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Shot, shell, and fuses for the guns Captain Hal sted condemns en masse as " delicate and compli cated chemical and; mechanical compounds," and then proceeds as follows :—" At the second shot fired at tho Trusty on the 28th of Sept., 1859," (he being present), " the right rear man at the gun was blown down by explosion from the plug aperture of the breech, which, in that first gun, was at the side. He was picked up scorched, the hair of his face burnt off, and his sight temporarily injured." Now why cannot the simple truth be told, which is, that a man standing near the side aperture of the breech had his whiskers and serge frock singed ? The blowing down and picking up are dramatic ornaments which I shall charitably ascribe to the same decorative style of writing that " nearly killed" Capt. Hodson at Shoeburyness. I was a close observer of what took place, and Capt. Sir Wm. Wiseman and Capt. Hewlett, who were also present, and to whom I have applied, confirm the accuracy of my statement. For my part, I was as much alive as Capt. Halsted could be to the objection of this lateral escape of gas at the breech ; and I may inform Capt. Halsted that this very experimental gun, which he takes up again after two years to swell his condemnation of service guns, was the precursor of one in which all the defects of the original were removed, and whose extraordinary rapidity of firing was chronicled in your columns about a fortnight ago. Capt. Halsted, indeed, goes on to say that " to this day the 100-pounder delivers its rear explosion with the same force as then." This would, doubtless, have been so had I treated the case with his impa tience ; but, notwithstanding his assertion, I am en abled to say that by the use of cups or saucers, as he facetiously terms them, the escape of gas is com pletely arrested in these large guns. Recent experi ments at Shoeburyness have shown that pieces of white paper may be laid close up to the joint with out exhibiting any stain of powder smoke. It was while waiting the result of experiments on this subject that I was lately induced to apply to Sir G. Lewis to suspend, for a short time, the issue of the 100-pounder guns. Captain Halsted next states that, "in order to lift in the vent-piece of the naval 100-pounder, two men must stand upon the gun-carriage in so elevated a position as to be wholly exposed to rifle aim." This is not the case; by passing a staff through the rings of the vent-piece it is easily lifted by the men while standing on the level of the deck. I now arrive at his summary of " inherent de fects," which I shall very quickly dispose of. 1. He says, " the gun cannot be loaded at the muzzle." I might as reasonably object to a muzzle loading gun, that it cannot be loaded at the broach ; if, however, it be an object, which I do not concede, to have the alternative of loading at the muzzle, I need only rifle my breech-loader on my shunt system, and it becomes a muzzle-loader also. The gun which fired the other day 51 rounds at the rate of one in 26 seconds was a gun of that kind. 2. He says "the gun cannot be double shotted." There is not the least difficulty in using two flat ended shots; but why should this be done when a single percussion shell would be ten times more effective ? 3. He says the gun cannot throw an incendiary (Martin's) shell. Here he is utterly wrong, for even the lead-covered shell, to say nothing of the ribbed one, has been successfully fired with molten iron in both 40-pounders and 100-pounders; in fact, targets are at present being built for a continuance of the practice. 4. He alleges that the gun " cannot be used with reduced charges for fear cZ the effects of air space." If Capt. Halsted had attended the ricochet firing at Woolwich, he would have seen all sizes of my guns, from 40-pounders downwards, used with every variety of charge, from a few ounces up to the full service quantity. 5. He declares that " within certain limits of dis tance the gun cannot be used to cover either troops or boats with shot or shell, for fear of the lead which strips from all the projectiles, as proved on service in China, and as openly admitted by the author himself in May last." Really I thought that on the occasion to which Capt. Halsted so strangely re fers, I had succeeded in showing the hollowness and absurdity of this objection. I stated that the lead could be, and had been so absolutely fixed to the projectile as to render separation impossible. I pro duced specimens of shells, both exploded and entire, in proof of this. I showed that the military autho rities had had their choice whether the lead should be thus absolutely fixed, or be in some degree separ able, so as to produce more fragments on the burst ing of the shell. They have made their choice, and must be considered the best judges of what are the requirements of the service. If Captain Halsted can persuade them that they have chosen wrong, it is open to thom to modify their decision in any way they please ; but as they have been offered any de gree of adhesion, I do not see how I can be respon sible for their