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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1803.

men and money to found a regular Government in
Mexico." The answer is ready. "In the present
state of the civilisation of the world.,—the prospe-
rity of America is not a matter of indifference to
Earope, for it is that country which feeds our ma-
nufactories and giN es an impulse to our commerce."
Even the prosperity of the United States is an ob-
ject of interest to Europe, as the present state
of its cotton manufactures show. But there is
more in it than this—it is just here that the value
of an independent power of the Latin Race should
regain " all its strength and prestige," should gua-
rantee the Gulf of Mexico, and the French and
Spanish West India colonies, against the dreams of
Yankee Empire, and establish for France " a friendly
influence in the centre of America." Such are the
magnificent and generous plans of the EMPEROR.
Had they been those of England, we know the
shower of abuse which would have followed from
the great Republic; how France will bo treated
remains to be seen. Bitterly indeed must the pre-
sence of the Spaniards in Hayti, and the French in
Mexico be felt by the Northerns. Even the South
will not like the pre-occupation of a country it had
destined to slavery ; but like it or dislike it, we are
not to expect that the EMPEROR has published this
letter to be laughed at.

Last Monday there was a very interesting experi-
ment made with the apparatus designed by Professor
HUGHES. The United Kingdom Electric Telegraph
Company is desirous of adopting this design that
has been successfully tried in America and in some
parts of Europe. The account given of the meeting
which assembled to watch the proceedings is very
entertaining. The Mayor of Birmingham initiated
the inquiries by the following words :—" His Wor-
ship the Mayor of BißmiNGllam:anticipates the plea-
sure of a conversation, by the HUGHES' Printing
Telegraph, with the Lord Mayor of LONDON." To
this was returned the following suitable reply :
"The Lord Mayor of LONDON presents his compli-
ments, by the Printing Telegraph, to the Mayor of
BIRMINGHAM, and joins in his congratulations upon
electricity being seized upon and put in print. The
universalisation of the electric telegraph will be
promoted the more familiar it becomes, and the
more it approaches in the methods of its communi-
cation to simple existing types, the Printing Tele-
graph certainly appears a complete step in this
direction." After these formal civilities had been
interchanged, some smart questions and sharp re-
joinders were next employed to test the merits of
this novel scheme. On some well-known tidings
being sent as news, one person indignantly ex-
claimed, "It is reported here that Queen ANNE IS
dead;" to which the Birmingham informant
answered, "And here that the Federals are in New
York." Several other trials were made, and the
result proved highly satisfactory to those engaged.
The arrangements of Professor HUGHES'S ap-
paratus appear very simple. There is a row of
black and white keys, similar to an organ or a
pianoforte, only of considerably smaller compass,
which are the means employed to execute the
design. The printing is done by a wheel, on the
edge of which is engraved the alphabet and nume-
rals. The electric current is employed to release a
small rod, which brings the strip of paper momen-
tarily into contact with the wheel, and thus
receives the impress of the letter next to it. The
manipulator effects this process by touching
the key on the board which answers to the name
of the letter. The principle upon which the appa-
ratus is based is that of a synchronous movement
of clockwork trains driven by weights, the regula-
tion being effected by vibrating rods. The follow-
, in g account is most interesting to study :—" The
electrical waves are transmitted by a revolving
arm, carrying the segment of a circle as a contact-
maker, and the arm revolves at the same speed in
each apparatus as the type-wheel; when a key
is pressed a metal plate in connection
with the buttery is forced upwards and meets
the contact-maker as it revolves, scrapes along its
surface, the current passing the while, and is then
thrown back by the contact-maker, and brought to
its normal position of rest by a constant spring.
The letters are printed while the type-wheel is in
revolution, and the type-wheel is driven by friction,
which alio NS of its being moved backwards or for-
wards by mcchanicll means. Each apparatus re-
gisters the signals sent by it, and all letters are
produced at the distant end by a single wave of
electricity."

