Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Steamships, Scientific Practitioners, Medical Practitioners, Heroism, Nationalism

    Responds to a voyage of Emperor Napoleon III in the French steamer 'Le Newton', named in honour of Isaac Newton. Observes: 'After we have replied to the compliment by launching a Pascal or a La Place [i.e. after Blaise Pascal and Pierre S, marquis de Laplace] we may ourselves do honour to English genius and English devotion'. Adds: 'We may then have a Francis Bacon three-decker and a Florence Nightingale frigate', named after Francis Bacon (1st Viscount St Alban) and Florence Nightingale.