decision, though I believe they have decided rightly. I think I have now answered every point ad vanced in Captain Halsted's letter, and have only to direct the attention of your readers to the spirit in which that and other attacks on the gun have been written. It is singular to be placed in a position where not only facts are invented by ray assailants against me, but my own inventions are turned against me too. I find myself suddenly reproached with improvements. Finality is a word which ought to be unknown to practical science, and yet I am con demned to the prospect of seeing every future in vention I may make in the service of the country treated as a condemnation by myself of its pre cursors. It actually seems to be the object of some antagonists to prevent me from working at all. Captain Halsted himself does not write as a critic, but as a downright uncompromising opponent. He acknowledges no one advantage in my system. The lightness of the guns, their precision of fire, their length of range, the extraordinary power of the shell in its different forms, as shown against every variety of object, are all passed over in silence, while every appearance of failure (experimental or otherwise) is exaggerated and dressed up in highly coloured language, calculated to mislead the un informed. He oracularly pronounces " radical" or " inherent" the defects which he attributes to the gun ; yet he suggests no substitute for what he condemns, and offers no new idea to aid the solu tion of a problem in which all are i n terested. But there are some objections —by far the most loudly and persistently repeated—which come from more disingenuous assailants. Statements absolutely false, contradicted officially by Ministers In Parlia ment, and by myself, .as author of the gun, are adduced again and again, whenever the refutation is likely either not to have been seen or _to have been forgotten. For instance, despite the most authoritative denials, it is asserted and re-asserted that the guns failed in China, and that casualties occurred from the stripping of the lead. One paper, the Mechanics' Magazine—into whose motives for continual misrepresentation I do not trouble myself to inquire—on the let of March last actually pre sented its readers with an imaginary summary (pointed with marks of quotation) of a " confiden tial despatch" sent home by Major Hay, in which the gun was said to have been spoken of in con demnatory terms, to have been withdrawn from action at a critical moment, and to have occasioned casualties to our men. It further informed its readers—not for the first time—that the average cost of the guns was £2,000. Mr. Baring, Under- Secretary for War, gave a flat denial to all these statements from his place in Parliament on the 14th March last. "No casualties occurred" in China, and Major Hay's report was of a directly opposite na. ture. "The gun," says Major Hay, " was the adnn- I ratio of all." Mr. During further told the 13.01130 _s‘ll,l%'SPAPEit , ze „ 4 ,. .., -. , ~.,, ,ge ,-. tr, _,...„ -- k ......, ~,;... 0 1 , 4 P, -- - 14 ~,, ~ ( ~.,_,,A , ,,i _ ___, A -,1 'i ''' - ' 1614t - that tho prie6 of tha it Annstronp; guns was._ Y in spite of al! these rebuffs—in*iteg Lc Her bcrt'u declaration, founded on the China deepatches, that "we had the best gun iu the world"—in spite of the testimony to its efficiency and value given on every public occasion by the Commander-in Chief of the expedition —in spite of Major Hay's published letter to myself, which I subjoin,* the Nechanics' Magazine insinuated, and still insinuates, that the Government " supp resse d" th e t ru th ; that Major Hay's despatch had been written in the sense they had affirmed, and that Government in fluence was used to prevent China officers from speaking. In their number or the 18th ult. I find this strange statement, the disingenuousness of which is quite monstrous :—" Mr. Baring, the Under-Secretary for War, in his elaborate speech on the War Estimates,showed that each Armstrong gun had cost on an average £2,160, thus proving that we were sufficiently guarded in our state ments." I feel slow to impute animus to anybody far less to a journal which represents mechanicians, but I am compelled to speak strongly about mis statements so deliberate and so repeated. Fern such attacks as these I appeal to common sense. Vague and groundless insinuations, thrown out by random writers, who may, for anything I know, be unscrupulous as well as misinformed, should not be allowed to excite public alarm. It is said that there ought to be a Committee of Inquiry. I can have no objection,though no prinza facie case against the gun exists at all. But let it be remem bered that a Committee of Inquiry is, and always has been, sitting on my gun. The Committee ap pointed by Government to superintend and control all matters relating to ordnance have their atten- Lion continually devoted to it in every detail. All the facts I have mentioned above are known to them. Supposing then, that I were dishonest enough to wish to conceal anything from the pub. lie—supposing that two successive Governments, and their Ministers at War, were weak enough to have been throughout misled—surely no one in his senses will believe that this Ordnance Select Com mittee, and those many scientific officers who are engaged in daily practice and experiment with the gun, and who are bound to report to Government their experience of it, are so deluded and so infa tuated as to concur in foisting an inefficient weapon on the country.