The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-05 00:00:00

violent attack of illness is often carried offjby a
profuse perspiration. A hot, or vapour bath, has
been known to produce most beneficial results, on
the same principle that copious draughts of cold
water have sometimes turned the crisis of a fever
which defied all the drugs of the pharmacopeia.
There can be no certainty that the plan would be
successful, but it deserves at least a fair trial, being
based upon reasonable principles, and recommended
by those who have seen it tried. The experiment
could scarcely be more fatal than the pole-
axe, nor could it be more likely to dis-
seminate infection than suffering the disease to

take its course. The returns referred to above
show us that out of 73,549 attacked from the com-
mence►vent of the disease, 41,491 have died, besides
13,931 having been killed, leaving only the slender
balance of 7,045 recovered, and 11,082 remaining.
It is therefore quite time that any one who has a
remedy which he believes to be efficacious should
come forward with it, and if he can show
sufficient evidence in support of his theory, the
experiment should be fairly tried on a large enough
number of cases to arrive at a fair conclusion.
Plans that may succeed in individual cases may
fail in the aggregate, but if nothing is tried the
loss is certain. It would be well if some sana-
toriums were immediately erected in different
parts of the country where the disease is raging with
most severity, so that none need fear that they
would increase the danger ; and the best recom-
mended systems, more especially the radiating heat
system, which Mr. URQUHART has already offered
to try on a large scale at his own expense,
should be applied and tested. It is quite evident
that the ordinary routine of veterinary, or, indeed,
of general, science, is totally incapable of grappling
with the evil, and, therefore, we must look beyond
the usual remedies to some more exceptional and
peculiar mode of treatment. Let us, at all events,
do what we canto check the onslaught of the enemy;
and we cannot pretend that, in spite of all our care,
the issue has as yet been satisfactory.
With regard to the heavy losses incurred by the
owners, the suggestion of a national insurance
against losses from the cattle plague has been re-
newed by Sir J. KAY SHUTTLEWORTII, who
argues very sensibly on its behalf. In
carrying out the measure he recommends it
would only be necessary for the agricultural body
to receive a form of aid similar to that extended
during the cotton famine to the manufacturing dis-
tricts under the Public Works Act. Some measure
of this kind is undoubtedly advisable, since, in dis-
tricts where the plague has raged with ex-
treme violence, no local association would be
able to stand the strain upon its resources,
for the outgoings would greatly exceed the income.
The Magistrates of Middlesex held a meeting
yesterday to consider the recent orders in Council,
and to discuss the present aspects of the cattle
plague. There was a full attendance, and it was
generally agreed that the position was a serious one,
and that it was neeessary some vigorous measures
should be taken to deal with the growing evil.
Unfortunately it was difficult to decide what mea-
sures were really the most efficacious ; but the meet-
ing concluded by appointing a committee, with
power to confer with the Lord Mayor and the Cor-
poration. It is quite evident that it is time to treat
the matter as a national question, by a temporary
interference with the freedom of trade, in closing
the fairs and markets, by the establishment of some
national system of insurance and compensation, and
by giving a fair and unprejudiced trial to methods
of cure which are confidently asserted to be effica-
cious, and should not be condemned untried.

Mr. Bogy ILL, Q.C., M.P., has been entertained
by his constituents at Guildford, and the hon. and
learned gentleman was presented with a piece of
plate as a testimony to ti a ieit tor his
private character and public services. Mr. BOVILL,
in returning thanks, made an interesting speech, in
which he dwelt upon some topics of public impor-
tance, beginning by expressing his conviction that
it must always be a source of gratification to every
Englishman to find that after he has honestly and
fearlessly endeavoured to do his duty in that position
in which it has pleased GOD to place him he receives
for his labours the approval of his fellow-
countrymen. Mr. BovILL adverted to the attempt
made by the Whig Government to deprive
Guildford of one of its representatives, and stated
that he had raised his voice on behalf of its
ancient privileges, while he showed that the Go-
vernment adopted a very different course with
respect to the stronghold of their own party,
leaving Tamworth, Tiverton, and Tavistock un-
touched. Certainly this was a species of reform
quite in keeping with the tactics of the Whigs,
on the principle of the man who condemned
those sins he cared not for committing, and made
no denunciation against his favourite vices. An
achievement of Mr. BoviLL's, to which he was
able to point with satisfaction, was having brought in
a bill to ameliorate the position of contractors with
the Crown and the Government. Theperiod of the
Crimean war testified to the hardships and injustice
to which that class were subjected ; but innumerable
delays and obstacles, as usual, have interposed in
the way of effecting an improvement. In 1860,
however, the measure was passed which has attained
the desirable end of " placing the subject upon equal
terms with the Sovereign, and enabling him to ob-
tain substantial justice from the ordinary tribunals
of the country." The public in general do not fully
appreciate the advantages of such a step being
taken, but those immediately interested in the
working of such a measure know and feel its vast
advantages and substantial benefits.

