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London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1865.

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The weather as yet seems inclined to favour the
entente cordiale between the two great 'Western Na-
tions, and has added to the skilful arrangements
and splendid hospitality of Portsmouth and the
Admiralty those attractions which a bright sky and
warm sunshine alone give. All has passed off
hitherto in the most satisfactory manner, and our
FTench guests must admit that it does not always
rain even in England. The pleasant weather in
the beginning of the week will, we may hope, be
continued to the end, so that there may be neither
literal nor figurative cloud to mar the kindly ex-
change of courtesies. Portsmouth is busier than
ever, full of visitors from France, as well as pleasure-
seekers from all parts of England. There is a
tangible excuse or pretext for any one taking a holi-
day to wend his way southwards for such a sight,
as the meeting of the fleets is not to be seen every
day. In the race of naval competition England
and France have lavished immense sums, and have
availed themselves of all the inventions of art and
the discoveries of science to strengthen and improve
their fleets. Having each accomplished so much,
they meet and exhibit what each has done, com-
paring results and measuring achievements.
In respect to the dockyard arrange-
ments, one side of the comparison is
only in futuro, since we have nothing to put
against the naval splendour of Brest and Cherbourg
but plans and outlines. In.- these, however, our
-visitors seem to have taken much interest, and when
completed Portsmouth Dockyard will be worthy of
our fleet.

The Admiralty vim apparently determined to
do their best to amuse their guests ; and yesterday,
after conducting them
over Atlr. LAIRD'S famous
Scorpion, they took them to the dockyard, where
they could see the wonders achievede ek do- by NASILYTII'S
hammer, and other mechanical contrivances.
ouicres, and
iThience
they went to the iron and brass fu
wards to Southampton-water, when they after_
visited
Netley Hospital. Afterwards came the grand dm_
ner at the Naval College, with all its attendant ex_
eitements. The visit must be highly interesting to
loth parties, and will do much to promote a kindly
feeling between the two nations.

The great and thriving city of Manchester has
just now three very unwonted visitors. It pos-
sesses, no doubt, many attractions and curiosities,
but its present guests are curiosities of themselves,
and their visit is highly significant. They come
from an old and effete semi-civilisation to one of
the busiest centres of our modern manufacturing
life, and the force and constancy with which the
tide of knowledge and enlightenment is spreading
eastward has seldom received a more powerful illus-
tration than in the visit of these high caste Indians
to the English manufacturing city. The cotton-
growers are inspecting the wonderful factories in
which their raw material is converted into the
almost indispensable material. The natives of
Madras have been examining the spinning, weaving,
bleaching, and calico-printingworks of Manchester;
they have been taring at the last representation of

" Arrah na Pogiie ;" therhave been visiting
'Change ; have watched the processes of the print-
ing-office, and the daily routine of life at the bank.
There has been plenty of traffic between Man-
chester and India during the last two or three years,
but the trip of RAMA REDDI and his companions is
certainly something new under the sun in these
days. For Indians of their caste to condescend
to visit foreign shores is no ordinary occur-
rence, and the fact of their undertaking a
voyage to this country, partly from commercial
motives, and partly to acquaint themselves with the
details of the civilisation of which they have heard
so much, is an interesting and significant fact. We
can fancy the wonder and curiosity with which these
intelligent natives would look over establishments
so different from anything that they had ever seen
before, and their opinion of the strength, and skill,
and wisdom of the conquering race must have been
greatly enhanced by the very sight of the crowded
thoroughfares of the busy commercial city. Such
active life must impress men of intelligent minds
and quick appreciation, fresh from the calm of the
inert Hindoos, and the enterprising travellers will
carry back tales to their countrymen that will sound
to them as strange and as incredible as the adven-
tures of Baron MUNCHAUSEN or GULLIVER'S Tra-
vels. They will look with fresh interest on their
cotton when they recall the wonderful processes
through which they have seen it pass, the carding
and the spinning, the weaving and the bleaching,
and finally the printing of gay forms and colours.
In these departments of manufacture they will
be especially interested, not only because
they are Manchester's principal business, but
because they themselves are cotton-growers; a4d the
cause of their visit was partly their doubt of the
accuracy of the accounts received in Madras respect-
ing Liverpool prices. They come as a deputation
from the native growers and merchants, who want
to know for themselves what the merchants on this
side are really paying for their cotton ; and the
leader of the party, RAMA REDDI, is a man well
calculated for such an expedition. He is one of
those natives whose natural intelligence and deter-
mination of character enable him to appreciate the
superiority of Western civilisation. His companions
and associates endeavoured to dissuade him from
the voyage, and assembled on the beach to beg him
not to go. However he persevered, and, although
his companions quarrelled with him on board for
breaking caste by eating food cooked on board, he
contrived to bring them to reason by throwing over-
board their own cooking apparatus. Caste was not
to be preserved at the cost of starvation, so RAMA
REDDI had the best of it. Visits like this will go
far to civilise the people of India, since it will enable
them to understand not only England but English-
men better than they have hitherto done. They will
be animated to fresh exertion, and take fresh in-
terest in the canals and railways, and other great
works which Western science has originated in their
own country, when they learn from eye-witnesses of
their own race what marvellous results can be
achieved by human industry and skill. The natives
of India are sufficiently intelligent to appreciate
our civilisation, when they are once free from those
trammels of prejudice and superstition which RAMA
REDDI and his fellows seem likely to break.

