PHOTOGRAPHIC DISLOYALTY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1945, 10 October 1863, Page 5

PHOTOGRAPHIC DISLOYALTY.

Parsing along any of our fashionable West ond streets one is surprised to find how intimate our pho tographers seem to bo with royalty. There is scarcely an attitude in which the Prince and Princess of Wales can stand or sit, that these gentlemen have not oausrht and " registered" for thoii' own peonniary profit. In tlie popular some, at least, " A divinity doth hedge a king,' 1 which the Oomt poitniit-paiiiteis take care not to violate. A loyal peisosiage, of old, was either represented clad in steel, " with truncheon based on hip," or clothed in the imperial pnrple, witlpciown and sceptre, or other insignia of his rank. Let us look into the first bookselleis' windows at the carles de visite, and see the modem manner of ti eating loyalty. There is the " true Prince" in what the police ignobly term a "billycock hat" and greatcoat, fimoUing a cigar to its veiy flibby last inch. Really, this la a fiee and easy style, which proves an, what intimate terms the photogiapUor unutt have been with his lloyal lliglmess in older to have taken him in such an nnguaided moment. Then we have his Royal Highness in a shooting jacket, his— Boyal Highness fit ft writing dojk, a back view of his lloyal Highness, a side view of his Roy.il Highnets, and a view of the same illustrious person seated on the ground. Really tho heir appai en t must have been about and "posed," his arms aiianged and his lega composed so as to form giaceful lines, in a manner which pioves that Royalty is nothing better than a lay figuie in the hand of the photographer. We perceive that our Itoj al sailor has fajlen into the iain,e manipulating hatids. He has no sftoner lccoveied from his fever* than he is putthiough his paces to suit the pin po«e of the photographer. He smiles gi imly at us with the bob of his cooked hat to the left of his nose — he smiles pleasantly with the bob to the right of hw nose — he grasps his swoul fiercely — he leans upon it elegantly — he comes before i}s placing vith his hat — lie stands at ease crowned witli the samo brightly brushed chimney pot. In shot t, the poor young piince, •iuhis present we.ik state, must have been tiled out by the w retched postme-mnster, who saw in eveiy fresh altitude of the Royal limbs the making of a good round sum. As for the poor Princess of Wales, when, we ask, will she be at rest ? Why not publicly announce that the illustrious lady will appear in a heiies of carles de ihite wearing the different articles of her trousseau > But we have still more tender gionnd to touch — the unwarrantable Hbeities liken with the pftjanced pair. Did the tyine'e c|asp the fair Dane's' hand of. his 'own a6coi d,' or ' was this position only a 'delicate arrangement of the' Belgian photographnr, for wo are gl.id to say no Enjj]i«|^j{p lja^ jft fjarpd w tq pffcnd goo(l taste ? fcjr. that jewelled whjto hand restuig on tl\e shoulder of her fiance ' aSurely pt incesses, of the most gushing native, do not do such things in public j and yet n.o pl)otagraplipr, ouo would think, would veil, ture upon suoh an arrant impertinence of his own accon). But whether it be joy or grief affuoting the Royal family, in some way tho lcn» of il>» "- penis to «py mto ,«• - c mQ&fc manner. We protest, on the public behalf, against the unwarrantable manner in which those sacred feelings are liunrd to commercial account. — The Sun. ' *

New SrsTiar of Medicine.— Dr. Teleplio Des-~ maitis, of Bordeaux, has for some monthi past been making use of a most e\ti.ioidinary medical ftnnedy which cannot fail to excite astonishment among those who hear of it for the first time. Some account of it has been published at Boidenuv, entitled System d?lnoculations Ourathes, fiom which we take a few particulars. That one disea°o may be cured or pi evented by inoculation with the vims of another, in, i\s thousands of peisons know, not a new idea : bi)t tliere is novelty in the fcuggestio.il that painful niuliulies may beciircq by causing Insects to sting the pait affected. Tliig. practice which t)r. Desmartis has been applying, and which he desires to extent), and, as his experiments on venomous inoculation have been cairied. on fifteen yeais, he doe 3 not speak without experience, They have been tried on plants as well as on animals, and with similar lesultq. Ue observed that plants inooiilatod with the vims of syphilis produced small cryptogamia on different parts of their surface, and that a second inoculation with another animal poison cleared the plants of these parasitic growths, and of the insects or animalcnlte which they had attracted. It has longbeen a medical tradition that leprosy is curable by the poison of certain serpents, and it is well known that poisonous drugs are administered in medicine as powerful alternatives in certain diseases. Dr. Huraboldt, nephew of the late illustrous Geiman, in his practice at Havanah, baa ascertained that the poison of the scoipion tiibe is a remedy for yellow fever, lie inoculated 2,578 men of the military and naval gariison ; 670 afterwards caught the fever, of them not more than sixteen died. A distinguished Frenchman, M. de flasparian, living Jjeaul fit \\\b fact cite'tV \>y Ijr. ljesmarfcifj, cotrnnunicated to him, a fact in his own experience. He had long been afflicted with a rheumatism, which kept him almost constantly infirm. One day, in picking up a handful of weeds in Jjig garden, h.e was stung hy a wasp qu the wrist, The arm g^'ejled, bu.fc the rljeuinatlc pain disappeared. Seeing tlili result, he caused lijmself to bo stung the next day, along the seat of pain in his leg, and waa again delivered from Buffering, and was able to walk with ease. This happened three years ago, and every subsequent reappearance of the malady has been cured by similar means; and, by a wasp sting on the neck, an Attack of bronchitis was overcome. Among other instanpes. mentiqn«4 by I}r. wp notice a l)ope)eis pose pi oliojera in a mai\, and epilepllform disease in a oliild, both cured by the sting of a scorpinu ; and it appears that lachrymal fistula, and some other diseases of the eye are curable by the sting of a wasp or bee. These ate curious facts. Their value will perhaps appear on further discussion. Dead insects and live leeches have long figured in pharmacy ; b,ufc it wjlj be something ijew to hays tq buy Jiving hymennpetra, hemifra, pp aptera, In wliipii ovder stinging insecti are found to be useful as medical remedies. Yet, after all, there may be nothing new in it; for, as M. de Gaspaiian remarks, arc we not told that Municanus, all important commander under Vespasian, used to carry about with lain a certain insect to cure tlje oye djseaso, \o wln'gu. be was »übjeofc ]— Ofuwibe)'*' Journal. Language. — We are told by a country clergyman, that *ome of the labourers in his parish, had not 3QO words in their vaoabulary. The vocabulary of the anoieut itges of ISgypt Amounts to 685 words. The libretto of an Italian opera seldom displays & greater variety of words. A well educated person in England seldom uses more than about 8,000 or"4>000 words in actual conversation. Accurate thinkers arid close reasoners, who avoid vague and general expressions, employ a larger stock ; and eloquent speakers may rise to command of 10,000. Shakspeaie, who displayed a greater variety of expression ' than probabjy any writer, produced all bi» ph>y« with, about 15,000 words. Milton's works are built up with abont 8,000; and the Old Testament has rU has to say with 5,642

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