The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-19 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AuG. 17.
Earl Russell has received the following despatch from
hor Majesty's Minister in Persia :
Gulahek, July 1, 1865.
My Lord,—Captain Smith, director of the Persian tele-
graph, has addressed to me the enclosed report on the large
number of telegraphic messages which are sent from Eng-
land to India, via the Hague and Russia. They are re-
ceived here in a hopeless state of mutilation, averaging
three weeks or a month old.

The effect of this will beto discredit the Indo-European
line by Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, or Bussorah,
and the Persian Gulf, and the publication of Capt.. Smith's
report, or of a notice to the same purport, might have the
result of putting a stop to the evil.-1 have, &c.,
C. ALISON.
•
The Right Ron. the Earl Russell,
Galahee, near Teheran, July 1, 1865.
Sir,—l have the honour to inform your E.:cellency, that
during the last 'fortnight a large number of. telegraphic
messages from England have reached the Teheran office
y
trizici ~yßussia, for
accumulatet nd
asitnitshseionu unla,. ersialinn tilyt
frontier,ste tad
na
were sent thence, from time to time, to Teheran by post.
They were always very old (averaging three weeks or a
month) by the time they reached us. Without exception,
they were full of errors and the large majority were quite
Yesterday the Persian authorities placed Morse instru-
ments on the line to Eussia, both here and at Tabreez, so
that messages are now sent by post from the frontier to
Tabreez and thence to Teheran, by a telegraph worked
by the Persians themselves. Tho result is what was to
be expected. The messages arrive a little more quickly
perhaps than before, but in even in a worse state, as tho
Persians. add their own share to the previous errors of the
Russians.
1 have already telegraphed on the subject both to Bom-
bay and England, but as messages still continue to pour in
from Russia in•the most hopeless state of mutilation, I
have thought it necessary to draw your Excellency's at-
tention to the subject. If matters are allowed to go on as
at present, all confidence in the telegraphic communication
between England and India will not, unnaturally, 'be lost.
The English public should, I think, be distinctly in-
formed that, for the present at least, the only line upon
which any reliance can. be placed is the Indo-European
one, by Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, or Bussorah, and
the Persian. Gulf.:7l have, &c.,

(Signed) R. Di. Smrrir, Captain, ILE ,
Acting Director, Persian Telegraph.
His Excellency Charles Alison' Esq., C.B. &c.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Aug. 17.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of privy.
Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of'
State for FOreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her
Majesty Consul at Lisbon, containing the following quar-
antine notices:—
The Board of Health of the Kingdom makes known that
the Island of Malta is considered infected with the cholera
morbus.

Lisbon, 3d August, 1865.
For the Fiscal,
JOAO JOSE DE SOUSA E SILVA.

The Board of Health ofihe Kingdom makes known
that the ports of Smyrna and Constantinople are eonsi-
derql infected with the cholera morbus, and all ports of
Turkey suspected of infection with the same disorder.
Lisbon, 3d August, 18G5. •
For the Fiscal,
JOA JOSE DE SOUSA E. SILVA.

The Board of Health of the Kingdom makes known
that all arrivals from Demerara are considered infected
with the yellow fever,
Lisbon, 4th of August, 1865.

For the Fiscal,
JOAO JOSE DE SOUSA E. SILVA.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Eveni g.

Amsterdam Short. 11 181
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1

11 19
12
12 1f
25 57
25 57f
13 10-1
25 25
25 47;
25 47*
1214
11 25
11 25
30f
471
25 62j
25 60
25 GO
.25 62
25 62
25 62
511
511

Rotterdam

Antwerp — 25 52}
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris
Ditto 3 Months. 25 42i
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 120,* ,1
Vienna.. — 11 1/ i
Trieste — 11 20
Petersburgh - - 301
Berlin