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the extreme notions of the Liberation Society,
which aim at the total separation of Church and
State, and the suppression of all religious educa-
tion in the schools of the country. Mr. BovILL
is a zealous advocate for religious instruction
being
maintained in our national schools, and
very properly
explains some of the chief evils that
would arise if the principle were once given up.
The children of the working classes are not likely
to gain much religious instruction at home, and,
besides, the State has no right to depart from
the Divine precept of training up a child in
the way he should go, and this can never be
by a mere secular education. Mr. BOVILL alluded
to the remarks made by Mr. BRIGIIT and others in
favour of the American system, but he declared that
many citizens of the United States have expressed
their regret at not possessing a system of religious
education like that enjoyed by the working classes
in this country. While duly advocating the main-
tenance of the present system, Mr. BoviLL sets an
example to intolerant politicians by desiring that
reasonable support be given to the institutions of
the Dissenters.

Referring to some of the most notable passages
in Mr. BRIGHT'S recent speeches, the honourable
and learned gentleman pointed out the discrepan-
cies and inconsistencies that appeared in his state-
ment. He declared that the Conservatives were
very obnoxious to the working classes. How is it,
then, asks 11,1 r, 1301 LL, that two Conservatives have

been returned for a great industrial community like

the borough of Liverpool, and also in a town like
Blackburn, composed almost exclusively of opera-
tives? The same thing has occurred in Preston;
while in the two seaports of Devonport and South-
ampton, notwithstanding all the Government influ-
ence, a Conservative member was returned in one
and two in the other. Like many others, Mr. BOVILL
thinks the majority of the returns favourable to
Government were in consequence of the great po-
pularity of Lord PALMERSTON, and that his suc-
cessors can never enjoy the same confidence.
They rely greatly upon the support of Mr. BRIGHT
and his friends, and certainly they have already
led them into mischief enough to show that. they are
dangerous allies and most unwise counsellors. Re-
specting the diatribes of Mr. BRIGHT and his fol-
lowers, the hon. and learned gentleman very truly
remarked that they never showed in what manner
the House of Commons failed to discharge its duties
in an adequate manner, although they were con-
stantly lavishing abuse upon it in an unsparing
manner and with great vehemence of expres-
sion. Great fault was found in the system of
education at present existing, and also in the great
want of education that exists ; but the House of
Commons has never been backward in giving its
attention to this important subject, and therefore
such strictures fall to the ground. Referring to
Mr. BRIGHT'S extreme opinions, Mr. BOVILL
showed that the effect of conferring the franchise
indiscriminately. on the working classes in
America had been to prevent those men
from taking office who were the best qualified,
from their position and education, to preside
over the government of the country. The hon.
and learned gentleman concluded his interesting
speech by declaring his intention to give an earnest
support to all measures calculated to preserve that
pure and glorious constitution which has acquired
for this country the admiration, if not the envy, of the
civilised world, under which our wealth has increased,
our commerce has flourished, and we have been
enabled to enjoy in peace and freedom an amount
of prosperity such as has never yet been known
among any other people. Mr. CUBIT; M.P., made
an amusing speech, in which he drew a lively pic-
ture of the thousand ills which the present Govern-
ment would have to encounter, and declared that
the vaunted majority was composed of a mere
" fortuitous congregation of atoms." He declared
that they had lost their chief stronghold in the name
and influence of Lord PALmEnsmx, and that there
must necessarily exist a source of internal weakness
in " a combination which included the members of
he Israelitish persuasion, the Papal brigade, the
members for the metropolitan boroughs, the Scotch
Radicals, and the hereditary Whigs." Such a pros-
pect is not very encouraging certainly, nor one very
calculated to realise the truth of the saying, " Union
is strength."

