The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-19 00:00:00

we can investigate an English invention as well as
can be done in the Patent Office of Great Britain.
The volumes are handsomely bound, and now fill a
large room in the library. For them we make but
the poor return of a copy of our Annual Report."
Mr. Foote recommends a photographic establish-
ment, adapted to copy drawings of large size to sup-
ply fac-sinziles cheaply and accurately; and the new
art of photo lithography is found to, be admirably
adapted for obtaining any number of perfect copies.
:4 The receipts of the Patent-office from July last to
the Ist of January have exceeded its expenditures by
about $53,000. It is confidently expected that for
the year to come the excess will not be less than
$lOO,OOO. By strict economy ani system in the
management of the office, it is believed that salaries
may be raised, necessary exchanges and improve-
ments made, and every needful expenditure to raise
the office up to its highest state of efficiency and
usefulness incurred, without any charge or ta".
upon the public." The book of illustrations of
the patents for the year 1866 consists of 1,096
pages, beginning at illustration No. 51,784, and
ending at 60,657. Everything conceivable has a
plAce ; from whipping cream to the masts of a ship,
from a paper bosom and collar, to a new propeller,
from a tobacco pipe to a locomotive. Nothing seas
to be beneath the inventor's notice, nothing too
grand for his genius. The Republic is the wmether
of Invention," and its headquarters is the Patent'
office, Washington. Statistics have proved that
more men have become crazed in that bureau than
anywhere else in the Union, and we can quite un-
derstand such being the fact, for the mind gets dis"
tracted by the multiplicity and intricacy of the mo-
dels, and a constant intercourse with men who areal!
mad on their own particular point ; for it is almost
impossible to be a successful inventor without 00 I
concentrating all thought on one focus that there s
a burning light there, and vacancy and darkness
everywhere else, which goes far to make the inven-
tor the most disagreeable of society, even if he 10
the most useful of mankind.

A meeting of the "German Republican Central
Committee" to modify the Excise Law in the United
States, took place at the Stenben House, New York, on the
evening of the 29th Jan., at which Gen. Sigel presided.
report was presented by a committee previously appointed
recommending the appointment of a committee to take ftd"
mediate action in the matter to insure a modification of the
Sunday clause of the Excise Law. The committee via°
composed of Messrs. Andreas, Willmann, Steinbrender'
Ronson, Naumann, Grasse, Stuzmann, and Cantor'
and Dr Mutir, with power to add to its members. 14°
Committee will proceed to Albany to confer with weir
bers of the Legislature on the subject. Mr. Otterburg, °it
behalf of a Committee appointed to prepare a plan to be
submitted to Congress, in regard to a reform of the Nato,
ralization laws, with a view of preventing a recurrence
of naturalization frauds, submitted a report. The repert,
as modified and adopted, is to the effect that Congress
petitioned t' modify the naturalization laws, so that t4°
term of residence before naturalization shall be four years,
and that after naturalization a person shall wait one Ye°
before. he is entitled to vote at national elections ;
that the power of naturalization be confined to the Unite
States Courts. A committee, composed of Messrs. Otter-
burg, Willman, Gillman, and Dr. Gerke, was appointed t°
take this matter in hand.

•
The North German Correspondent, Feb. 3, says;
—"Among the curiosities of newspaper literature. t,
, Democratic press of Russia is entitled to a very consPieove
ous place. Many of its later articles seem rather to in'
come from some excitable and semi-barbarous tribes thells4
from the subjects of a great European State. Like the fir
literary essays of most races they are marked by boldnetoso
of conception, grasp of imagination, and carelessness sere,
probability and the minor graces of execution. TheY a d
in fact, ballads done in the form of leading articles, ae,
they outdo those of most nations in the wonders they 113 t.
late. Thus the Golos, a paper which was founded ' f
Petersburg in 1864, informs its readers, in its reviet cf
the events of 1868, that not only Garibaldi's invasion et
the Papal States,but the S panish Revolution and the con fll f
between Greece and Turkey, are owing to the influence;
Prussia. It is evident that the latter state has become, i 0 erg
imagination of the writer, one of those occult Pel,bo
with which the poets of early ages love to deal.
execution, however, as is so often the case with Yelphfu
i
writers, falls far short of the conception. Instead a bolesct
attributing this information to the muses, or to some a° to
sorcerer or modernized Merlin, the journalist en deavou74
prove his case in quite a matter-of-fact way, and in thlt
course he fails. It is true it cannot be clearlyproved that
those movements were regulated by orders from Berlin,tyi4
since all hese events were advantageous to Prussia
1,,1 bfs
but fair to suppose that Prussia had a band in thew-
reminds us of the German Radical who exclaimed,
know nothing of the intentions of the Government, Lel-
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Foreign Mail Packet List.

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Births. oept,
OHARLESWORTII—On the 17th inst., at Bromle3lbte„P
the wife of Frederic Charlesworth, Esq., of a da"P V.P
ONSLOW —On the 9th inst., at 22, Wilton-Place:
Onslow, of a daughter.

Marriages. 5 fare,,
BERRIDGE—CAUTHERLEY—On the 17th inst., a-
,
lebone Church, John Berridge, of Careby, 1-Aine",,beri'd
to Mary Harriet, eldest daughter of Charles Cat*
of Baldock.
p
MANLEY—DARTON—On the 9th inst., at Sheern-gO,
of
N. Manley, Esq., V.C., Royal Artillery, to lOrresil'i
both, eldest daughter of the late T. H. Dartory

Temple Dinslei; Hertfordshire.

Deaths. 11 rreP
BROADHURST -On the 17th inst. at Richtnongd'giaciOr
William Hamilton Broadhurst, Esq., late 0'
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lane. ,stool

SMITH—On the 11th inst., at The Warren, BO
rd
Smith, Esq., aged 80. or
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,00
WARDLAW— On the 17th inst., at I earning° 'O3(IP
.1 , see
Wardlaw, Esq., formerly Captain 73d negi",i, isiv.
of the late General and the Hon. Mrs. Ward -.4%

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