WARNER Ournoirn.—The Irish idea of using locomotive steam-engines as batiste
to cast granite at the English, suggests to Mr. Hadley of Leeds the announcement of a more terrible destructive ready to the hand of "the astute chemist" He describes it with a relish— "I can prepare a liquid, a pint of which in a glass grenade shell, thrown through a 'barrack-window in the night, would silently extinguish the whole of its living inhabitants—or broken in the face of an advancing force, horse or foot matters not, with the wind in their teeth, must infallibly arrest their progress by death or paralysis; which effect would be equally well answered by throwing such shells of earthenware into bodies of soldiers, from which the most dire rout must inevitably follow. I refrain, for the sake of hu- manity, mentioning for common perception the name of this terrible com- pound."
" Anch'io son pittore ! "—we have chemists for England as well as Ito- land. Let us give up the ordinary "national defences," on one condition —that some great manufacturing chemist will contract to do for any in- vading army. A few gallons should suffice. Nor should the dissolved enemy be wasted : why not convert the whole mass to artificial guano ? let the distressed agriculturist, 5 hi Mechi, plough in "the proud invader " ; and leave the finish of the work to the French bread and biscuit baker." Thus we might nobly turn our swords to ploughshares, thus reconcile Cheap Bread and Protection. Thus prepared, we might Cheerfully invite the French to take the field, and teach them to land with a vengeance.
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