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.

The Paris papers are so unanimous in expressions
of satisfaction at the brief but admirable answer of
the Emperor to the addresses presented to him on
New Year's Day that I refrain from translating
any extracts upon the subject. The absence of
Lord Cowley, our Ambassador, has drawn forth a
sort of sneer from one of the journals notorious for
making mischief out of nothing. A plain fact dis-
poses of the diatribes of the mischief-maker. Lord
Cowley, who has been in England for some weeks,
made his arrangements to be in Paris on New
Year's Day, but there was such a heavy sea in

the Channel when he arrived for embarkation
at Dover that he delayed his departure, and thus
he was only enabled to reach Paris on Tuesday

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was much annoyed at the circumstance, which
frustrated his intention, but an official communica-
tion has been made to the Emperor explaining the
reason of the noble earl's absence.

A striking illustration of the impotency and
malice of the opposition press in Paris is afforded
by the course taken by the Siecle. As I have
already told you, that paper, with an affectation
that a speech of the Emperor was not of much con-
sequence, did not publish it yesterday, although it
might easily have done so, and only copies it to-day.
Had any mischievous or virulent incident occurred
derogatory to the Government, it would have found
ample room for sympathetic commentary, but it will
hardly be believed that it dismisses one of the most
satisfactory royal manifestations of modern times in
this short sentence—

" We think we discover in these words the hope
of the cessation of distant wars, and the consecra-
tion of all that has been accomplished in Italy."
The moral of this is that his Imperial Majesty's
Opposition can say a great deal when the topic is
criminatory ; but be it a question of giving just
support or approbation, it must be silent or " damn
with faint praise."

In the list published by some of the papers of
eminent diplomatists who died during the last year,
the name of Count Nigra, the Italian Minister, has
been omitted. He was 67, and devoted a great
part of his life to the service of his country. He
was formerly the head of a banking-house at Turin,
but on the 27th of March, 1849, he was appointed
Finance Minister in the Delauney Cabinet, and was
afterwards a powerful and devoted member of the
Azeglio Ministry. The King of Italy has lost a
sincere friend, and the Italian people a man devoted
to their interests and to constitutional liberty.
Madame Recamier, the wife of the celebrated
French surgeon, has just died in Paris.
It is not true that the French Government is in-
disposed to conclude another treaty of extradition
with England. It is as desirous as the English Go-
vernment to give facilities to bring criminals to
justice. The treaty of 1843 had nothing political
about it ; but as the English Government could not
carry it into execution, the French Cabinet thought
it right to take advantage of the privilege allowed
to both parties, that of declining to renew it. The
subject, however, is still under consideration, and,
as I believe I have told you already, another treaty
wilt be arranged, the object of which will be to
facilitate the bringing to justice of all offenders,
be their crimes social or political.
All doubts as to the easy communication between
the Mediterranean and the Red Sea across the
Isthmus of Suez are removed by a despatch from M.
Lesseps, dated Suez, December 24, which is as fol-
lows :—" The galette Eugenie, for the Mediter-
ranean, arrived in 27 hours at Suez, with 30 pas-
sengers. She anchored in the Red Sea, opposite the
Hotel Anglais." M. Lesseps left Paris at the begin-
ning of December, and arrived on the 13th at
Ismailia. He embarked on the 14th in the Eugenie,
and landed at Suez on the 24th, the vessel being
one which could navigate the sea in calm weather.
From Ismaila to Suez the voyage is performed by the
new canal. A regular service is about to be established
between Marseilles and Port Said, so that among
other novelties of the present day may be reckoned
a trip across the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal
to the Red Sea, which will be performed in a com-
paratively brief period. In fact trips will ere long
be made from London to the Red Sea as easily, as
briefly, and as cheaply as a holiday visit to the
Rhine.

Lady thieves are often heard of in Paris. The
Police Correctionnelle has just punished one in
rather an exemplary manner. The passion or fancy
which she said she could not resist was to go to
shops, bargain for one article, and steal a great
many others. At her house the police found 39
remnants of silk or stuff, 13 pairs of trousers, 14
paletots, 8 waistcoats, many pairs of gloves, shawls,
watches, gowns, cloaks, and many miscellaneous
articles too numerous to mention, as the advertise-
ments say, all the produce of the irresistible passion