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, London, Nov. 25. W. G. ARMSTRONG. " 2, Coates-crescent, Edinburgh, 25th March, 1861. " Dear Sir William, —It was not my intention to have taken any notice of the article which appeared in the Mechanics' Magazine of the Ist of March, headed The Armstrong Gun,' it being so utterly at variance with the substance of my actual reports. " But my attention halving been called to an article in the Morning Post (22d March), copied from the Mechanics' Magazine of the previous week, commenting on the speech made by Mr. Baring when laying the Army Estimates be fore the house, in which the writer in the boldest way challenges the production of my report to substantiate, 1 imagine, his former statement, I am induced to write to you, in order that you may, should you deem it necessary, contradict in any way the statements contained in those articles. " The Armstrong guns in China rendered the most valu able service, being always in the most efficient and service able condition, although put to very severe tests. They were never withdrawn from action and their places sup plied by others ; on the contrary, the Armstrong guns were invariably the first to be ordered up when artillery was re quired. At Tongchow, on the 14th of August, and again on the 21st, at the capture of the Upper North Taku Fort, the Armstrong batteries were firing over the heads of our in fantry in advance, and the guns never ceased firing in con sequence of any casualty to our men—quite the reverse ; those guns continued firing while the infantry advanced to ' storm the enemy's works. It would have been most sur prising if slight alterations had not suggested themselves in both guns and ammunition, considering that they were being tried for the first time, and that they were most jealously watched by all. "In fact, from tho instructions I received before leaving England, it was my duty to point out the slightest defect. This I did, and I was glad to observe, in a recent visit to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, that these defects had all been remedied in a manner which experiments had proved to be most successful; and I now feel confident that the British Artillery have the first gun, with the most perfect ammunition, in the world.—l am, yours very faithfully, " R. J. HAY, Brevet-Major Royal Artillery, Late A ss i s tant-Adjutant-General, Royal Artill,,z, Forre. Mina. "Sir W. G. Armstrong, &c." FINANCIAL _REFORMS IN FRANCE. (From the Money Alarket Bccictc.) Scoff as we may at the play (if we choose to re gard it so) which has been enacted at Paris, the French Emperor has given his people a privilege which they have never yet possessed under the pre- sent regime, and which they never enjoyed in its entirety under the rule of the majority of its pre decessors—We mean the right of having the expen diture of the Government controlled by the Legis lature. We do not doubt that this part of the new Imperial programme will be carried out, and that the era of " supplemental credits" is at end. Now this is very important. As long as there were " supplemental credits," the whole proceeding of submitting the Budget to the Legislature was a mere farce. The Chambers, let us say, voted the Budget, perhaps with a few amendments of suffi cient importance to satisfy their amour propre. But the farcical part of the affair was that when the Budget was voted, it did not accomplish what a British Budget does, since it did not limit the expenditure of the Government in the least. At the point where the Budget ended, the Government expenditure was really only beginning. Each Minister applied not to the Legislature, but to the Emperor for a few millions more, and his Majesty gave a draft for the amount under his own Imperial decree. If the money was not in the Treasury, he could always issue more floating debt, or, where this plan failed, it was easy to raise a loan in the Rentes, and the precise manner in which the money was expended was never suffered to appear. This is the secret of the £40,000,000 deficit. The Legis lature was thus completely jockeyed out of all con trol over the finances, and the State machine rattled away at its own pace on the road to insolvency. Having made now a solemn promise to the French nation that the system of supplemental cre dits shall be abolished, and that the Government expenditure shall really pass in review before the Chambers, the Emperor cannot afford to go back from his word, or retrace his steps. He is too shrewd a politician to attempt to do so. We have a strong suspicion he has given a greater boon than he in tended. He means, perhaps, to strengthen his financial position by having his expenditure re gularised" by the vote of the Chambers, and he trusts that the