The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

It is very satisfactory to know that the result o:

these trials was most successful, and the senders
of messages were amazed to find the answers printed
almost before they thought that their own sentences
were complete. Professor HUGHES has already met
with considerable encouragement in many quarters
for his valuable instruments, and it must be a re-
newed source of gratification to him to be yet more
extensively appreciated. If the subsequent expe-
rience of time carries out at all the auspicious pro-
spects of the opening investigation, the directors of
the United Kingdom Telegraph Company will re-
joice that they have adopted the invention
for themselves. A great advantage is, that
this system does away with signs, which
caused so much confusion and created so much
error, as it is capable of being employed by any one
who can read. The saving of time will be an im-
mense advantage, in not having to write the mes-
sages before despatching them ; and, altogether,
there seems but one opinion to prevail with regard
to the happy fulfilment of the design of this inge_

nious apparatus. Men like Professor HUMUS are

great social benefactors; while they aid the march
of mind by their interesting discoveries, and skil-
ful adaptations of science to suit the exigencies of
an advancing age, they also confer practical advan-
tages on the community, which are at once under
stood and completely appreciated even by those
who have not leisure to investigate the particulars,
or intellect enough to comprehend the principles
on which these schemes are founded, and these
iiventions applied.

M. Thiers, it is said, has refused the offer made
him by the electors of Saint-Jean d'Angely (Charente-
Inferieure), to bring him forward as their candidate at the
next elections.

The Discusszone of Turin publishes a letter from
Madame Ristori, announcing her intention to perform at
Naples one night for the benefit of the sufferers from bri-
gandage.

A discovery has lately been made of a nettle of
enormous size growing in the Fort at Periapatum, in the
Mysore territory, and which produces a beautiful fibre like
flax.

The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has received
two parcels of samples of cotton—one from Mr.
Ovans, assistant collector of Poona, containing a variety
of samples of kuppas and cotton, the produce of ryots in
the Indapore districts of the Poona collectorate ; and the
second from Mr. Bethcombe, of Kurrachee. The samples
submitted by Mr. Ovens are pronounced very inferior, and
those byMr. Betheombe are quite unexceptionable, and cap-
able of competing succe-sfully wit h the best qualities of the
American and Egpytian qualities.
entail2the Debats sta'es
As an instance of the sums required for the keep-
itnhgat upth
eo of
additionalt h e army
day
yd
(nearly innalsZpinyeFarra(nleBe6,4), the budget for
which has just been laid before the Corps Legislatif, will
00,000 f (£8,000) in the navy estimates; in
the war, and
in all 74.5,000 f
letter
rcfreraosme of 54&0001 (£2l,800)
de £30,000) for one single day's expenditure of two
departments alone.
Innspruck states that the Austrian
Ministry has de facto decided the question of the admission
Tyro;, of Protestants into the T by authorising the construe-
, tion of a Protestant churchy at Meran.