, 1854-08-05

tesleu ldst month"; Dy lmmerSlng them IN
the water, so as to be sure Of their con.
ducting capacity. a' .-iI
The success was complete. Faraday
spoke of it in his lecture Of January 20, at
the Royal Institute, but without giving any
hint of the use for which these extraordE-
nary wires are intended r lJ
1t is clear that burner Of this kind has
only to make its way into the harbor Of
Sebastopol, during a fog, with a single
man at the wheel, in order to do the enemy
immense damage.
Again, it is not merely the large vessels
that carry this terrible weapon, bat the
smallest transport-ships are likewise provi-
ded with them. The forty leagues Of wire
already prepared show that the Russians
will not be allowed to capture a single
English ship, and we regret that she has
not admitted her chiEalrous ally TO the
benefits Of the same invention. d t.I-jct
now return to Woolwich, where saw,
at distance, the embarkation Of, series
ofiron cylinders, each borne by two soldiers
from the arsenal to the boats. This curl
Gus procession kept going and coming for
several hours, and it is said that it was re-
newed during a number of days. rlg
1t was not, assuredly, convoy Of pack
ed provision, to judge from the number Of
sentinels that kept guard over it, but Of
terrible explosives, from which issued an
iron wire, which the sailors called tie match.
/ will now give you what has been COM
muuicated to me, from reliable resources,
touching the destination Of these new In
struments Of death, whose construction Co
incides with the'enormous quantity Of Eng
lish flags made up in the penitentiaries and
prisons, and the forty leagues Of electric
wire Of which spoke above.
Numerous expeditions viii land on ex.
posed coasts, during the night they VIII
embrace about twenty men, who will quick
ly bury these explosives in various spots,
and place above each Of them small Eng
lish flag on a staff, as II the intention were
to take possession Of the territory. This
having been done, the boat will return to-
the ships from which they started, unreel-
ing the wire attached to the explosive,
which will burst at the moment when 4
picket Of troops approach to tear down the
British flag. II many of these flags figure
at the Kremlin, they will have, at least,
cost the Russians dear. .i. -S,
Generally speaking, whatever the fort
entrenehment or position the English may
be forced TO eVacuate, 1t win not be pru-
dent to set a foot inside Of them for Il
would not require fifteen minutes to pre-
pare an explosive Of the kind described,
and not an hour to arrange hundred Of
them around redoubt at the distance of
a gunshot. ae3rd gldfiav
There is one kind that will explode by
turning or lifting tree that has been
thrown down across road, and even BY
the weight of soldiers or horses. Thus yoa
see that if Illuminating powder has done il,
best for hunting purposes, it has not yet
shown us al it can do for war;. b.. iaIaiis
You are familiar with the. immense NOR.
tar in which the bomb is placed, Well /
a Scotch engineer and artillerist has re-
versed the case he puts the mortar into
the bomb-that is 10 say, he caps his NOR .
tar with cylindroconic bomb, as You
would cover your finger with thimble
in this way, the mortar can throw bomb.
as heavy as itself, but to short distance.
for the curved FIRE Of Qualifications. en 80
These enormous projectiles, quite similar
in form to the Delavigne balls, always fall
upon the pointed end and explode, BY per-
cussion, at the moment when they pene-
trate Easements or the deekgof nesselsylA
single bomb Of this description, we'll aimedQ
is sufficient to blow up magazine or e6mM
pletely gut man-of-war. ! have seen
large cavity, fourteen feet in depth BY
twenty feet diameter, followed out in.the
field where the experiment was tried, By
one Of these terrible missiles. Unfoftu-
nately, the construction Of them Is behind
/ hand, as the experiments were deferred
too long but there are large orders now
waiting to be filed ct private foundFies,
only that it was feared that II the vessels
were delayed to receive them, they would
not reach the black Sea in time 10 particis
pate in the affair which Is about to take
place between the Russian feet and the
French force, which may, afler all, fall q
victim to the chivalric impatience Of lis
commanders. n fac 1sisaa i.
A question Of humanity has been raised
as to whether the laws Of nations will per-
nit the employment Of warlike Instruments
other than those used by the enemy. lAd-,
miral Napier put an end TO the discussion
by the following ironical reply 2" II yod
are afraid Of hurting your enemy, put cot
ton bullets in your guns and rice balls ID
your cannon" f On N.aoss@err
/ The New York Herald states Ex-Alder-
man Wesley Smith, together with several
other Americans, went out IN tho last out
ward trip Of the Baltic, in company with,
NJ. Grnnwald, Russian officer bound 70
; St. Petersburg, and that they are in cor
tract with Russia for the destruction Of The
allied feet in the Baltic, BY means Of Tay-
lor's Submarine Armor and Colts Snbna-
rine Battery. They are to receive Rl00,.