influence of his Government will always be sufficient to secure an immense majority of his nominees in those halls. We doubt this. Hitherto, the Lower House has bad no power. Men of character and ability had, therefore, little temp tation to enter it. Constituencies, as a rule, were apathetic for the same reason. But this may now be altered. Have our readers reflected upon the importance of the functions discharged by an as sembly to which is delegated the task of controlling the finances of a nation? Is not money the sinews of war ? Is not the command enjoyed by our House of Commons over the national purse-strings the real source of all the control which it has over the policy of Government ? The Crown nominally makes peace and declares war, but its prerogative is merely nominal, for what can the Crown do unless the representatives of the people vote the needful supplies ? The French people have not yet arrived at this constitutional regime, but when, through their representatives, they possess them selves of even a partial control over the finances, they will acquire an influence over the general policy of the Empire such as the y never possessed before. We can look forward and imagine fiercer contests at future elections, an increasing phalanx of deputies pledged to reform the financial policy of the Government, to encour age peace and progress, and to oppose war and aggression on neighbouring in fact, public opinion States. We can imagine, e ntering into the Gouncils and moulding the policy of the French Government in a degree never known yet since Napoleon 111. seized the sceptre. We entertain a far from faint hope that, under the force of financial distress, the Emperor has, with ou t meaning to do so, virtually given his people a con stitutional Bill of Rights, such as it will hereafter require another coup d'etat to wrest from them. And be it remembered that, as Sovereigns advance in years, it is generally found that they beeerag indisposed to rail and Tentureaome mum THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1861. THE AR.II.ISTRaNG G U.NS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l ended a letter which I had the honour of addressing to you last month by declining further controversy on the subject of the new rystem of ordnance. My time is too much limited to permit of my involving myself needlessly in controversial warfare, and it is not reasonable to expect that I should continually have to defend my gun in the columns of the press, through all the stages of its progress and development, against incessant attacks by opponents usually ill-informed as to their facts. In the long run the best weapon must win the day, whether it be mine or another's, and I am as sure that my gun cannot be written up into success as I am that if successful it will never be written down. On reconsideration, however, I think it possible that my refusal to engage in controversy may have been misconstrued. The public are not in the same position as I am. They have not the means of know ing those broad facts which are known to Govern ment and myself, and they have a right to be anxious on a matter so intimately concerning public expenditure and national defenco. Before retiring from a discussion of the subject I will therefore let your readers know all that I can tell them on points lately raised, and they shall judge for themselves. A brief statement and a few statistics (which I trust will be to the purpose) will lead them to view with tranquillity the strange storms of criticism to which the gun finds itself so frequently subjected. I. First, as to the guns themselves. _ _ My shortest course will be to exhibit, in a tabu lated form, the number of my guns which have been proved and issued for use, the number which have been returned from service for repair; and a few other particulars, all of which I have obtained from official sources; I must crave the patience of your readers for this portion of my letter, which I fear will be too statistical for general interest. in the imagination of Capt. Halsted, Two casualties which happened on hoard the Excellent, and were at the time described as of this nature, were not in stances of vent-piece being blown out, but of the handles being blown off from neglect in screwing up the breech. The truth is that no vent-piece ever would have been blown away had the gunners known their drill from the first. The accidents aroso simply from the neglect of uninstructed gun- ners to drop the vent-piece fairly to the bottom of the slot. A wider knowledge of drill seems almost to have put an end to the occurrence, and, as an additional safeguard, all the vent-pieces lately made have been furnished with a alight projection, by which the mishap is rendered almost, if not altoge ther, impossible. I take next the vent-pieces registered above as unserviceable. I ,have already remarked that, the principle of steel having been definitively abandoned,, instances of injuries to steel are of minor importance. But even the number of steel failures entered by me above must be taken with much reservation. Six of the 12-pounder vent-pieces, for instance, under