The Paris correspondent of the Times affirms that a Trappist
has solved the question of the electric light. He has made it regular, and reduced its production below the cost of gas. Abbaye Grace has already been lighted with it, and factories for its production are being erected at Lyons and Paris. The mode by which the inventor pro- poses to produce heat will be published to the world on December 16,, and the secret of the light on the day of the opening of the new Exhibition. Every householder in England will rejoice to hear that there is a prospect of so severe a blow to the avaricious monopolists, who, under the name of gas companies, tax and poison us all. They well deserve all that science can do to supersede them. For years it has been in their power, by a small reduction on exorbitant dividends, to Purify gas, and they have declined to make the attempt; so that while_qas in Scotland is a pure white light, as innocuous as any other,
gas in London is a yellow haze, emitting a smoke which turns silver black in three days, and spoils pictures is eine.
