The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The following letter has been addressed to
me by M. Nadar, with a request to have it pub.
lished in the London journals. It has referen2e to
a paragraph which has recently appeared in some
newspapers, stating that it is the intention of Lord
Carlingford to dispute the honours of M. Nader,
his lordship claiming for himself, as it seems, the
credit of discovering the principle of aerial
navigation by means of an aerial chariot. The
great interest taken by the public in the question,
at the present time, may induce you to find a place
for M. Nadar's communication.—l am, sir, your
obedient servant,

FERDINAND SILAS.
8, New Burlington-street, London,
Nov. 2, 1863.

My dear Silas,—Please to reply for me, I beg you

to Lord Carlingford, excusing your friend now confined in
bed, telling his lordship that, with my too great French
ignorance of what is taking place abroad, I knew absolutely
nothing of his system of aerial automotion. I rely suffi-
ciently upon the courtesy of Lord Carlingfurd to know that
he will not doubt my word.
" I cannot but congratulate myself on having had the
honour of finding myself on the same ground with Lord
Carlingford; I regret only that on his part he knows so
imperfectly my theory, which is absolutely the contrary of
that which he attributes to me.

" To give you two or three axioms—According to my
views, the guidance of balloons lighter than the atmosphere,
is a problem not only impossible but absurd. This is abun-
dantly demonstrated by the slightest aerostatical practice.
"To contend against the air, it is necessary to be no-
lighter but heavier than air, the same as the bird is specifi-
cally heavier than the air in which it flies. lam persuaded
that the helice (screw) is destined to give to man the posses-
sion of the immense domain which belongs to him, and of
which he would have been master long ago, if he had not,
obstinately followed, since the invention of ballooning, what
in hunting phrase is called a wrong track.

" I beg of you to ~end immediately to Lord Carlingford a
copy of the first number of my journal, l' deronaute, where
these principles are laid down.

" In fine, and that there may be no possible mistake on
the part of anyone regarding what 1 am attempting, I de.
sire to find the necessary resources for the constitution of a
society, which shall be the centre of all hitherto isolated and
therefore lost attempts to solve a question so profound, so
vast, so complex, that it does not seem to belong to a single
individual to achieve it. I have my system, which I believe
to be good, since it is mine ; but I shall aid with all the
strength of my will, and with all the energy of my Perse-
verance, every system which shall be proved to be better
than mine. The question to me is not at all who may have
determined the great problem ; it is that the solution may be
found at last. The fruit is ripe, I long to see it plucked, no
matter by whom ; and this is the sole cause of the agitation
which I have endeavoured to call forth, and which I am now
pursuing.—Yours,

"NADAR,

" Paris, 30th October, 1863."

New Works by English Authors.

MR. HOWARD STAuxTo.*Thas a volume just ready on
"The Great Schools of England."
MR.. CHARLES READE'S NOVEL Or " VERY HARD
CASH," in All the Year Round, will be published shortly
in two or three volumes. It is reported, says the Critic,
that he has been asking £3,000 for the reprint.
Mu. JOHN TI➢SBs has a now volume just ready entitled
"Knowledge for the Time, a Manual for Reading and Re-
ference on Subjects of Living Interest." .

MRS. HOWITT HAS A JUVENILE STORY just ready, en-
titled, " Mrs. ltudd'a Grandchildren."

Miss YONGE has, as usual, a juvenile tale for Christmas,
ready. It is entitled " The Wars of Wapsburgh," and
will be published by Messrs. Groombridge and Sans.

New Works by American Authors,

AIR. BANCROFT is just finishing the final volume of
his History of the United States.

MR. WHITTIER has a volume just ready—" In War
Time, and other Poems."

Ain. EMERSON'S new volume of Essays and Lectures
will be published in 14oston this month.

MR. 0. W. HOLMES is collecting his papers from the
Atlantic Monthly, for publication in a volume entitled
"Soundings from the Atlantic."

TARA's DEATH.—(From the newly-published Mahratta
Tale by Captain Meadows Taylor.)—When Tara was
dying, and the Mouths without were chanting the service
for her departing soul, her eyes seemed once to flash with
a bright radiance, and her husband and children, who were
around her, heard her say gently, " I come, 0 Mother,"
and repeat some Sauscrit words. The prieste, jealous of
her perfect conversion, would have it that she alluded to
Miriam, the Mother of Jesus of Nazareth, for there could
be no other Mother. It might, indeed, be so, for she
seemed of late to have taken a peculiar delight and interest
in this hietory, especially since some Christian monks from
Goa, who had established a mission at the town of Chitta-
pool., only a few miles distant, had come to beg alms of her,
and had told her of the purer faith of Christ, and his loving
mother Mary. It might have been that she spoke of this ;
er, more probably perhaps, that her spirit, trembling on the
brink of the unknown world, had wandered back into the
old days of her trials and deliverances, once ere it departed.

IRON PLOUGHS IN KENT.—These ploughs are
iu some localities superseding the cumbrous wooden ploughs
still in use in this county. On Wednesday last, at Foot's
Cray, there were in one class at a ploughing match no less
than 22 iron ploughs, and the prize was awarded to a
ploughman of Mr. James Allen, with a plough made by
Rutsomes and Sims, Ipswich.