutin's new tragedy, comes out
next "wednesday at Covenr Garden. We hear that il is
little romantic in plot and often highly pottical in its
dietion. [Lh. GoS. Ldyl.
NEW Yepx, July so.-on Wednesday afternoon a
SHARK was discovered AT Fulton Slip, North River,
the time swimming in The slip. The alarm was no
sooner made, than the boys scrambled of the
as soon as possible black man who present. lost
no time in procuring barpoon which he succeeded in
planting go well, that tue shark conquered,
be neasuteds feet long aud the probability is that
fhe had not been caught be would, this. have de-
voured God knows how many) human beings. IGa=.
CURE FOR THE GoUT....The best cure for the
Govt is TO amply leck poultice 20 the part aeced.-
Numerous instances OF its efficacy In this painful dis.
Order have recently occurred. It's cullure should he
cherished as medicine Of ines,iu,sble value tIG.
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN FRANCE.
PARIS. MAY %.
Lac regulating the publication of Journals.
ARTICLE lst-Every proprietor or editor
of Journal, or any pc riodical work, devoted
wholly or in part TO news or political sub
lects. or appearing either on fixed day, or in
numbers and irresularly, hut more than once
month, shall he required, LIST. To make
declaration stating the name of at least one
proprietor or responsible editor, his place of
abode. and the printing Office, which must be
duly authorised, in which the journal or peri
odical work is printed. I'd. To furnish seem
rty, .,!iich shall be i'm the departments of the
Seine, of the Seine and Disc and Seine and
Marine, TO the amount OF 10 900 is. income for
daily paper. and 5000 francs for journals APP
pearins less frequently. And in the other de.
partRents the security for daily pape,s shall
be $500 francs, in cities OF fifty thousand inha-
bitants and upwards, 1900 in smaller cities,&
the half of these sums fer papers or periodical
works appearing less frequently. The secnri-
ty may be made 6y placing in the puliir offices
the capital of the rent at the rate of the mar
ket on the day of deposit.
2d.-Ihe responsibility of the authors or e.
ditors pointed ont in the declaration, shall ex.
tend to all the articles inserted in the paper or
periodical work. without affecting the respon-
sibiity of The authors or complers Of the said
articles.
Sd The security shall be applied to paw
the expenses, the damages and fines to which
tIa.t 4.
In case of the insutficiency of the security,
there shall be a claim on The property of the
proprietor or editor, declared responsible Tor
tue paper or periodical work, and upon the an.
tnors and compilers ofthe condemned articles.
INSTRUMENTATION incurred may be dis
charged. aud the security exonerated or COM
pleted in fifteen days from the notification of
the sentence. Should the fifteen days eiapse
without the discharge or completion of the Sc
cnrity being made, and until this has been
done, the paper or periodical work must cease
10 appear.
5ih.-At the time of the publication of eve
ry sheet or number of the paper or periodical
work, copy, signed by the proprietor or res
ponslbie editor, shall be RENTED TO the pre-
lecture for those of the ACCOMPLISHMENTS, and
for the other cities of the mayorality. This
roquisiton is neither TO retard nor ts suspend
tina departure or distribution of the paper or
periodical work.
6th.-Whoeyer shall publish paper OF peri.
odcal work, without complying with the cor
ditions prescribed by the first, fourth and fifth
a. ticles of the present law, shall be punished
with an imprisonment of from one to six
mon tbs, and BY fine of from two hundred 10
twelve hundred francs.
7th.-No editor of a paper or periodical
work may give AN account of the secret sit
tings OF the Legislature, or Of either branch of
1t without their authority.
Sth.-Every journal shall he bound to insert
the Official publication which may be address
sed TO il. relative 10 this subject. by the gov
eminent, the day following the day ON which
the articles are sent on the single condition
of the expense of insertion being paid.
0th.-Ibe proprietors or Responsible editors
of q paper OF periodical work, or the authors
or compilers Of articles printed in the said pa
per OF work, accused of crimes and Offences of
publication, shall be prosecuted and tried in
the forms and according to the distinction pre-.
scrfbed with regard to all other publications.
l0th.-ID case the condemnation, the same
punishments will be applied To them. At all
times the fines may be doubled, and In case of
repetition of the offence made fourfold without
regard TO the punishment for repetition of the
offence pronounced by the penal code
ilth.-Ihe editors OF the paper or periodical
work shall be bound to insert in one of the
sheets or numbers which shall appear I'm the
course of the month"; of the jud gmen or of the
dscfre given against Them, an extract contain
ing the motives and the grounds of the said
judgment or decree.
iZtb.--The breaking of the articles 9TH, 9Th
and nth Of tho present law shall be punished
by fine of from i0s'to 1000 francs.
l5th.-Ihe prosecutions to which the in
fraction of the eth, Sih and Ilth articles may
give occasion, mnst he commenced within the
space OF three months from the time of viola
ton.
NoTE.-This law viii probably be sanction
ed by the King, Inserted the same day in the
Bulletin OF Laws and will consequently bear
HE date of May 29tb, 1919.
From The Netc York G1zefie.