The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

Certain Cure for HydrophoYa.

To TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
London and Provincial Turkish Bath Co. (Limited),

76, Jermyn-street, S.W.
London, May 30, 1866.
SIR,—As the tinie of the year is now approaching
when cases of hydrophobia are most prevalent, it is
desirable it should be known that there is within
reach the means of relief and cure, there being a
radiating chamber provided gratis for this purpose
at the above establishment.
It is a well-known fact that heat raised to a cer-
tain point eliminates all poisons that are not sudden
in their effects ; also that hospitals admit such cases,
but avowedly no medical treatment avails.

Trusting you will insert this in your next issue,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
lIAMAN SMITH, Superintendent.

DIE GOVERNMENT LOAN TO RAILWAYS.—The
assistance to Irish railways, which we announced exclu-
sively on Saturday, is to be, as we stated, a loan at 4 per
cent,, not 31 per cent., as has been stated by a contem-
porary. It is a temporary measure to relieve companies
whose bonds fall due in the present year from the pres-
sure incident to the financial crisis.—Dzalin Evening

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Wednesday Evening.

The Moniteur says :—" The Plenipotentiaries of
France and Spain, for arranging the Emits of the
frontiers of the Pyrenees, signed on the 26th of
May, at Bayonne, the third treaty, and an addi-
tional act of the Treaty of 1862, by which the
secular difficulties which existed on the subject of
the limits bet Ween France and Spain are definitively
regulated."
It is stated semi-officially that accounts have been
received from Vienna, Berlin, and Florence, an-
nouncing that the quasi-belligerent Powers have
adopted spontaneously and without previous ar-
rangement the military state quo. Consequently,
strategical movements are suspende-1 in the three
countries. lam informed that the answers to the
" identical Note" proposing a Conference have been
received by the French Government.
The Jockey Club, at all events, did not exhibit
any jealousy because the great prize was won by au
English horse. An immediate invitation was given
after the races to the Duke of Beaufort to attend
a splendid banquet at the club on Sunday evening.
Sixty persons of high distinction were present.
Count Paul Daru presided. At dessert the presi-
dent proposed as a toast the union of England and
France, in homage of which union the file was
given. The toast was responded to very enthusi-
astically. The Duke of Beaufort acknowledged
the compliment with much good taste, energy, and
eloquence. Ile said he most cordially joined in the
union, and trusted that the only struggle between
the two countries would be in emulation and to
advance in the cause of progress.
One of the Paris papers has stated that Lord
Cowley had been sent for to London, and that he
had left Paris. This is not the case. His lordship
had a dinner party on the day he was supposed to
have gone to London, and among his guests was
Lord Brougham, who was on his way to his scat at
Cannes.

During the discussion in the Legislative Body
respecting telegraphic communication some very
interesting statements were made upon the subject.
M. Jules Brame expressed his regret that France
was much behind hand in regard to this important
mode of communication. In the first place, the
telegraph was a State monopoly, and every mono-
poly, sooner or later, became a public calamity.
The instruments employed in France were all of
foreign invention. Those of Morse and Hughes
were American. That of Casselli was Italian, and
the improvements upon the apparatus of Morse was
made by a Piedmontese. Another, used principally
for transatlantic communication, was Prussian.
There was not one French instrument ! This did
not arise from the want of national genius, but it
was want of initiation in France when application
was wanted. In 1820 the illustrious Ampere sug-
gested a mode of telegraphic correspondence, but
he was alarmed at the sacrifices necessary for the
realisation of his invention, and thirty years after-
wards, in 1851, we made use of the invention, copied
for England. It was the same thing with rail-
ways. In 1830 the celebrated M. Perdonuet spoke
of travelling by railway, but he was treated as a
fool. Ten years afterwards railways were estab-
lished in various States which had preceded France
in their use. The inventor who works his discovery
proceeds rapidly enough, but when the invention is
an affair of State the progress is made with aca-
demic slowness. (A laugh.) If the illustrious
Daguerre had wanted a State "subvention to carry
his discovery into effect photography would have
been delayed for several centuries. In fact, when
Daguerre presented himself before the Academy of
Selene? lie was treated as a quack ; he was searched
and made to turn up his sleeves. He only con-
vinced the academicians after he had taken
all their portraits. (Much laughter.) The orator
proceeded to say that an important discovery for
the country had arisen out of the battles of Ma-
genta and Solferino. Before that time it was sup-
posed that the superiority of English coals over
those of France was established beyond doubt.
The war in Italy broke out. Austria declared that
coal was a contraband of war. France and Pied-
mont made a contrary declaration, and the ques-
tion was submitted to the arbitration of England.
England, with that good faith and those good sen-
timents which we all ascribe to her, said that Aus-
tria was right. (A laugh.) The Emperor, how-
ever, ordered further investigation into the subject,
and the result was that the French engineers are
now of opinion that French coals are superior to
those of England. The speaker, in conclusion,
enumerated the names of several great inventors
who found in foreign countries the encouragement
and success which they could not obtain in France.
Among them were Philippe de Gerard, the inventor
of the flax loom ; Captain Delille, the inventor of
the screw principle for steamers; and Brunel, who
completed the Thames Tunnel, but who, in France,
could not find employment as engineer in an
humble position in the department of bridges and
highways.

