A NEW ARM OF WAR.

Evening Post, Issue 67, 27 April 1865, Page 2

A NEW ARM OF WAR.

A "Beemaster" writes: — "Let me in. form the Admiralty of a new arm which in extremity — for otherwise it would be sacrifice of too many combatants— may be used in naval warfare. But perhaps Lord Clarence Paget may find some difficulty in securing its adoption. A small privateer with 40 or 50 men, having on board some hives full of bees, was boarded by a Turkish galley rn^§. Ned by 500 seamen and soldiers. As soon as the latter came alongside, the crew of the privateer mounted the rigging with their hives, and hurled them down on the deck of the galley. The Turks, astonished at this novel mode of warfare, and unable to defend themselves from the enraged bees, became so terrified that they thought of nothing but how to escape their fury, while the crew of the small vessel, defended by the masks of gloves, flew upon their enemies sword in hand, and captured the vessel almost without resistance. But, as many of my correspondents are clergymen, I can recommend to the ministers of Belfast an admirable prescription for the extreme case of a Belfast mob sacking their rectories and mansa9. The Mayor of Belfast, also, might take it into his grave consideration, should the citizens, instead of trying to convert each other by argument or scripture have recourse to those fashionable weapons which they lately 1 wielded with so much effect. During the

confusion occasioned by a time of war a mob of peasants assembled in flohenstein, in lihuringia, attempted to pillage the house of the parish minister, who, having in vain employed all his eloquence to dissuade them from their design, ordei-pd his servants to fetch his beehives and throw them in the middle of the furious mob. The effect was what might be expected— they were immediately put to flight and happy to escape unstung." — Times.