All the suggestions concerning the cure and the
prevention of the cattle plague are worthy of atten-
tion ; and as it is an undisputed fact that great
discoveries have often taken place from simple
occurrences, it seems unwise to turn aside from any
plans or proposals that are made. Her MAJESTY'S
Consul-General at Warsaw has forwarded to the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a letter, which
makes mention of a remedy for the cattle disease,
which was successfully tried in Poland some years
ago. Mr. MANSFIELD states he was conversing
upon this topic with some large landed proprietors,
and that they stated that when, in 1857, the disease
was very prevalent in Poland, the best remedy was
found to be "water strongly impregnated with

iron." It is curious to hear that this treatment was
first discovered from the circumstance that upon a
farm where there was a chalybeate spring the cattle
were but slightly affected by the disease, or recovered
when they had drunk large quantities of the water,
yet on the neighbouring farms they died in large
numbers. It was subsequently found that on
putting " old iron into the cattle-troughs" the
cattle recovered, by this production of a
highly chalybeate water. This suggestion is surely
worthy of notice from all who are concerned in the

treatinent of cattle, and no doubt its adoption will
prove of great utility. Many people may be too
prejudiced to avail themselves of it, but they had
better reflect how many benefits have accrued to

the human race in consequence of the carrying out
of ideas which were suggested by trifling circum-
stances. Thus vaccination was discovered through
the fact of no one who came into contact with cows
catching the small-pox, or only having it lightly.

If all apparently trifling circumstances are over-
looked and disregarded it is very certain that much
valuable knowledge will be lost. There can be no
reason why this remedy of iron should not be tried
at all events, and thus a fair chance given to the
scheme. It is the bounden duty of all those who
have anything to do with the management of cattle
to be on the alert, and while they discard
dangerous proposals, and turn aside from the ad-
vice of those who suggest a system of " quackery"
to lose no opportunity and throw away no chance
of remedial measures that may be brought before
them from time to time. So only can we expect or
hope with any reason that a speedy period will be
put to the sufferings of these poor creatures, and
that the community at large will be freed from the
dangers and annoyance they now sustain. This
remedy appears feasible at all events, and it sounds
to sense that it presents a good chance of success,
for the iron must purify the blood and strengthen
the system of the animals altogether, thus checking
that tendency to decay and that fatal debility
which are unfailing symptoms of the prevailing
distressing epidemic. It is satisfactory to notice
that a telegram has been received at the Foreign-
office, which states that the Minister of the Interior
has given instructions that not a single head of
cattle " shall leave a Russian port without exami-
nation, and a certificate of health." It would be
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burgfollowed has set them.
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to make the thing complete, it now remains for
those who traffic in foreign cattle make more
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liberal preparations for their co
transit. It is most reprehensible that such a state
of things as the neglect that prevailed at these
times should have continued so long, but for it to
be persisted in now is a positive crime, for it is
sowing disease and misery broadcast through the
length and breadth of the land.
In Edinburgh the spread of the
cattle plague
has caused the greatest consternation, and as
people have been very naturally anxious to consult
as to the best steps to be taken in the emergency, a
meeting was held on Monday last, consisting of
justices of the peace ; the Duke of BUCCLEUCH
presided. From the report that was read, it ap-
peared that the disease in question had not spread
in the suburbs, but bad been conftnel to the near

neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Sanitary precautions
have been adopted, it is most important to state,
however, and surely this example will not be lost
upon those in this country who are menaced with
the infliction of this deplorable calamity. Some
discussion took place upon the desirability of
killing the cattle who were affected, and the Duke
of BUCCLEUCH very truly said that it was unreason-
able to destroy all the cattle who caught the
disease. Professor DICK declared that it was pos-
sible to effect a remedy, and in those instances
where remedies were employed at an early stage of
the affair the beasts recovered fast from the evil
effects of the malady. From this statement, again,
we may glean an interesting and important piece
of intelligence. Too much haste cannot be made
to insure prompt and efficient treatment to all those
animals who suffer from the disease, and the attempt
to hush up the matter, and not to let the fact of
the disease having broken out in any particular
spot become known, must be highly injudicious and
injurious. It was stated at this meeting that the
disease was infectious, but that it spread in an
epidemic form, taking hold of particular districts,
like the Cholera.

The temporary settlement of the Schleswig-Hol-
' stein affair has caused a great deal of annoyance in
various quarters, and the various comments that
are passed upon it would be amusing to read if the
whole subject were not so unsatisfactory in every
respect. The Austrian journals do not think that
their diplomatists have made a good bargain, and
are quite ready to pick holes in the management of
their puissant ally. One of these organs very care-
fully criticises the present posture of affairs, and
truly states that injuries will accrue from the divi-
sion that has taken place in the Duchies. Of what
avail, it asks, is it to declare that the State,union is
to be maintained when a separation has actually
taken place, and when different masters rule ?
This is a very fair argument, and it seems only
strange that such a reflection should not have pre-
viously occurred to the arbitrators ; but when sel-
fishness and greediness are the predominant quali-
ties, it is idle to expect that any very satisfactory
conclusion can be arrived at. The connection is
truly described as patchwork, which will last one
day and be destroyed the next. We find, however,
that the secondary States are still more vehement
in their indignation, and outspoken in their
language. This is not to be wondered at, for
they have indeed been most shamefully duped,
and all the grand professions that have been
so plentifully made have been totally disre-
garded when the time for settlement arrived.
Under the present circumstances it is little that
these victims can do except to complain and to
protest against the usurpation of national rights
and the destruction of well-grounded hopes. One
of the journals that comments upon these matters
intimates that the union again patched up between
Austria and Prussia may not be so lasting as some
expect, and then goes on to point out the signifi-
cance of the secondary States being excluded from
the " solution of the question." These States cer-
tainly gave themselves a vast amount of unneces-
sary trouble at the outset of the Schleswig-Holstein
dispute, but wrong as they might have been in
principle they deserved better treatment at the
hands of the great Powers, since they strenuously
laboured for the advancement of the same end
which these professed to have at heart—the con-
solidation of the Germanic Empire, and exclusion
of strange interests from national affairs. It is
not surprising that, taking all things into considera-
tion, Austria should be the chief point of attack,
for it was the firmness of that Power that was
chiefly relied on for securing the integrity of the
Duchies, and protecting the claims of the smaller
States. This idea has proved illusory, and disap-
pointment has prompted the utterance of some
home-truths more poignant than pleasant and more
appropriate than complimentary. The prospect of
making Schleswig-Holstein a vassal State is indig-
nantly alluded to, and spoken of in terms of
the greatest reprobation. It is, however,
to be questioned, if, notwithstanding the
truth contained is these animadversions, such
will not virtually be the condition of the unfortu-
nate Duchies, or at all events will remain so until
some startling change occurs. Germany, at any
rate, cannot be considered as a " house that is at
unity with itself," and may therefore expect sooner
or later to share the fate that attends on disorganised
and discontented establishments. The other na-
tions of Europe can pass no comment upon the
events that occur of a more disparaging nature than
those that are so lavishly uttered and so freely
passed by the different States of Germany itself.
First one and then the other is eager to explain its
own wrongs and proclaim its own rights, although
it must be confessed that the true meaning of these
terms is little understood and still less acted upon.

