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sExTIRGuisHADLE FIRg.-During lIIe last session of Congress, an appFopriation was made to enable Mr Uriah Brown to test the merits of liquid fire of which he is inc inventor, designed as an instrument oi war. Mir Brown IS now in the city, making the necessary arrangements for trial before the ordnance and other offices of the Gov ernment- We know nothing of the article further than the Hon. Jacob Thompson said in the H. of Representatives, that il was something like the Greek fire. History in- iofms us that the Greek fire was made prin- cipally ol napsha. ar liquid bilumen, mixed with sulphur and pitch, extracted from green hrs. Water, instead of extinguising, quick sned this powerful ageut of desnuciion. Is could be damped only by sand, wine or yine- gar. is vas period of four hundred years before the secret of its composition was ob- iained from the Greeks. The Mahometans at length discovered and sto;e il. IL eoniin- ued to be used in war down to the middle ef the fourteenth century, when gunpowtler was introduced. As to the applicability of Mr Browns invention, we have only to say that our present means of deslruetion are ample m Mexico, as the victories of our troops heve demonstrated His liquid fire, we think, would be more efficient in the con- hagraiion Of vessels than of cities.

 Wash. Cor. Ball. CIipDer.