The Baron de Veaue, on the part of the Govern-
ment, said that the delays complained of by the
orator arose from the circumstance that it was diffi-
cult, in France, to form associations with capital.
That explained, for instance, the reason of the more
rapid establishment of railways in foreign countries
than in France. It was true that the instruments
of foreign inventors were used for telegraphic com-
munication, but important improvements had been
made in them by French inventors:
The Journal de Roanne mentions the existence in
that town of a race of fanatics, a sort of ramifica-
tion of the sect of Bequbines, who believed that the
world would come to an end on Whitsuntide. In
preparation for the event they let their beards
grow, became teetotallers, and bathed frequently in
the river Loire. Saturday night beforeWhit-Sunday
was passed in prayer. When they found that the
world was not destroyed some repaired to have their
beards shaved, others to the wine-shops to indulge
in the bottle, from which they had so long abstained,
The rest believe that the end of the world is only
postponed till next Whit-Sunday,

A letter from Nice contradicts the report of the
death of Garibaldi's brother at that town, but says
he is in a dangerous, if not hopeless, state.
The Siecle says :—" Should the Cabinet of Vienna
consent to the Conference, it will have given a sig-
nificant proof of its conciliatory disposition. Its
usual organs, however, persisting in an attitude of
menace and defiance, it must be believed that the
Austrian newspapers are more Imperialists than the
Emperor,: and that the Government of Francis
Joseph is disposed to entertain the question of
Venetia. The diplomatic expression, ' Italian
differences,' was, it is said, invented by M. Drouyn
de l'lluy-s, and cannot lead Austria into error."

The apparatus used _ for telegraphs in France
before the application of electricity was invented by
the brothers Chappe, assisted by the eminent watch-
maker, Breguet. By means of this application news
could be received in Paris from Strasburg by 44
telegraphs, in 6 minutes. From Toulon, in 30
minutes, by 100 telegraphs. From Brest, in 8
minutes, by 54 telegraphs. This old telegraph was
first replaced in Frdnce by the electric telegraph
from Paris to Rouen, in 1845. When the price of a
telegram was reduced, and one uniform rate of 2f.
for any part of France was established, the number
of despatches was greatly increased. Before that
change—that is to say in 1861, the number of de-
spatches sent was 734,000. In 1862 the number
increased to 1,291,000. In, 1865 the number of
despatches transmitted was 1,913,000—that is to
say, it was tripled in three years. The apparatus of
Caselli seems to be preferred in France, because it
transmits not the despatch, but the exact copy of the
autograph,

T'ne Nazione publishes the following from Gari-
baldi to the students of Florence, who expressed a wish
to enrol themselves as volunteers under his banners :
" Caprera, May 26, 1866.—Dear Friends,—l thank you for
your affection. Tho oath of the grandchildren of Fer-
rued.° and Capponi will have a fatal echo for the oppress-
ing foreigner.—Ever yours, G. GARIBALDI."
THE Bisuor OF BATII AND WELLS.—The health
of Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, has consider-
ably improved, but he was unable to conduct his own ordi-
nation on Sunday last. It was taken for him by Dr
Anderson, vicar of Clifton, formerly Bishop of Rupert's
LAnd.