The Cattle Disease and the Turkish Bath

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Bondville, Tynau, County Armagh, Aug. 29, 1865.
SIR,—In your impression of 24th August there is a
quotation from the Newcastle Daily Journal, in reference to

the Turkish Bath and the Cattle Disease.

Will you allow me to refer you to the result of my
experience, as communicated to Sir John Fife, under the

title " Four Years' Experience of the Turkish Bath on
an Irish Farm ?" of which I send you a copy in
pamphlet form, extracted from " The Manual of the
Turkish Bath."

Since writing that I have adopted, from Mr. Urquhart,

ho use of radiating heat with remarkable success—decreas-

ing the original outlay, time in construction, and current
expenses—shortening the time in taking, and gaining more
marked and rapid results ; besides, providing a much more
enjoyable and enlivening medium to remain in than is to
be procured from other heat.

Both on my own and other farms, where radiating heat

has been introduced according to my instructions, tho most
marked success in treating the diseases of inferior animals
has followed.

The symptoms that are recorded of the fearful visitation
now raging in England are such as we frequently subject
to the action of heat, and with uninterrupted success. It
must be high heat-180 deg. to 210 deg. Moderate tempera-
tures won't do. The rapid action of heat on disease ren-
ders it peculiarly adapted to meet the exigencies of tho pre.
sent occasion.

Nor need the uninitiated hesitate to try. Skill and
knowledge are, of course, necessary to obtain the most
favourable results; but, till acquired, intelligent observa
tion will enable one not only to conduct experiments with-
out harm, but with great benefit to the animals operated
on.

After some trouble I have succeeded in getting a heat-
ing apparatus, which will, I hope, fulfil all the conditions
required by the introducer of this cheap luxury and
powerful remedial agent.
I shall feel happy to communicate the information that I
have accumulated by years of experience, from the time
that the first horse ever known to take the bath was
put in by me, at Saint Anne's Hill, County Cork. His
history alone should induce stock owners to learn some-
thing about the bath.—Yours truly,

J. E. SCRIVEN,

[Our correspondent's pamphlet has been more
than once referred to and quoted from in the columns
of The Sun—to the readers of which, therefore, the
above communication will for that very reason
prove doubly interesting, if only as the record of
Mr. Seriven's fresh experiences.—ED. SUN.]

THE Loss OF THE GLASGOW.—Messrs. Inman and
Co. have presented a valuable watch and chain to Captain
Grace, of the National Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Erin, as a mark of their appreciation of his ser-
vices in receiving on board the passengers and crew of the
Inman steamer Glasgow, burnt at sea. The watch bears
the following inscription :—" Presented by the Liverpool,
New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company to Capt.
R. W. Grace, of the screw steamer Erin, for his humanity
in receiving on board that ship the crew and passengers of
the steamer Glasgovr, burnt at oa 31et July, 1.80."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REU'I'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

MUNICH, Aua. 31.

The official Bairische Zeitung of to-day declares
the rumour that negociations had taken place at
Vienna between Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtemberg,
in accordance with which the Minor States would
cease to oppose the policy of the great German
Powers in the Schleswig-Holstein question to be
incorrect. Bavaria, on the contrary, has since the
Convention become still more determined to take
further steps in the Federal Diet, and maintains
that the Duke of Augustenburg is alone entitled to
the sovereignty of the Duchies.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

VIENNA, AUG. 31.

The Chancellor of Hungary, Count von Maylath,
has issued a circular, in which he designates as his
first duty to harmonise the constitutional and his-
torical rights of Hungary with the position of
Austria as one of the great Powers, and also to
strengthen the union, founded by the Pragmatic
Sanction, between Hungary and the other provinces
of Empire by respecting mutual rights and interests,
and taking into consideration the present state of
things.

The rumours here of Prussian declarations ren-
dering doubtful the execution of the Gastein con-
vention are unfounded.

MEXICO.

MEXICO, JULY 28.

According to the last advices the road from
Matamoras to Monterey was occupied by guerillas,
and communication between the two towns entirely

cut off.