this head failed at Shoeburyness, where from 21 12- pounders 12,433 rounds have been fired. The other two are reported by the Marine Artillery, who have fired I don't know how many rounds. The three 25-pounder vent-pieces failed during experi ments. Of the nine steel 40-pounders, four went in some experiments on board the Trusty, to which I shall presently refer ; two others became unser viceable in the course of 2,001 rounds from 40- pounder guns at Shoeburyness ; ono more failed on board the Cambridge in the course of 1,003 rounds from 40-pounders ; one on board the " Cochin" gunboat, and the remaining one on board the Edgar flagship of the Channel Fleet during a number of rounds unknown to me. I have only - now to speak of the four steel 100-pounder vent-pieces. These all failed at Shoeburyness in the course of 1,172 rounds, but two of them yielded only to extra oharges of 181 b. of powder. As to the failures of the wrought-iron vent pieces. In the case of the 100-pounders they are limited to the single instance of a vent-piece slightly bulged, which had not been reported when I last addressed you. Beyond this we have but seven to account for. As I have above said, all these seven occurred to one class of gun, whose pattern of vent-piece will in consequence now be changed. But, what is more remarkable, all these seven (together with the four vent-pieces mentioned above) failed on board the Trusty in the course of a single experiment from Captain Cole's cupola shield, during only 142 rounds from only two guns. The gun in which eight of the 11 vent-pieces thus failed was brought to Woolwich for investization. It there exhibited none of the destructive qualities it had shown on board the Trusty, but was fired 58 rounds with the same pattern vent-piece as before, yet could make no impression on it. Failures so singularly localized can only have arisen from some special cause. At the same time the strengthened pattern will meet even such contingencies as these. It only remains for me to add two more casualties, which, as they happened during an experiment at Woolwich, by the Ordnance Select Committee, for testing a carriage, are not included in the report. On that occasion one steel 40 pounder vent-piece was broken, and one of wrought iron cracked. During the same experiment the copper ring of two vent-pieces became loosened—an injury quickly remedied by pressing on a new one, and having nothing to do with the strength of the vent-piece. No other failure has occurred to the service pat terns, even during experimental practice. . . The above statistics are taken from official reports before me, from the Ilorseguards and Admiralty, dated respectively 1.140 7th inzt- Ars ex tracts as to broken or injured vent-pieces would, however, be incomplete if I did not carry my infor mation further. No failure of this kind has ever taken place at any artillery station except Shoebury ness. None is reported from Shorncliffe, where there is constant practice, nor from any of our 36 batteries of field artillery at home or abroad. None has occurred in Now Zealand. None happened in China during 3,800 rounds. None in the Channel Fleet, in all the rounds they must have fired, ex cept one steel 40-pounder vent-piece on board the Edgar. None on board the Excellent gunnery ship and her tender, in 2,455 rounds. None on board the Cambridge gunnery ship and her tender, except one steel 40-pounder, in 3,523 rounds. These facts speak for themselves. Casualties to some extent necessarily attend a new system on its introduction, and their number will naturally every day grow less. The above account, which takes in a period of nearly three years, is drawn from authoritative re ports framed by Government servants, and I have added all that my own knowledge supplies. Rare as have been the cases in which the success of the gun has not been complete, I take more pleasure still in the fact that a new system of rifled artillery, with its new projectiles, fuses, and accessories, has been introduced, and so far perfected, without loss of either life or limb, or even injury to a single in dividual. The truth is, that the guns are of unpre cedented strength. Your readers will be interested in an account of some official tests of endurance to which one 100-pounder, two 40-pounders, and two 12-pounders not long ago were submitted. The facts have been in some measure made public, but will, I think, bear repetition. The 100 pounder (weighing only 8t cwt.) was fired 100 consecutive rounds with the full service charge of 141 b. The projectile for the first ten rounds was of 1001 b, weight, and was increased by 100 lb. every ten rounds after ; so that from the 90th to the 100th round it weighed 1,0001 b., and pro jected two feet from the muzzle. The gun, after sustaining this extraordinary test without injury, might have been merely passed into the service, but was taken for the severe duty of proving vent-pieces, and daily endures a repetition of full-proof or double service charges of 281 b. The two 40 pounders (weighing 32cwt. each) were loaded with full service charges of 51b., and fired, like the 100-pounder, for 100 consecutive