The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

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find some traces of its Bu'4Equent came
of the trea etitit4ke..s ,114
discovery of the recipient
subsequet 30et 4s;r
much holy matters, as he h:LL "see se,-
ons that it Laity yet!'"
during a removal. So the sem ch is stiltitring, olaiFeeas4:7'4.
and there are sanguine expectats
be found—possibly converted hest° a salt-box by
some thrifty housewife. Not very long ago there
was living an old man who had b. e. many years
been employed at Soho, and who rel.'s, ted how the
wise men used to come there at each full:
moon, and
used to sit very late at night, and that he' remem-
bered Mr. Boulton and some of them once
took a
picture of the house, and had to go into a dark ,Place
during the process.
So far the evidence as to the metal plates, whie:l9
if substarstiated, will go far to prove that the dise
coveries of Niopee and Daguerre were anticipated.
by Boulton, it may possibly prove more; for the re-
semblance between these plates and the early pro.
ductions of
Daguerres ,is really marvellous if only
accidental, and
it' no tiese:s be found to connect the
two processes. But the eUrther evidence already
obtained as to the pictures al paper discovered at
Soho presents quite a tangle of curious circum-
stances. From invoices and OS-her office papers, alt
bearing date about the end of see last century, it is
evident that these pictures, however ieroduced, were
actually sold at Soho in large quantiL'ics, and at low
e'
prices. The demand for them was greet
pains appear to have been taknt. and con-
siderable to pre-
vent the method of their production beeelming
generally known. So there must exist a scrge
number of them at the present time, scatter,sd
through various collections and portfolios. Tees
glazy surface, the porous, rough, water-marked,
foolscap paper, bearing Whatman's impress and
the reversed figures, will distinguish them; for their
appearance on cursory examination very much
resembles that of the common coloured mezzotints
which our grandsires so much affected.
It appears that Sir William Beatty painted.
Boulton's portrait about 1794, the picture being
subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy. Ho
was horrified on being shown a number of paper
pictures similar to those recently discovered; and.
he got up a petition, signed by a number of artists,
entreating that the manufacture of these pictures
might be stayed, as it would inevitably ruin the
picture trade. A sort of foreman of Boulton's, named
Edginton, appears to have superintended the produc-
tion of these pictures, if he did not actually discover
the process by which the transfer to paper was done.
Several of his letters are extant:referring to the subse-
quent colouring Which some of the pictures under-
went ;:none of them, however, afford any clue as to
the original method of their production. But a
little later, and after the alarm was taken by they
artists, we find a talk of granting Edgington a
Government pension. This fell through because of a
curious autograph letter of Matthew Bouiton's
which has been fortunately found. In this letter,
officially addressed to the Minister, he claims for
himself the discovery of the process on account of
which Edgington's annuity had been contemplated
he intimates his knowledge that the grant was only
intended to ensure the discontinuance of the pro-
ass, suggests that he could arrange this in a
much more certain way, and concludes his letter
with a strong hint that he is open to be dealt with.
Whatever ensued as the result of this letter, it
seems very clear that the production of the pictures
was thenceforward discontinued.
Here the evidence comes to an end so far as re-
gards these curious paper pictures, and the silvered
plates which the highest authorities refer to about
the year 1791. In this same year, Thomas Wedge
wood, son of the famous potter, was certainly at
work on photography, as is shown by his bills and
orders for apparatus and chemicals. At the meet-
ing of the Photographic Society there was exhibited,
side by side with the above-mentioned metal plates,
a photograph of a neatly laid breakfast table, taken
upon paper by Wedgwood, and the information
about it tended to the conclusion that it also was
done in the year 1791. Thus far we have written the
history of this curious discovery in accordance with.
the evidence laid before the Photographic Society;
but still there are many links wanting before it can.
be taken as proved that the pictures found at Soho
were produced by photography. If it shall be shown
that they were so produced, then it will also be
eetablished that at that time photographic feats
were done which we cannot now-a-days accom-
plish. For it has been proved by chemical analysis
that these pictures do not contain a trace of silver,
and must, therefore, if of photographic origin, have
been lost to us. That au art promising such great
results should have been suffered to die out, is in
itself curious in these days of diffusion of know-
ledge; but st:11 more remarkable is the double co-
incidence existing between the independently pro-
duced metal and paper photographs of Buulton
and Wedgwood, of 1791, and of Daguerre and Fox
Talbot in 1839.

The Addresses of Loyalty from Lithuania.

The C:as publishes addresses to the National
Government, signed by 249,646 inhabitants of
Lithuania, protesting against the measures adopted
by Mouravieff in extorting from the nobility ad-
dresses of loyalty to the Czar. The following is a
translation of the address from the palatinate of
Wilna

The Inhabitants of the Palatinate of Wilna to the National
Government.
In the midst of the bloody war of independence against
Russia, in which all classes of society in Lithuania take an
heroic part, the late marshal of the Wilna palatinate drew
up an address to the Czar of Muscovy, expressing senti-
ments of loyalty on behalf of the nobility, after which the
Muscovite authorities called upon the nobles to confirm
this base document by their signatures.
The noble-hearted men who by refusing to sign suffered
the loss of their property, exile to Siberia, or a martyr's
death, have already given to the world a glorious testimony
of the means used by Muscovy in obtaining signatures.
Their blood innocently shed, their boundless sacrifices,
proved on the ono hand how Muscovy feels herself deprived
of every lawful footing in Lithuania; how, having no real
rights, she strives to invent imaginary ones ; and how she
can only obtain these by the use of the most savage com-
pulsion—and on the other hand, that addresses and signa-
tures which arc obtained by armed force, by threats of Siberia
or the gallows, by murder, destruction, and imprisonment
lose all the significance they might otherwise have had.
But even an apparent abandonment of the country's
cause is painful to the hearts of Poles, in whom the love of
their country has become almost a religion. We, there-
fore,t the undersigned inhabitants of the Wilna palattnic
Muscovy to
both those who have been forced by
this false document and those who have not yet beeniv,
exposed to that dreadful trial, hereby protest °ll'en't.
against both the spirit and the letter of the addres! which
has been forwarded to the Czar, and withdraw and
my.
pro-
claim to be null the signatures which have biteile
from us by force. We reject all connection with
development
extorted
which is opposed to our national spirit and We re-
otoo try.
of our civilization and the wants of the cin we are united
new our oath of fidelity to Poland, to whoour
ancestors at
ble mutual glory and
by an indissoluble bond,
Horadlo and Lublin, and confirmed by
subsequent mutual
sworn to
happiness of five centuries,
of her independence
anhdie°our dear country until
sufferings. We wish to serve
ce:tovroYur blood at the die-
lo,
ulrVeeo
u confirmut
ry antdh
oi at
ent, which is the only autho.
douearthp,erasnodnsw, eouprlacpeosfsoesr
possessions,
which
rity we recognise in our.
posal of the National Govern
"uutritYl the presence of God, One in
doclaratien by our signaturesthe presence of
signatures, the authenticity
the Holy Trinity, and in
Europe. (25th) September, 1863.
Here fellow
.'-'
is certified by
the • • civil government of the
of
which
of Wilna.
Dated tho 13th tv,9,315
palatinate
The other addresses express similar sentiments,

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