Show new hew and destructive engines of war the paris correspondent of the ti gazette gives the following new en gines of which will be brought i into requisition by the present european war wa r he says aada I 1 I 1 I 1 the new invention for the more rapid de Bt ot ruction of human beings chith the wr is bringing to light especially especial lly in england will surpass all expectations the th arsenals of en gland glada have for vi a long time been closed s even to members of Parliament while these theda new D aw and terrible machines w wre were re being con constructed 1 1 ted and experimented upon and no knowl knowledge e d of their existence even was perm Ht until no now called forth by actual service many years yearb ago 1190 the english government had it a proposition be fore them to adopt magners wagners Wag ners floating gun and hesitated A member of parliament exclaimed he demands but andyes and yet you ho hesi 8 i state slate hasten to buy this mac machine mabbin bin declare W wa art against aminat france and you will destroy her marine in M a few w days time no attention was paid to td chiq alii i apostrophe at the time in france and apparently parent ly none in ih england but akis th is terrible invention v ven tion of winch which ae ahe public has ceased to talk and which was even ridiculed at thet the tune itne has blen bien maturing in concealment in the arsenals of and is ia now ready to go 96 out on its work of destruction I 1 T the fie count lavalette captain of military marine ivarine in in france who knew the construction of this gun it is said made endeavors to have ic it adopted b by the mi minister ter of marine under louis lodis pe I 1 alt t asti is i y along congreve guu gun w e g glides des along on the e water in ill a straight line till it at strikes ikes the vessel at which it is directed when it thrusts into its sides its iron head containing two pounds of fulminating po powder A ader oi of mercury when the fire attains chiq explodes blowing a hole in the vessel teft or r twelve feet in diameter which it is impossible for fai them to c lose close up tip us lie they do the round holes made by cannon balls bails in admitting that the russian fleets beets shall retire under the unapproachable fortresses of cronstedt Cron stadt gild and sebastopol Seba they can not tie be in safety from this terrible congreve Congre vp gun which barries a almost most to 0 any distance within n the ahe reach or of thi th aim ahn and far beyond the reach of any ther other gun un it can not be prevented from passing si n g through rough tt the most contracted straits where I 1 ships p 8 pass the sub submarine marin boats ari are so perfected at this chis moment thal thai they can reach and attach a burner to an ship wit without hout running the least danger experiments are also being made with an asphyxiating asphyxia ting ball which dois does not kill but which paralyzes paralyze i an entire crew for several hours or until they are made imade prisoners they are embarking a large larg number of burning explosive 1 balls which explode invariably when they strike even in t ae body of a ahre for they inflame at the moment of discharge charge aio from oi a gain ann and fly burning like small Con Cong greves revea I 1 arii ank I 1 til the moment of explosion when they may ap ply fire to the ammunition chest cheat and other inflammable material air as easily and as a sul shiely ely as s if they ethey were to fall in a stubblefield stubble field they are furnishing two small steamboats of a singular appearance which will carry only two twi enormous guns gun placed on the forepart of the vessel the walls of these littie vessels have a thic thickness anesi of six feet made of oak standing upright and this covered with a mattress mattrass of cotton substance afoot and a balf thick which is impenetrable to a bullet ind and this again covered with aish a sheeting of ironald iro iron nand and lead its prow has the angular form jofs of cuirass ini intended ended to turn a bullet the roof or deck is I 1 is covered in the same way so go as ti allow tho the bombs tp glide into the spa see without ding d ing daffia damage ge the fire hip thip t very heavy and a bad will wah be towed and let loose at the proper moment to ap approach prof h near the besses ves ses elthor either when at anchor or laying to which it will attack fore and aft with bombs thrown between wind and water and sprinkling uie ship with a shower of grecian fire one of these burners taking by surprise e a fleet of vessels in a calm could with ease destroy the whole fleet and ana yet it only requires the labor of ten determined men too to perotte it the peace society have arita agitated ted the question in En england arland of how far a nation is justi justified Aed in employing other and more desrue destructive methods innvar in war than ahse e employed mp loyed by the enemy ad miral mira napier has replied to those propositions with irony if you fear to hurt aart the enemy put into your guns baus balls of cotton and into your I 1 cannon cake s 1 11 of rice I 1 the english anglia fleet is largely provided with ball balloons intended to carry inflammable mate rials to scatter over towns villages and fleets when the wind favors such operations another invention still more mare te ribble an all tho the rest but of which the construction has not yet been made known except to a very small number of persons is about to he be sent se nt out to destroy the russians all these inventions are highly curious and interesting in the history ot of the war but rather humanity I 1 |