The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-26

DC general. This, however, 10 Poi,' "h'e', S%'
not be decided upon small scale. II is only by
having extensive orders execute, that he can
coed in effecting such saving IN the manufacture.
June 23-Preyously to the reading Of the differ
enl papers for this days sitting, the academy elected
a corresponding member IN the section Of mechanics
in the room of Nj. Possombroni. M. Cauchy pre-
sened in the name OF the section the following lists
of candidates l. M. Eveleyen of Berlin; q NJ
Venturo of Rome; 3, MIR. Moseley, of England I;
and in France, 1. M. Seguin, Of Montbard; and 2
M. Reech, of lOrient. Out of 40 votes, M. Seguin
had SO, end was therefore declared duly elected.
! paper was received from M. Martinez, stating
that he has discovered the means of carrying on the
Daguerreotype process gigantic scale, as COM
pared with what is now done. He can, he says
Daguerreotype an entire panorama, embracing $50
degrees. HIS process consists IN curyng the metal
| lie, plate, and causing the lens which reflects the
landscape TO turn by clockwork. The lens, in turn
| ing, passes over on side the whole space TO be
Daguerreotyped, and ON the other side moves the
refracted luminous cone to the plate, to which the
objects successfully conveyed. This IS very fine
in theory; but we should like to specimen pro-
duced by the process of M Martinez.
| M. Chazalon presented some new observations
on the tides of Akarva, in New Zealand, He con-
cludes that the action of the upon the tides in
creases with the declnation, and that the action Of
the moon appears to increase IN proportion as the
distance at the south pole dimnishes.
! A paper was received from Nj. Antonio Costa on
an inquiry which he is about TO make for the Boliv-
ian government, with view TO shorten the distance
which separates that country from Europe. Instead
of cutting through the isthmus of Panama. II is pro-
posed to render the Amazon river nayigable on the
eastern side of the Cordillcras. IL this scheme be
| practicable without an enormous expenditure, II will
stand good chance of being taken up by the CAPT.
talists Of Europe, without whose aid the government
of Bolivia can do very little; but there many
schemes foot, and each, according to its project
ors the best that could be devised that capitalists
| are very much puzzled how TO choose,
| An original if we cannot call it clever idea, was
communicated by the Baron de Colonge--an altache
| of the French legation in Bavaria He proposes
plan of conveying letters at the rate Of one hundred
| leagues per hour. This is not quick as the plan
of the English inventor, who has taken out a patent
! for conveying letters at the rate of 400 miles
| hour, through an exhausted tube, like Mr.. Vaance's
| tunnel, which was to transport passengers from
London to Brighton in ten minutes; but it is quick
| enough. And how does the scientific baron pro-
pose TO accomplish his feat Listen, gentle reader,
and wonder at the progress OF science in this nine
| teenth century. He would build small houses as
stations and provide each of them with revolving
lever, 300 feet long, which should throw the mail to
! the next station, and so on along the whole line
Would it not be more easy to adopt the schoolboy
plan of trap and BALI We need not say that the
| academy attached little importance to the communi
cation of the Baron de Colonge, and that it is not
probable a committee will be appointed to examine
and report upon his scheme. Wild as il appears,
|
this learned body from time to time
! M. Ramon de la Sagra presented a pamphlet in
Spanish, the cultivation of the sugar cane on the
coast of Andalusia, principally towards the Straits
of Gibraltar. This cultivation, it appears, is of
very old date; and there are, at this moment nine
manufactures at work, Supplying more than thirty
millions of pounds per year. Two sorts of cane
are grown by the Andalusians. The small Sort
called criOie in the West Indies, and which cul
tivaed formerly in the Baearic islands and the Ca
naries; and the larger of St. Domingo which was
introduced in 1916. M. Ramon de la Sagra thinks
would be easy to raise in the south of Spain the
tire quantity of sugar consumed in that country Per-
haps it would; but whether would be wise to do So
! is another question Spain has colonies, from which
she derive sugar than she can use; and the
! land in Spain, which is even now cultivated for
sugar, might be devoted to better purposes. BY the
cultivation of sugar at heme, she is also doing an in
jury to her mercantile shipping interest, at time
when efforts are being made TO restore the royal navy
to respectable footing. How is Spain to man her
ships, if she does nothing TO foster the nursery from
which crews alone to he hadl We have q strong
instance in France of the rtnous effects Of carrying
| the idea of homegrown TO too great extent
France could grow twice the quantity of beet-root
sugar that she could consume; but it was found ne
cessary to check the growth, and support the colo
MES, for they supply her with sugar at a cheap
er rate than she grow IT, and at the time,
! the shipping interest IS provided for No country
should entirely neglect the means of producing in
III
stances arise to throw il upon its own internal
resources; but this should be done rather with
view to the future than the present In the present
case, M. Ramon de la Sagra's statement is only i'm
portan as showing what Spain could do If, at some
future day, she should be unable TO obtain from
her colonies the abundant supplies that she now
receives.
M II. LIE Guern, author of work on premature
nermcnt, laid before the academy the copy of ne
tition which he has presented to the King and to the
Chambers, praying that measures may be adopted to
prevent this horrible calamity, Of which he mentions
several rather recent instances. We have not read
M LIE Guerns work, but we have still vivid recol-
lection of work on the same subject, published
twenty years ago by DIR McNab, who was physi-
clan to the Duke of Kent, and practisod many years
| in Paris and Montpelier. The cases of premature
burial in France, cited by DIR. McNab, were so n,l-
merous and horrible MS TO have been utterly incredi
| BILE if they had not been well authenticated. lie
had taken care, however, TO mention only those
which could be well proved, but which did not
amount, perhaps, to one-twenteth part of what
could have been collected if the government had in
suted inquiries in every part of the country. We
remember, in particular, very striking
A young female in Of the provincial towns, who
had twice in her life been in trance, from which
she had recovered died then appeared, length;
for three physicians who were called in to examine
the body of the young woman declared that she
positively dead. Considering, however, what had
previously occurred, the authorities of the place per-
mitteu the Douy 10 ne kept ABOVE Srouhu ior one
week. unless decomposition should in the mean time
take place. The week passed without any symptom
Of decomposition, and three days more were allow
ed; but at the end Of that time the inhumation was
peremptorily ordered The body was in the cof-
nm, the lid Of which WINS about to be nailed down,
when another young female. who had been school
fellow of the supposed deceased, knet down to
kiss her for the last time As she remained in
this position nearly five minutes, her friends be.
came alarmed lest her grief and agitation should
/ become too great and were about to tear her
/ from the body, when she warned them off with
| her hand, excaiming at the same time, 'Ele rest
/ pas more." In kissing the lips of the supposed
corpse, this female had fancied that the body breath
ed, and, breathing in her turn into the mouth she
soon convinced herself that her Imagination had not
deceived her. In ten minutes il was evident to all
present, by the application ofa glass over the mouth
that the breath had not departed entirely from the
body, which was then removed from the coffin, and
placed in warm bed. In an hour, by the use of
I resoratyea tho moor Girl uoo ius. hofnrc M,