New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-21
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The Canada's mails reached this City yes

The Canada's mails reached this City yes
te-cay morning from Boston. We have already pub-
lshtc the DraclYal items ofnews BY telegraph rom
Halifax Tie following additional particulars are
From, our fles Of British ana Continental napcrs:
lr.Ly AND HUNGaRY.-The rumor Of letter sad
- have heea sent ny the Austrian Government -
those Of Naples Rome and Tuscany. assuring them
ot tie a6 Of a Russian army IA iSe ~ another ia
ian r. ouilon. has been contraicie1 hY Lord Pal
rlcrs-cr anc n the same time MS loris1p, N reply
20 o. question ru; 20 am - tre House o. commons
n reference 70 The Hungarian refugees stated t8M
the British munster has received n length rom the
Turkish Government. promise thai AoS>'ia ana
BIS COMPANIONS shat Dc released from the z cit.tlit
THv SNAIL TELEGRAPH. The Press has the fol
loving account Of alleged uew experiment o
Wha, IS called ~te.cSaPa.e eSsa-s3t., .c -,AAt Is
comm LnicatiCn Il a distance ~ means o. Snil->
" Before commencing tie account o. this strange OK
VeumtLt. Jet u declare distinctly thar Ne IL not
sccCf ~ any way the responsibility Of the assertions
0t MS inventors. Curious facts were pro iucet la
OurureSsuce by means oian apparatus IN which there
snals, many snals, tnt some %; the arge> SIZE,
bat DO not know 70 y hat extent y IS possible -
correspond rom one hemiS Qhere % nc other by
means of universal language. and u. "a The celeny
and certainty which the inventors dal;eT themselves
10 have obtained But be this rs Z may, and spite OF
our personal doubts and the silence 0i the demon
SiratCT We fanced Ne saw something NaicA vas
ucfftsr a INVESTIGATION nor an halluclhaiion.
On sunday, The 81 Of August, we went 10 - Route
dA>uitreS. al the BausuolieS. 70 the house OF VI
y.
nouuced an experiment was to De made \ small
number OF persons were invited. and among them
were VI. Victor Hugo and VI. Emile dc GlTardig.
TIE master of the house led Us ~ sort OF barn.
where We found at each cnd TWO structures IN wood
placed on oDen stands. In the front OF each was
iaree wooden wheel moving an It's center. THIS
wheel. about Two yards m diameter, presented the
most singular appearance go or 400 >nll> We're
kept immOyahC BY means Of a sort OF paste IN re-
StryOr IN ZinC the open part OF the shells WAS To-
ward the spectator. and some OF them pfotruded
tnclr heads On the Wheels we're lines OF metal, on
one OF which were me Snal>. ana on me otltr i'-
fer> OF he phabe' The reservoirs IN zlnc IN which
the suails were placed We're lined with cloth and
copper lac me yoltalc Pile, and al the reservoirs
were connected by conducting wires which we're
roI scted on the axis of The wheel. One apparatus
va, o ,orve 10 send dispatch, the other 10 receive
T. w Will. to make the demonstrations clearer.
call ore d" PARIS and the other London
in turning the wheel The letter required was
brought To IAN OrCnirg. and Designated hy anecdle.
Each time thar Pans sent uN letter 20 me opsning.
,lt cc>irnated II bv the needle. NJ BenolSt IN the
structure called London. wrote u with pencil on
paper after having discovered ~ on his own wheel,
w. A. he SAID. moving a snail IN ITS reservoir on the
letters which snail made movement on passing OE
the letter Indicated This Is the mystery, ana we
know no more of n than YOU DO We wrote IN the
box repre- SCniing Pats the word enter. and Il was
rerGe,i'v reproduced 1t London Another person
wished to send the word feiiS. but either from want
of practice. or Irregularlty OF the machine, VI b'-
roi,f received the letters { IL ID. We ourselves
RECOMMENDED with VI. Victor Uuso ~ The SIDE ~
rs IN the enclosure Paris. aud We sent = y /,
which WIS perfectly reproduced IN LONDON Ihen
We sent the word Deus, w;th mark . between the
1 and : and n was perfectly received anu repro
fuc,t such = what We saw AN app 'rainS oi wool.
correr. zinc and snauS sent % similar apparatus,
al % distance of IS yards. three words but was IL
really the sndiiS which acted VAS IL SihpN we
nile formeG by the uNiapOsltion OF copper ana Nnr
Could the same effect be produced IN the same man
n.r. at one distances These and other questions
can only lie solved by experience"