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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 17 March 1863, Page 2

Lakoh Cannon. —lt is an error tosuppo.se the manufacture of hirjre cannon a perfectly mode n accomplishment. The 22-inch >;un of Constantinople, and the 23-inch guns of the Dardanelles, were made numy years ago. The great gun of the Kremlin, in Moscow, is reputed U, be the largest m the world. It is 06 inches in calibre, IS fjjt long, and weighs O7.')00 lb. The inscription shows it j to have been made by Andrew Tchoff, in the Moscovian year 709-3. or 15'SGof the Christian era. The largest cannon cast in England is one manufactured at the Mer.-cy Steel Works, Liverpool. It lias a bore of 13 inches, weighs J4 tons, exclusive of the carriage, and throws a solid shot of 270 lb. It is two inches loss in calibre than the new American navy Dahlgrens.—London Jiccicw. Lately a most, important discovery has been made by Mr Anderson, the Assistant Superintendent of Woolwich Arsenal, of a simple procc 3 by which steel is rendered as tou'di as wrou lit iron without losing its hardness. This change is effected in a few minutes by heating the metal and plunging it in oil, after which the steel Cfn be bent but scarcely broken. Accident from Fire. —A girl named Ferrington. reining wit hor parents in Bourkesi.rt;yt, Woo ooin< oho, sustained serious injuries on Sunday evening through hor clothus taking fire. She w • stundi within a short distance of the (ire, when her dress, largely expanded by crinoline, touched the bars of the grate, and, before she was a ware of it, her clothes were in flames. She ran out screaming; and, assistance being at hand, the flames were subdued, but uot bof«*e they lu.cl inflicted very severe injuries. A medical man w called in without delay, and he dress l the wounded parts.— Sydney ntail Miss Clackit was boring a lady who dislike* sc- -.dal, and, amoiitf other things, began, "Do you know the J3.'s? " She was stopped before 6he got the name out with, " 1 know no B.'s except be-still and behare."