The Sun. — 1832-01-20 (London, England)

LISBON, JAN. I.—The Gazette contains a long article on the events of the year, 1831, which it says has been remarkable for the struggle between the opposite principle, of legitimacy and revolution, the result of which has proved the moral strength of the first, and the weakness of the second. As proof is alleged the defeat of liberalism, which bad concentrated its hopes and a powerful force at Warsaw, when the bulwarks which it had raised for its protection were overturned, and of the number of combatants that rebellion had in its service, only some poor fragments dispersed among different nations now remained, affording an irrefragable proof of the madness of their enterprise, and the signal triumph of the good conic. The fate of Torrijos and his countrymen is adduced as another instance of the triumph of the good cause. The article concludes with an eulogium on the brave Portuguese nation, and its loyalty and attachment to its magnanimous Sovereign. The LisbonlGazettes to the 7th Jan. inclusive, con tjin lists of promotions_in the, army, of voluntary sub icriptions, &c., but no political news.  The opposition to Mr. WARBURTON'S Anatomy Bill is of a kind that reflects but little credit on the sagacity of its opponents, and is moreover of mischievous tendency, as it tends to perpetuate those prejudices which writers like Mr. COBBETT delight in diffusing among the poor. Nothing can be more unfounded in fact, than the allegation that the Bill is designed to harrass the poor, for the convenience of the rich, nor can there be a greater misrepresentation of its object, than to say the effect of the Bill will not eventually be highly beneficial to the lower orders, inasmuch as it will not only secure to them a better supply of medical aid than at present, but will guard them against being the victims of those miscreants, who find a temptation to murder in the existing state of the law. .  Let any man of common understanding refer to the letter addressed by the Council of the College of Surgeons to Lord MELBOURNE, on the 10th of December last, and they will find a clear and satisfactory statement of the miKhiefs arising from the present system. If we only take example by the practice in France, and elsewhere on the continent, we shall find abundance of precedents according to which our law may be improved, and Mr. VL.TARBURTON'S Bill is perhaps as well calculated to reconcile difficulties as any plan that could have been proposed. There may perhaps be some matter for consideration in the point whether it would be well "to regulate the teaching of anatomy by license, so as to preserve an accurate register of the bodMs consigned for dissection ; but we infer that the College of Surgeons do not look very favour,ably on this plan ; and it is, at all events, clear that no such register can be kept until dissection is legalized, and the protection of the law is afforded to the study of anatomy in general. The public have far more concern in this matter than the College of Surgeons, and indeed than any medical men who have completed their professional studies. The people want protection against the disgusting traffic in human bodies—they want the horrible Burking system to be brought to an end, and they desire to see substituted for it such a law as Mr. WARBURTON'S, in order to supply a proper quantity of anatomical subjects to enable the study of the science to be legally and openly carried on.  We noticed a short time since an interview between Mr. STEVENS, the inventor of the safety steam-paddles, and the LORD MAYOR, in which the latter, as the municipal head of the metropolis, promised to promote the publicly important objects of the invention, namely, a better propulsive effect from the application of a given power, the total avoidance of the swell of back-water occasioned by the wheels now in use, and the greater facility afforded to steam-vessels er. performing long voyages in the use of their sails. Since then the formation of a Company has been commenced in Belgium, under the sanction of the Belgic Government, to navigate the canals of that country by steam-vessels, according to the method invented by Mr. STEVENS, who is to prepare a boat forthwith, to run on the canal between Ostend _and Bruges, as the first on th  line to Brussels ; and we have much pleasure in adding, asa proof of the Interest taken by King LEOPOLD in the improvement of commercial intercourse, that his MAJESTY'S signature stands at the head of the list of share-holders.