Madrid —
Cadiz
Leghorn ,

471
47*
25 67/
_ _

Milan
Messina
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Oporto
Lisbon

25 55
25 55
25 57+
25 57+
25 57+
514
511_

To Farmers and Cowke9pers,

Gentlemen,—l invite you-to peruse the ie.
Tort of the
discussion on Cattle Condiments at the meetint; of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England, held in Hai:wer-
square Rooms, believing that the facts then brought
~.n -
light by gentlemen of reputation and position as fanners;'
and entirely unconnected with mo or my works, will con-
vines you that the value I attach to my discovery is by no
means exaggerated.
The discussion to which I now invite your attention
Iwas originated by Mr. Beale Browne, a gentleman well
known among you for his devotionto agricultural progress,
and who had been accidentally induced to try my condi-
ment, some of the ingredients of which he had used for pre-
vious years. Having from domestic affliction to give up
farming for a time, he sold off the bulk of his flock of sheep
retaining only a few favomities, Daringhie absence these
animals got reduced to a .very low ebb—indeed, half-a-
dozen of them died, some were broken mouthed, and some
lost their teeth. Though in a fine piece of clover, they
were a mere bag of bones, and oilcake and corn had no
good effect on them. He tried my condiment, as he tells
you and the result was that in three or four weeks he
hardly knew them again. After ono hundredweight of
condiment, said Mr. Browne, they went to grass, did re-
markably well, and the condiment seemed to have entirely
renovated the whole constitution of the animals.
Mr. Henry Cotton, who also took part in this discussion,
theeilolwuss,traatneddpig. s vauluise
mareof
had beenmycondiment to horses, dogs,
quite set up by it, and
restored to hunting condition. For his dog, he found
nothing better after a day's work in the stubble or turnips.
Ninth his cows it improved the flesh and the milk ; and,
with his pigs, ho found a marked improvement in those
that were treated with it over those not thus fed.
Major Munn's testimony is even more decisive. His
lambs on his farm in the Isle of Sheppy were terribly
afflicted with thread-like worms in the air vessels. Their
recovery was despaired of. His bailiff proposed trying
my condiment. The major, in despair, consented, and now
bears his testimony to the results. In his bailiff's own
words, "he saved the whole flock." This was in 1859.
Again, in October, 1860, he had 118 lambs thrown on his
hands by the incoming tenant of his farm, and not worth,
in their then condition, morethan from six to ten shillings
a head. He tried my condiment again, and the result was
that he lost only five of the 118, and he sold the remainder
for from forty-five to forty-six shillings a head. Ho tells
us that ho was equally successful with his horses, and is
satisfied that, apart from every other cause, the recovery
of his sheep and lambs was due to the use of the condi-
ment.
I may be permitted to add that, after this discussion, the
nod dApwreilan sheed oeo n
ntthinen2edd otof
Major tried the effect of the condiment on an Alderney
cow,-under very special circumstances. Her third calf was
calved on
March,
give cream enough to make 711bs. of butter per week on the
andthferotd
usual diet of grass, rnangold, and turnips. On the 7th of
then nFteobtruhee377 th t
April the condiment was commenced, and the first week
after gave an increase of 6oz. of butter; the second gave
an increase of rather more than a pound of butter ; and
the third week 91bs. of butter, Such facts speak for them-
selves, and need no explanation.
o n a on no i
nt horses
on
whichan d dogs.it
is
The Mayor's testimony is equally decisive as to the effect
diffiileculit for is
somveertycs
speak with any patience—the reckless imitations of the
opflatinhe spokencondiment
condiment foisted on the farmer by the retail dealers and
hawkers, and with the failures and often terrible effects of
which .my invention is necessarily saddled. Until the
Legislature provides a cheap and speedy method by which
fraudulent imitations and equally fraudulent dealers in
shams can be prosecuted and prevented from imposing on
.the public, I feel I have no remedy but in making it up in
4oz. packets, in blue paper with buff labels, and my signa-
ture engraved thereon, at one penny each ; or 448 packets,
in an iron-bound case, carriage paid to any railway station
in the United Kingdom, on receipt of post-office order for
345. I feel the difficulty of insuring its purity in other
ways; and whilst I sincerely regret the numerous decep-
tions practised on you under cover of my name, I must de-
cline the responsibility of their evil results. I have no
quarrel with other makers of condiment. I only complain
of those who foist on you an impure and often destructive
composition as my condiment, and necessarily affect my
reputation by its deleterious results, at the same time that
they reduce my profits by the sale of their imposture.
You will notice that in the discussion the practical value
of my condiment as a restorer of animals out of condition,
and as a fattening food, is mainly proved. I have, how-
ever, good reason to recommend it to you as a preventive
of infection and an antidote to disease—keeping the sto-
mach and digestive organs in a natural healthy tone, and
thus fortifying the animal against the insidious inroads of
disease. From this quality it is especially valuable to stock
farmers of the present day, when the system of forcing
nature, especially in the case of grasses and green crops,
by the use of chemical manures, has tended to increase the
quantity of food at the cost of its quality, and to render it
not only far less nutritive, but in many cases deleterious
to the animal.
With these few remarks, I again invite your careful
perusal of the discussion, and have to request all those
the
who
w
may be tempted to make a trial to favour me i
re-
sults, be they good or bad, at their earliest vonvenience.—
I remain, gentlemen, your obedient se_
fovseent, ri i i ROBLEY.
.
Spice Mills and Office—Thornhill Bridge, -
Caledonian-Londeing's-c August, 1865.
, 12th lBtis

The Earl of Punmore has left Dunmore Park for
his seat in the Isle of IlArris, for the shooting season.
THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OF EMERY has hitherto been
clf.-irn almost exclusively from two localities : Cape Emeri,
in the jetwil ,f Naxos, and the neighbourhood of the an-
cient city of gitip-mN, Two new sources of this commo-
dity have recently bee-ti fliacovered, however, Professor
Craco Calvert, of Manchester, having founda valuable de-
posit of it in North Wales a few years sgo, and a still more
valuable bed having been lighted upon, about twelve
months since, near Chester, in the State of Massachusetts,
U.S. The latter is of very great extent, and is so situated
that the emery may be mined at a cost not exceeding 82
per ton. The emery is said to be superior in quality to
the very best hitherto known, and to be capable of doing
one-third more work than the finest samples from Smyrna
or Naxos.—Mechanics' Magazine.
STEAM VESSELS.—The annual return of steam
vessels registered in this United Kingdom shows that at the
beginning of the present year the number was 2,401, the
registered tonnage 676,247, the gross tonnage 992,550.
Fivo years before the number of vessels was but 1,863 and
• the tonnage 429,474, exclusive of engine room, and 666,51
gross tonnage.