An Extraordinary Military Invention

Mr. L , the distinguiahed civil engineer and themist of the Rué de Londres, Paris, lias inveuted a rocket tbat will be a formidable engirió of defense. He has cb'ristened it tic fusee Satan - We have seeu this rocket made, and will endeavor to describe it toour read era. To tbe end of any ordinary rocket is attaohed a very slight reoeptaele of tin, huving exactly the shapo of a cm i cal bullet. lu thit receptuclü is airaug ed a chamber fi led with compositiot;, based, we believc, iipon sulpburet of carbon, whicb compoBition, once lighted, gives out considerable heat. A fuso cotnmuuicutes f rom tbis chamber with the top of the rookat. The tiu bullet i filled, just before bcing uscd, with petroleum oil. TLe lighted rocket rieea in the kir, and travurti-s tbe epace necessary to arrjve over a certaiu spot. Arrived above its object, tbe rocket sets fire to tbe fust, the composition iu tbe ehamber of the bullet takes ligbt, bursts itu en] velope, and at tbe saine time fires tbe petroleum, whicb fulla like a dieet of dame, and continúes burninr. Thisahe t of flame filis a space of tixteen to twonty-four square metres, aceording lo tbe aize of the rocket. No. 1 throvvs one lkro of petroleum, No. 2 two Utres, and Ho. 3 threo liires. They cao bc tbrown a distance of six kilometreg, and uimed with great preoisioo, beiug balanced by I mouns of a long siick attsobed to eacii tocket, whiub maintaius the elevatiou grireo to it at the time of diacharge. - Sodk intercEtiug experimeuts were made with tais weapoa at St. Cloud on tbe 19th of last irxmtb. Ia lesa than ton minutes a considerable space of ground was covored with a sna of fire. A com mitte oompoaed of superior officers of artiUöry presided over the experiments, and the General at tbeir head was appalled by the terrible natu e of tbis engiue of deslructiou. .lust imagina this sea of fire falli'g npon the Prustiiin masses, buruing everytbing, setting light to the eartridges in the foldiers' poutbca and to the amuaition van of the artillëry. Tbeir route would ba complete. The connnittee, iu i te report, has declared in ita opinión no civilized nation could mnko use of these sockets except for reprisals ; and it wouid be only in care of tbe Piussiaiitt firing upo'i os with petroleum bomba, auch as they tied at Sirasboarg, tbat wc ■hould bo ntitled to retalíate wiih tbe new rooket. However, it may be, the Oommiitee of National Defeuse hasgivea the inventor a large building on the Jiatignolle (lormerly a girl's sehool), aud lias ordered tbe immediate manuSicturc, on a large soale, of satan rock etst Krom day to day 2üO working ren vrill bo aotively employed, and withiu a few days we sbull havu a sumcient stock to enable ut to repay tba I'rus ■itns in their own ooin, '.(, as et Stias feourg, tbey make use cf unlawful weapoDf.