17 JUNE 1865, Page 2

_Le liressager du Midi announces that the Maritime Prefect of

Toulon has discovered a mode of blowing up men-of-war at a distance. The agent is electricity, and it is not necessary to touch the vessel. He actually blew up a vessel of thirty tons in the harbour so satisfactorily that practical men think he can blow up an iron-clad. The story seems a little vague, though one or two vessels have been blown up by torpedoes during the American war.