rounds. In the first instance the projectile was 401 b., and it increased in the same manner every ten rounds up to 4001 b. Both guns remained uninjured; and at the close of the experiment it was determined to try one of them still further. It was fired for 30 more consecutive sounds, but this time with double charges of 101 b. The projectile ranged as before between 401 b. and 4001 b., every third round receiv- These two guns, and are still, for i la n ilk g l el a t n khne a o d fwo d r i :n t i i n o e n rr a oe l ng 4 eu o ,l a l a b ieu i us n en. w i n e j i u g r h e t a . , The two 12-pounders have nearly the same story to tell. I will not, therefore, weary you with the details at length. Both withstood the hundred consecutive rounds, with proportionately increasing projectiles and full-service charges of 111 b. Both were submitted to the double proof charges of 30 rounds more. One remained perfectly serviceable and sound, the other failed near the muzzle, after the sixth increase in weight of the projectile—that is to say, after throwing a cylinder of 841 b. with double the service charge. But I must observe that in choosing these two 12-pounders for this ordeal, one was purposely selected which had actually been rejected at proof as defective; and it was this de fective one which finally succumbed to the treat ment I have described. But, after all, special examples of endurance are hardly of more value than the general experience gained in ordinary use. I select from the list be fore me some returns o f the number of rounds fired by individual guns which are still in con stant practice. Of heavy guns, I see that one 40-pounder has fired 721 rounds, another 671. Of the 12-pounders, one has fired 1,720 rounds, another 1,832, another 2,817 rounds. Even my original experimental 18-pounder gun, submitted to the querpment in the year 107 1 hae fired between 2,000 and 3,000 rounds, and is still in perfect condition. Nor need I remind the public that this ordnance has been tried against every kind of object, comprising ships, forts, earth works, mai tello towers, and targets representing bodies of troops, with an effect never attained by any other system. Its complete success in China was recorded by your own correspondent, and authoritatively pronounced by Ministers in Parliament. Add to this that the experience of the gun has been of a very complicated kind. Ido not know whether your readers are aware that I had to introduce with the gun an entire new system of fuses and projectiles :- 1. A time fuse, which burns during flight, and which can be set so as to explode the shell at any given number of yards, or, as case shot, at the gun's mouth. 2. A percussion fuse, which is incapable in its original state of exploding the shell, though dropped from a great height, but which acquires by the act of firing so delicate a sensibility that it explodes the shell thenceforward at the lightest touch. 3. The sea-service percussion fuse, which, like the last-mentioned, has no sensibility before it is fired, never has sufficient sensibility to explode the shell by impact on the water or by ricochet, but takes effect on a ship's side, whether it strike it point foremost er otherwise, and bursts the shell in the very act of passing through the timber. 4. The solid shot for battering, the common shell for explosive effect, and the segment shell for use against troops or the crews of ships,—three pro jectiles, the destructive power of two of which is on a scale hitherto unknown. Each of my field-service projectiles contains the first and second of these fuses. A slight adjustment only is required, at the very moment of loading, to determine whether it shall act as solid shot, shrap nell shell, case shot, or percussion shell. Each bat tery of field artillery under this system goes into action not merely with a gun of less weight than formerly, and using half the weight of powder, but, what is more important, carrying many kinds of shot in one. Surely then I have a right to say that our experience of the gun, in all its varieties of size and with all its accessories, ranges over a field so wide that greater hindrances and more mischances might reasonably have been looked for than have actually occurred ? After the ample statistics I have given I might close my letter here, but I will first shortly notice some specific strictures on my guns which have lately appeared in the public newspapers, and as I prefer an opponent, however uncompromising, who has the manliness to avow his name, Capt, Halsted shall have the precedence. Captain Halsted commences a letter which lately appeared in your columns by instancing four large guns which, he says, successively broke down after a very few rounds ; and he impugns generally the safety and endurance of the guns made upon my principle. I might oppose to such a conclusion the clear proofs to the contrary which I have given above, but I will meet his examples more closely still. He re fers in the first place to an 80-pounder gun, thefirst heavy gun I made, and only an experimental one. de says it was used against the Trusty in 1859, and had a defect in