LATEST EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 269, 30 May 1855, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Vp-VV FkATURB IN THE WOOL iBADEpA dlVfide in wool seems springing up between rC ♦ li,\nd l^nce. The French barque Siam has JiistsailcKl ir < { 161[ . ba , es of W ' Priuch market. In 1851 France bought Jf 0 S blfes of wool in the London market, and v with the late remission by the Emperor of !Cf ench of 12 per cent, in the duty.on direct 1 pnents from the wool growing countries, c c can l.c no question as to the rapid eXien- • f this most important branch of colonial Sources. ' The La Juste and the Siam have ,w>,dv failed during the present wool season, #^ie La Brune and La Mathilde are now in SKoiir loading. In addition to wool, the Siam also took large parcels of tallow, hides, timber, and copper ore.— Nelson Examiner. A New Bullet Extractor.— The frightful list of our wounded at the hard-fought battles of Alma and Inkennann suggested to Mr. Izra Miles (of Stoke Hammond) the idea of constructing an instrument for extracting bullets from the wounds with comparative ease, rapidity and safety. The contrivance is very simple, consisting" of a small air-pump and cylinder, to which a tap is affixed. To this tap is attached a suitable length of flexible tubing, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, lined inside with silver wire to prevent its collapsing At the other end of this tube there is a small globe, from which a tube sufficiently minute to pass into it bullet wound is fixed, the end terminating with an India rubber collar. On the top of the irlobe tliere is a small tap in order to admit a probe to pass down the tube to sound when on the bullet. The mode of operation is this :—A vacuum is created in the cylinder, the tube before alluded to is passed into the wound, and when it is -scertained to be on the ball the tap in the cylii 'er is opened, when the bullet becomes iixei. to the'tube by the vacuum thus created, and is thus withdrawn. The great merit of this invention consists in its obviating the necessity of the painful and dangerous operation of cutting out bullets, and by its means a medical man with the aid of an assistant to work the air-pump would be able to accomplish the work which now occupies many surgeons. When the cylinder is once exhausted, it would extract several bullet 3 without, the necessity of again working the air-pump. The medical board has <>;iven directions to an eminent instrument maker to fit up the apparatus.

Flight of Poles from the Russian Conscription.—The Cologne Gazette pub'ishes the following dated from the Oder, January loth:— The persecution of the Poland refugees who crossed into Prussia with the view of escaping the Russian conscription, is being carried on unrelentingly by the authorities of the former state. Count Yon Westarp, a provincial judge in the southern part of Upper Silesia, gave directions on the 11th ult. to the subordinate officials of his district to arrest thirty-nine individuals, advertised as conscript deserters by Russia, and on ascertaining their identity to deliver them up forthwith to the Russian authorities in Poland. That even the poorest classes in Poland continue to dread and loathe [the Russian military service is shown by the circumstance that all the thirty-nine individuals in question, except two of them, who are Jews, are merely day laJwurers, poor workmen, and household servants. J "eir a ires lie between eighteen and twenty-five years, and they all worked for their living, belorethey took to fli<rht,in the districts called Mic<f ovitz, Slopnik, Olkuss, Sandotnierza, Onatov, a-d Oponynski.