It is very satisfactory to know that the result of
these trials was most successful, and the senders
of messages were amszed 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-
-1 ricuce 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 dm 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 HUGHES 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 mice under-
stood and completely appreciated even by those
who have not leisure to investigate the particulars,
or intellect enough to comprehend the principles
on whicli these schemes are founded, and these
inventions 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
INlysore 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 Indepop 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. Bethcombe are quite unexceptionable, and cap-
able of competing succe,:• sfully with the best qualities of the
American and Egpytian qualities.
As an instance of the sums required for the keep.
lup of the army and navy in France, the Debats ta'es
that.,,the additional day in leap year (1864), the budget for
,
h has just been laid before the Corps Legislatif, will
tntail
departments alone. X ,
an
3'"o
far increase of 545,000 f (£21,800) iu the war, and
200,000 f
DO) in. the navy estimates; in all 745,000 f
(nearly 30
ono single day's expenditure of two

A letter from Innspruck states that the Austrian
Ministry has de facto decided the question of the admission
of Protestants into the Tyroi, by authorising the construc-
tion of a Protestant church at Meran.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JAN. 20, Evening.

Admiral Bustillos has consented to accept the
Ministry of Marine, but will not yet enter upon his
functions, remaining on leave of absence on account
of ill health.

All the Liberal members of the Opposition, but
only a section of the Conservatives, have resolved
to support the Ministry.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JAN. 20.

The Norddeutsche Zeitung of to-day says :--
" e learn from the best sources that all pros-
pect of an understanding between Prussia and
Austtia on the Customs' question has been most
positively renounced by the President of the Prus-
sian Ministry. The President has even declared
he would give notice of tha intention of Prussia
to quit the ollverein, in order to remove the
vague engagement relative to Austria into which
the Zollverein entered by the treaties of 19th Feb.
and 4th April, 1853."
The Norddeutsche Zeitung adds:—

"It is not impossible that this decided refusal of
Prussia to come to an understanding with Austria
was tho principal reason why the projected meet..
ing of the Prussian and Austrian Ministers did not
take place."

RUSSIA.

ST'. PETERSBURG, lAN. 20.

The Commission appointed by the Government
to propose reforms in the system of taxation, has
recommended a reduction of the duties on the im-
partation of refined sugar during four years, the
reduction to be effected at the rate of half a roue
yearly until the duties upon the importation of
refined sugar by land and sea stand at the uniform
rate of three roubles per pood.

EGYPT.
CAIRO, JAN. 19.

The obsequies of his Royal Highness Said Pachs,
the late Viceroy of Egypt, were celebrated yester-
day.

A great concourse was present at the ceremony.

Ismail Pacha has taken possession of the Citadel,
and received the authorities. Public opinion is
very favourable to the new Viceroy. All the
foreign Consuls, and the Turkish authorities, have
arrived here from Alexandria. They were im-
mediately received by Ismail Pacha.

THE MAILS.
Up to the hour of going to press the usual con.
tinental mails had not reached ns.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 21.

The Moneteur of this morning says in its bulletin
" Independently of the subscriptions opened for
the workmen of the Seine Inferieure, the Emperor
has sent to the Prefects the sum of 100,000 f., to be
distributed among the different manufacturing
towns."

The M oniteur also says :
" The news that the French had entered Puebla
does not bear a character of incontestible authenti-
city ; but as coming from a source little favourable
to the French, it is scarcely probable that it should
be unfounded.'

MALTA.

VALETTA, JAN. 15.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Mega/re, Com-
mander S. H. Henderson, arrived here on the 11th
inst., at 10 p m., from Woolwich (18 days), and Gib-
raltar (four). The hlegmra left Gibraltar on the
morning of the 7(h inst., having been detained there
by heavy weather. She passed the Peninsular awl
Oriental Company's steamer Delta on the after-
noon of the 9th. After discharging naval stores
for this place, she proceeds on to Corfu ibis
morning, taking with her two officers, one
lady, one child, 27 non-commissioned officers
and men, three women, and 14 children of
different regiments. The Aleg ra is to visit the
several islands, to relieve the detachments of troops
stationed there.

