The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-23
Mr.. and Mrs. Benefits Letters from Europe.

Mr. and mrs. BenneIPS LeIIeN from Europe
We have received, by the Hlberna, a series q
very interesting letters from Mr.. and Mrs
Bennett, and shall publish one every day unit
they shall have been exhausted
We are advised by Mr.. B. that he will send u
a fresh budget by the next steamship. We hav
no doubt but that they will be read with interes
by our patrons.
Annexed is the first Of those brought by tn,
Hlbernia t.
Paris, 18th Feb. 1847.
DR.. Wells, the Medical Discoversr OF the
Power OF Ether, I'm Paris-Singuiar Con.
trast-Oplnions on the United States In
Europe.
There Is nothing very exciting-nothing very
Notwithstanding very astounding, to-day. DR..
Horace Wells, of Hartford, the celebrated dis
coverer ofthe power and utility of ether or nitrous
oxide gas in surgical operations, has been In Paris
tor some weeks, endeavering to bring his claims
10 this discovery before the Academy of Sciences
II seems that Dr. Jackson, of Boston, who Dor
rowed the idea from DR.. Wells, taking time
by the forelock, had previously presented a
paper to the Academy, claiming the dis
covery. Dr. Wells, an amiable and modest
parsonage, has sufficiently, in the public mind,
refuted this assumption but he leaves Paris
to-day 70 return in the next steamer to the
Uaited States, for the purpose OF procuring am
pie testimonials of his priority and exclusveness
OF discovery. have no doubt he will return TO
Europe In the spring, and establish his claims be-
You'd contradiction. The discovery here is consid-
cred, among medical and sci ntifc men, as one
OF The greatest which has been made since the
time ofDr Jenner, who discovered the method of
vaccinaio Whatever meri;, fame, or emolu-
n~nt springs fron. it, properly belongs to DR..
Wells, and not to DR.. Jackson, who, at first, re-
pudiated and rdculed the idea when it was
revealed to him by Wells but who, afterwards,
finding it of real value, boldly came before the
world and claimed it as his own. This subject has
created a great sensation among the medical
circles in Paris The progress Of the contest be-
tween Wells and Jackson, shall watch with in
terest Justice ought to be done, though the
Heavens tall DR.. Brewster, the eminent Amer-
can surgeon dentist, and several other medical
men, have taken Dr. Wells by the hand, and
have no doubt they will see him through the woods
Of Paris very well.
Cracow, and the Spanish marriages, which
have animated the press and the politicians OF
Europe, during the last few months, have nearly
died away. The assembling of the Prussian
States General in Berlin, in April, and the sensa-
ton which that event has caused in Germany,
begin to absorb public attention, diversified, in
deed, with any amount Of misrepresentation upon
the United States and the war in Mexico. 1t is
curious to see the course taken on this matter by
the French journals. such as are supposed to be
Immediately under the influence of the govern
ment The English journals are equally hostile
and equally unjust to the United States but
they have old grudges and fresh jealouses-
Bunker Hill, OF he last century, and sad visions
ofthe next There is yet a lingering hope among
the politicians of France, and in some Of the
green ones OF England, that Mexico will adopt
monarchical ideas, and send for European
prince to rule over her destinies. Louis Philippe
has considerable assortment of young princes,
who would have no objections to become kings
and emperors in the new world. They would sup
ply any defciencyoi he royal raw material in the
new world. The Due Montpenser has an old
claim in virtue OF his youn, wife The transmuta-
ton OF Mexico into an empirr, or kingdom, I'M
der branch of some of the ,yal dynasties Of
Europe, would aid and assist the empire of Brazil,
and be the means ofprolonging its existence, and
extending its system on the other side of the At.
lanto. These ideas are not visionary among the
statesmen and politicians of Europe. They be.
ievethem as they do the truths of algebra. 1t was
but the other evening thata distinguished literary
man, attached to the press of Paris, and formerly
in the diplomatic service of his country, told me
that the Americans could not send feet to ses
that their men could not fight aeet-that they
were good sailors, and could work single ship
but that they could not manage feet, or worl
the guns SO we'll as the French or English, and
that 1.-THE American feet attacked 8. Juan de UlGs
they would be defeated. l hope the American
tars, men and officers, will take the first chance
to prove the contrary.