The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, 10th Dec., 1860.

The second circular of M. de Persigny has pro-
duced here by no means so good an impression as
that issued by the new Minister of the Interior on
his first taking possession of his portfolio. The
document is looked upon as " a heaty blow and
great discouragement " to the hopes which the
language of his first circular to some extent
encouraged, of a really liberal measure being
about to be introduced forthwith, for removing
the present state of thraldom under which the
press labours, There is a general disposition, how-
ever, to put faith in the good intentions of the Em-
peror; as well as in the good will of M. de Persigny,
People ate conbinced that the latter will unhesi3
tatingly carry into practice the piiritiples Which
he proclaims, as regards the liberty of disctssing
all the acts of the Government and of the Admi-
nistration provided and so long as no attack be
made upon the Imperial throne, nor upon the
institutions of the State. But whilst full justice
is thus done to the intentions of the minister, it
is made matter of regret that he has not thought
it his duty to abandon entirely the system of
goternment notices; which, in spite of all the
goad wishes df the GoVernMent toward the press,
must alwayS continue to hal-riper the liberty of
the writer. This is the view taken almost unani,
mously by the principal Paris journals, such as
the Debats, the Presse, and the Siecle, and also
by the Gazette de France and the Pays. The
Patrie and the Constitutionnel alone approve of
the eiretilar, and that almost unreservedly.
It ig stated that Lutd Cowley will
soon either reMgii iil anllidse'adoiship et be re-:
moved, and that Lord eaiiiiitiO is id come hoiiii
from India for the purpose of suecailing
Lord Elgin is also named for the post ; hitt the
recent news from China makes it very unlikely
that this nobleman will be in Europe for some
time to come.

There is a report that Francis 11., after quitting
Gaeta, is to follow the example of his uncle, and
come to Paris, kit the origin of this rumour is
no dmilSt traceable to the circumstance of the un-
forttinate young monarch having el/pressed him-
selP iii such grateful terms towards the Emperor
in his last State paper.

Marshal Malakoff goes td Algeria on the 28tha
His allowance as Governor will not lie less Chad
£20,000 a year ; a munificent traitenzeiii of ti
Frenchman. But it is stated that there is nd
suitable residence for the new Viceroy at Algiers,
and that it has been necessary to transport the
seat of government to Blidah, which is no less
than 35 miles from the capital of French Africa.
Her Majesty the Empress is expected to arrive
in the course of to-day. M. de Persigny intends
returning to London, as the Countess's state of
health has become rather serious.
There was a grand dinner at the Tuileries on
Saturday, at which were Prince Napoleon and
the Prineess Ciothilde, Count and Countess
Walewski, and a large party. It is some time
since the Prince was received by the Emperor,
and report says the footing on which they stand
towards each other is by no means a friendly
one.

At the end of the last sitting of the Institute of
France, which was a very stormy one, Doctor
Beatigrand read a very interesting paper descrip-
tive of the happy effects which had been obtained.
by administering the perchloride of iron in large
doses, in those formidable throat diseases which
science has denominated angina and diphtheria.
During the last century the perchloride of iron
enjoyed a great medical reputation at Bt. Peters-
burgh, and made a great noise at the Court of
Russia, under the name of " tincture of
Bertuchef," or " Bertuchef's drops." The
remedy, after having been made known
extensively in Germany,. found its way into
France, where it was called "Elixir d'or," or
"General Lamotte's Drops;" and General Lamotte
in fact introduced it into Paris, where it was sold
at the rate of 20 francs a flask. Louis XV.,
thought he was sending the Pope a present worth
receiving when he forwarded him two hundred
flasks of the mixture. In 177, the Empress
Catherine of Russia purchased the original receipt
of Bertuchef for 3,000 roubles, and caused it to be
made public. Like most other things in this
world, however, this extraordinarily famous elixir
cl'or lessened in reputation by degrees, and the
perchloride of iron, which so long occupied such
a high place in public estimation, gradually sunk
into oblivion. After an eclipse of sixty years,
it has at length regained a large share of its
former reputation, tb alike to the progress of modern
chemistry. In 1850, an eminent physician of
Lyons, Dr. Pravax, discovered the property
which this perchloride possesses of coagulating
blood. He availed himself of that property to
cure aneurisms, by injecting some drops of the
liquid into the interior of the " sac" of the
aneurismal tumour. Since the death of Dr.
Pravax, M. Deleau, the head physician of
Roquette, has been the most fervent apostle of
the again celebrated medicine, and for the last
six years he has been engaged in studying its
favourable action on the digestive organs, the
results of his experience having been published
by him in an excellent volume, entitled " Practical
Treatise on the Application of Perchloride of
Iron in Medicine," which I hereby recommend
to the medical and other readers of the Daily Times
The precious medicament, which possesses pro-
perties analogous to those of iodine, mercury
and nitrate of silver (caustic), gave rise to an
important discussion in the Imperial Academy of
Medicine, which lasted for two months, and
afforded, during the progress of it, numberless
illustrations of the truth of the adage that
" Doctors differ." It has, however, been adopted,
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of Sciences ; and we behold Bertuchef's Drops
again launched on a new career of celebrity.

ITALY.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

TURIN, Dec. 6th.

King Victor is daily expected to return to
Naples, and it is said that the Prince de Carignan
will go thither, and the Hereditary Prince to
Florence, it being intended to establish a sort of
Court in these two cities.

Here the Neapolitan soldiers who are willing
to take the oath to our Government are being
enrolled, but a great number of them refuse to
take service with our army, on the ground that
they are still bound by the oaths which they
have taken to Francis 11., a resolution which
proves that the sentiment of honour is far from
extinct in the Neapolitan army ; it also presents
a favourable contrast to the acts of treason which
have dishonoured the revolution of Naples, so far
as the officers of that army were concerned, and
also to the present voracity of the numerous
placehunters everywhere. A royal decree has
appointed a commission to regulate the position
of the officers who belonged to the regular army
of Naples, and to fix the obligations and con-
ditions of service to be come under by them,
amongst which is an oath of fidelity to Victor
Emmanuel and his dynasty. The death of the
Count of Syracuse has relieved the Government
from a great deal of embarrassment. It did not
know what to do with this unfortunate Prince,
and his death has put an end to the difficulty
The admission of General Nunziantc, who came
over to us from the Neapolitans, into the ranks,
of our army produced such a bad effect thlit
it was impossible to give the Prince any post
whatever ; nor has the Government ventured to.
do anything with M. Liborio Romano, who so.
suddenly sank into obscurity.
I am able to give you some interesting details
regarding Garibaldi. I saw a person yesterday
morning who had just arrived from Caprera, who
told me that Garibaldi had sent back all the
aides-de-camps who accompanied him to the
island, and that the only persons now with him
were his son and daughter, and his friend and
countryman, Deideri. His private secretary,
Basso, is of course with him, but the sole occupa-
tion of the latter is to open and to read the enor-
mous correspondence which arrives at Caprera,
from all quarters of the world. In some of these
letters there are some things strange and incre-
dible, as well as propositions of every conceivable
kind. For example, Dr. Recotti, a distinguished
physician of Turin, and a great partisio f the
science of phrenology, wrote to Garibaldi, the
other day, to implore him to let him have the use
in order that he
of his head for a few seconds,
might thus be able to study one which was the
best organised and the most remarkable that he
knew, adding that he was ready to go to Caprera
at a moment's notice for this
purpose .
I am sorry to learn that
the island was lately
the scene of an o volt which shows the extremes