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West Coast Times, Issue 261, 25 July 1866, Page 2

We find the following interesting account of a new photographic discovery in the " Sydney Morning Herald" of the 30th ult..- —" We have seen a most elegant 3pecimen of photographic art by a process just discovered by a German. We believe the invention was hardly known in England or France at the departure of the mail. A piece of paper, about tho size of an ordinary address-card! is produced, upon which nothing can be seen. A piece of blotting-paper is then put over it, and gently damped. It is laid on a plate, and coveml with water. After an hour the water is changed, and tho new bath continues two home. A third change of water then takes place, and this completes tho process, oxcept drying. The specimen we have seen submitted to this process is evidently tho photograph of a most beautiful picture— an angel bearing tho spirit of a child to heaven. It is impossible to conceive anytUing more elegant and tender than these figures, who arc rising above tho city where tho visible moon and stars overhead reflect the shadow upon the water. It is evident that such an invention may be applied to many purposes where secresy io desired, there b iug nothing in the appearance of the paper to indicate the chemical changes jvhich have operated upon it."

" Tell me angelic host, ye messengers of love, shall swindled printers here below have no redress above?" The shining angel hand replied, " To us is knowledge given ; delinquents on the printer's books <xm nevsr enter Heaven."