Her Majesty's ship Mars, Captain J. N. Strange,
17 days from Malta, arrived at Gibraltat on the
2d inst., and after replenishing coal left for England
on the 3d inst. Her Majesty's ship London, Cap-
tain Chads, arrived there on the morning of the
4th, also 17 days from Malta, and left for Eng-
land on the following Wednesday. Her Majesty's
screw ram Defence, 18, Captain Phil)imore,_ six
days from Madeira, arrived at the same time as
m i
the London, having co
mein n from the Channel
squadron for bread and provisions, to convey to
Lisbon, where her Majesty's ships Revenge (bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Smart), Black Prince,
and Resistance were expected to arrive on or about
the 4th inst. ; the Firebrand, 6, Commander Piers,
and the Procri3, gunboat, remaining at Gibraltar.

The noted steamer Sumter was at anchor, appa-
rently reedy for sea, with sails bent, and closely
watched by two American men-of-war, although
she is said to have been purchased by an English
company. It is understood that the British
Government have refused to grant her protection
on the high seas.
Her Majesty's surveying paddlewheel steamer
Medina, Lieutenant-Commander G. Wilkinson
(temporary), returned on Tuesday evening from
Salonica, where she has been engaged during
haSsurgvoetyitnhgrough a good deal
neighbourhood,the summer the Gulf and its
of difficult and intricate work. It will, however,
months,and
take some time to complete the survey. She left
Atherada, near Salonica, on the 27th ult.,for Malta,
calling at Remo, the ancient port of Pergamos, to
ship a colossal torso, discovered there by Captain
Spratt, some two or three years ago, which is to
be sent home for the British Museum. She spoke
the Foxhound, 4, Commander the Hon. A. C.
Hobart, on the IOVI instant, off the Island of
Bellopoulo, who reported her Majesty's ship
Queen at Nauplia, on the 9th inst., all well,'' and,
on the same day, sighted a Russian line of-battle
ship steering towards Athens, A report that some
Greek pirates had been captured by the French gun-
boat Mouette is unfounded. It is believed that the
piratical boat has been hauled up in the Gulf of Bagh-
cheh, in the vicinity of Smyrna, and that the crew
bad dispersed, finding it impossible to carry on
their nefarious practiJes, owing to the vigilance of
the English, French, Austrian, and Turkish cruisers,
which had been sent in pursu.t of them—not before,
however, they bad plundered three or tour Turkish
vessels, the master of one of which is said to have
been murdered.

morning:seapt ,
o T.
theF olr3ttehs c
junes,t leftt,or Malta
h,
ct:sire'bh.:uPrltobies tbreported her orders are to anchor there
for a short time, and then to cruse in the Malta
Channel, reporting herself daily by signal to the
CA:amender-in-Chief. She is expected to return
into port on the 23d jest.

TIIE SERVICES AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—In
consequence of the thorough cleansing which the
various portions of this ancient edifice aro at present un-
dergoing., the week •day services will, to the end of the pre-
sent month, I.e held in Heiry the Seventh's Chapel, and
on Sunday next, the 25th inst., the service will be entirely
suspended.

DISPATCH OF THE INDIA, CHINA, AND AUS`
TRALIAN MAILS —:3OIJTHAMPTON, Jan. 20.—Tho
Peninsular anti Oriental Company's steam ship Ripon,
Captain Christian, sailed hence to-day at 3 p.m , with the
mails for Gibraltar, the :Mediterranean, Egypt, Men,
Ceylon, Mauritius, India (except Bombay), China, Aus-
tralia, and New Zealand, together with 160 passengers.
The Ripon took out freight 347 boxes specie, £135,813,and
a full cargo of gtuf;r4l