the interior. I answer, that it had no defect whiCh in the slightest degree affected either its safety or efficiency. The slight flaw of which Capt. Halsted speaks was readily cut out without damaging the gun. It was one of the four guns sub. sequently used against the martello tower at East bourne, and has been employed on various occasions since. His three remaining examples are 100-pounders which ho asserts were successively disabled on board the Stork gunboat and condemned as " dangerously e," after• firing an insignificant number of rounds. I reply that two of these 100 pounder guns were returned, not as condemned, but only for exa mination and report. After such examination they were declared fit for use, and one of them was sent to Shoeburyness for continued firing. It there fired 363 rounds, and was then forwarded to Woolwich, where to remove all doubt of its safety it was proved a second time, and then returned to Shoeburyness for general use. Capt. Halsted, who admits the fact of the gun being subsequently used at Shoe buryness, qualifies the admission by saying that it was there only considered as capable of cautious use. So far from this being the case, it was indis criminately employed for firing shot of 2001 b. weight against experimental iron targets. The second 100-pounder, which was precisely in the same condition as the former, and the character of which might have been re-established in the same way, underwent a different treatment. Advantage was taken of the existence of the flaw to test the efficacy of a brass lining introduced into the powder chamber, after which the gun fired 50 rounds with extra charges of 181 b., and remains perfectly ser viceable. I feel it necessary hero to remark that from the novelty of these guns they were naturally and very properly regarded in the first instance with a degree of suspicion approaching to timidity, and the slightest indication of flaw became an ob ject of apprehension. Capt. Hewlett, the com manding officer of the Excellent gunnery ship, to which the Stork is attached, in a letter which I have recently received, says that he had known the guns at first as well as he does now, he would not have deemed it necessary to change the couple of guns last mentioned. Ho adds, "We knew very little about the guns at first, and were startled at the slightest appearance of flaw." The third 100- pounder referred to by Capt. Halsted is still on board the Stork. It has been ordered to Woolwich for examination, but until it has arrived and been tested I shall not suppose it to be a solitary in stance of dangerous defect,;but take it on trust that its flaw will prove as little important as those of the other two. But there is yet a very important remark to make on these guns. The fact is that the particular 100- pounders referred to by Capt. Halsted are part of a batch of guns which were not made purely on my principle. Before the difficulties of manufacture of the heavy guns were fully mastered, and during the first pressure of the demand for them, I was com pelled for a time to make the inner tube—contrary to my principle—from a solid forging, instead of from coiled iron, and the result has proved the in feriority of the plan. But this circumstance, instead of being an argument against my mode of construc tion, only proves its superiority over the alternative system of making wrought-iron guns out of solid blocks of that material. The manufacturing diffi culties, I am happy to say, have been for some time past overcome ; and all the more recent guns being on the coil principle throughout, are not liable to those defects which in the instances named have excited suspicion. Captain Halsted asserts, that " up to the present time the 100-pounder gun has never been subjected to any representation of real action by 50 consecu tive rounds of rapid fire." This is incorrect. All descriptions of my guns have been fired 50 rounds at a time continuously, with various degrees of rapidity. Capt. Halsted next remarks on the liability of the guns "to choke up their shallow grooves with the lead covering of their missiles." Ho is quite wrong in supposing that in any case the grooves become choked with lead. He would have been justified in saying that in cases where the guns are neither sponged nor properly lubricated the grooves will be come clogged with a deposit from the powder. But this never happens when an efficient lubricator is used, such as that recently produced by Col. Boxer. With that lubricator 50 rounds at a time have been repeatedly fixed without any sponging, and the gun has remained as clear in the grooves at the end of the experiment as at the first round. With regard to the failure of the vent-pieces on board the Trusty, which, of course, forms a promi nent part of Ce.pt. Halsted's remarks, I refer to the detailed partly wars which are given in the early GUNS. tl rti ta i :, 1.",=1 .3 t • ti 7,1 t 3 . Calibre of ."' . . 0 o Sap .0 - 7, 4al pi 4 4 ., 12 c 4 Gun. EC.. Ea. E,.., w ..,,44 c..,...cp 02 0 12 -",2.. - 0 ,-.9p . : 1',.. 4 4. 