The jaurist bands lately defeated at El Portezulo
and Santa Maria del Rio have separated, some re-
treating to the Valle de Purisuma, and the rest to
the Haciendu of Palo-Blanco. Advices from
Mineral del Catorce to the 17th July state that a
French detachment had destroyed the guerilla band
of Ildefonso Martinez. This chief was one of those
who took part in the Nuevo Leon expedition under
Negrete, and who surrendered at Monterey at the
time of the occupation of that city by General de

Castagny.
News from Michoacan states that Ronda, who,
at the beginning of the month, was at Purnamdiro,
left that place on the 11th for Coeneo with 300 men
Private letters from Monterey, to the 12th, state
that upwards of 4,000 inhabitants of the former
Confederate States had arrived in that city. Among
them were several superior officers of the Southern
army, some of whom, it was said, intended to take
service in the Mexican army. It was stated that
there was at least an equal number of Southern
emigrants on the banks of the Rio Bravo.

SPAIN.

MADRID, AUG. 28.

On the recent visit of Queen Isabella, to Bermeo,
the ancient capital of Biscay, her Majesty expressed
a desire to possess a branch from the " Holy Tree
of the Liberti6s of Biscay," and to present another
to the King. Two branches were accordingly cut
and offered to the Royal visitor, on which occasion
the following conversation is reported to have taken
place between the Queen and the Deputy, General
Senor Urquiza, to whom her Majesty delivered one
of the branches. The Queen said, " Take this
branch, and preserve it for my sake. I assure you
that as these two branches," pointing to that des-
tined for the King,." belonged to one and the same
tree, so shall our ideas be one and the same respecting
the tree." Senor Urquiza replied, " Madame, this
branch, placed in a frame bearing the precious words
uttered by your Majesty will be the ornament of the
Chamber in which we assemble."

A petition was lately presented to the Queen to
re-establish the Franciscan community formerly
existing at Zarauz. This request, as might be ex-
pected, met with a refusal. Early in September
her Majesty will lay the first stone of a monument
co be erected at Motrico to the sailor Churricca,
one of the Spanish officers engaged at Trafalgar.

Espartero is represented in Ministerial circles to
have latterly been himself less favourable to the
continued non-participation of the Progressists in
political affairs. The Central Progressist Com-
mittee meet in October. Should the non-partici-
pation policy be then adhered to, it will not be, it
is believed, without energetic and authoritative
protests. The new electoral law is said to have
great weight with many unprejudiced and disin-
terested men of the party, who, believing.it to be
based upon truly liberal principles, consider there
is a powerful motive for abandoning a policy which,
if persisted in, would be reduced to a barren menace.

Very satisfactory intelligence on the subject of the
cholera is received from Valencia. The epidemic
is announced to be rapidly on the decline. The
town is regaining the usual animation, and affairs
are returning to their normal condition.
Referring to the efforts of the Minister of Public
Works for the encouragement of a modern system
of agriculture in Spain, a Madrid journal points
out that little advance can be made under the
present deplorable ignorance of the agricultural
class. The rural population read nothing of all
that is published in Europe on this important
matter, and, blindly attached to the routine trans-
mitted by tradition from father to son, persist in a
system of cultivation very similar to that of Adam
and Noah, leaving to Providence the care of con-
verting Spain into a new paradise or land of pro-
mise.

Some little doubt begins to be expressed relative
to the ability of Senor Martinez for the difficult
task of conducting the financial affairs of the coun-
try in their present critical and complicated phase.
It is even rumoured that, after the dissolution of
the Cortes, Senor Salaverria would replace the pre-
sent Minister of Finance.

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 31.
The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol-

towing :

" The convention signed by the Great German
Powers has just been published. It is not our
intention to discuss its different clauses, but it is
impossible for us not to point out the unfavourable
reception it has met with even in Germany. The
principle of the union of the Duchies is one which
has hitherto been most constantly proclaimed by
the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, but the Gastein
stipulations proceed from a contrary order of ideas.
They, moreover, imply no participation of the
Duchies in the settlement of their own destinies, and
take no account of the nationality of the inhabitants
of Northern Schleswig. The two Courts, it is
true, represent this arrangement to he provisional.
They have only geograpically separated the use of
their rights of sovereignty until afresh understand-
ing has been arrived at. It is therefore necessary
to wait before passing a definite judgment upon
their policy on the question of the Duchies.
" Some French sf. ilors employed in the coral fishery
on the African coast having been attacked by
Tunisian Zouavcs, our acting Consul-General
immediately
lodged a complaint with the Govern.