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Show A1ERRIBLE ENGINE OF WAR. Invulnerable armor plated ships and impregnable forts are in danger of being be-ing so no longer. The inventions in the art of destruction fully keep pace with those designed to benefit mankind man-kind ; and the prospects are that in a few years iu.can.-4 will be available by which hosts of oppiii.'g enemies can destroy each other in the speedU-.-t and ni'-.st scientific manner de-iiabic. Some people see in this a means ly which war will end. but a surer means would be by justice and right obtaining ascendancy over the minds of rulers and the nations generally. I":.: iuveiitiou t'-r destiuctive p:r; that we have seen a notice jl, i- a uiuamic laortrr capable of tin u'.v-::-4 a shell weighing. with its charge of p.ovder, nearly a ton and a half. Two ef these monster engine have been re ectitiy made at uulwich, Englaii J, and shells thrown fiom t'aein with a charge of seventy pounds of powder, have been projected a mile and a half, which have, in falling, sunk twenty-five twenty-five feet into the earth. Against such terrible engines of war the strongest ships would bo powerless. Instead ot striking horizontally, as ordinary cannon can-non shots do, they would fall ou the level surface, tearing, destroying and shattering to pieces everything in their way. It is stated their range cm be easily increased to three or lour miles. An authority on the subject says that one such pill ''would be a sufficient dose for any kind of a ship, or fort either, if it exploded inside." Ordinary Ordi-nary bombshells have been destructive enough; but these put out of countenance counte-nance any projectile yet brouglu into use in the butchery of war. Scienee must ikw be directed to the invention of some proportionate defensive meauj against in.-.'i aa engine of destruction. |