9, zal '..9,1 k - . ...s. _',PP A. g 14,G34:1 g ----- 6 pounder 49 44 5 0 0 12 pounder 464 152 312 0 14 120 25 pounder 325 253 72 0 0 195 40 pounder 221 48 173 0 2 285 100 pounder 563 329 231 0 4 050 T0ta1.... 1,622 826 796 0 20 * The Government being guaranteed against injuries at proof. The above table extends over the whole period that has elapsed since the adoption of the gun, and I proceed to make some comment on it. I will, however, first speak of a gun said to have burst, though bursting is not the proper term to give to the fate which befell it. It had been used for drill the night before, and left by mistake with the drill or practice shot still in the muzzle. On the next day the gun was loaded at the breech, and fired in ignorance of the oversight, when the muzzle, as a necessary consequence, was blown off at the point where the practice shot rested. Both shots were recovered, bruised and fractured by the colli sion, showing plainly how the fragments of the one had acted as wedges to jam the other. These cir cumstances were notorious at Shoeburyness, where the accident happened, and it is remarkable that the occurrence should have transpired in the Me chanics's Magazine shorn of its explanation. As the muzzle of any gun that human ingenuity ever invented would have been blown off under similar circumstances, I think I may fairly conclude that the 40-pounder lost its muzzle without losing its honour. I pass to the guns entered in the table as returned ,o Woolwich for repair. The number is taken from a full official report dated the 20th inst., and now before me. I see by it that the guns hero entered as returned for repair were not all of thew guns that required it. One 100 pounder, for instance, was returned for repair, but needed and underwent none. Six of the 12-pounders were China guns, and they were condemned to receive :rebrowning, cleaning, and three new drip-pans ! One 40-pounder gun required only cutting or facing of the screw, and so forth. In fact, three, or, at the very utmost four only of the guns were in such a state as would have prevented their continued use in action, and one of these was in that condition from having had its screw injured in an experiment by the Ordnance Select Committee to try the effect of firing the gun without closing the breech. A 25-pounder, injured at Shoeburyness, is not included in this list, as it has not yet appeared at Woolwich. This gun was well known to have a cross flaw within six inches of the muzzle, and it was a question whether it should bo fired in that condition; but since no accident worse than that which happened could be anticipated, it was taken for an experiment at Shoeburyness by the Ordnance Select Committee. At the third round the six inches of muzzle fell off, but the practice was not stopped, and as the gun shoots as well as ever the committee have retained it for other experiments. 11. I now come to the statistics regarding the vent-pieces. Before entering on this branch of my subject I may remark generally that the vent-piece is not expected to have the same durability as the gun. It is separate from the gun, and contains the vent or touch-hole, which is the most perishable part of all ordnance. Every time the weapon is loaded the vent-piece is removed; two of them are attached to each gun, and if one is injared by casualty or wear of the vent the other is ready to replace it. A list of injured vent-pieces is, therefore, not a list of accidents. The list below comprises not merely broken vent-pieces—indeed, a wrought-iron vent piece has never yet been known to break—it is made up of vent-pieces worn in long and honourable service, as well as of those broken, bulged, cracked, flawed, or rendered unserviceable in any other way. At the same time I can afford to confess that I have had some difficulty in determining the material and pattern of the vent-pieces for my larger guns. I too hastily deferred to the general preference for steel over iron, and have since learnt, by vexatious expe rience, the uncertainty and unfitness of that metal, as now manufactured, for purposes of the kind. It will be seen by the table below that tho injuries there entered have chiefly occurred to steel. Where otherwise, they have been confined, with one ex ception, to the 40-pounder; a proof that the fault was one of pattern and not of principle. 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We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, It iS pal coming put cf it Twkioli 13Atli."—Eira, Oct, 13,1881. A few ret which, like tarks are necessary as to this table, he former, extends over the whole existence of the gun in the service. First, as to the vent-pieces " blown away." I have taken their number from the official re port ordered by the Director of Ordnance, and dated the 14th inst. The report itself concludes as fol lows :—" There may be more" (i.e., cases of vent pieces blown away), " but as they always arise from carelessness, the facts may not have been noted." Some few other cases, indeed, as I myself know, have occurred —chiefly during practice by recruits. From the reason above suggested, they seem never to have been forwarded to she Government, and - I have not included them in the list. The two 12-pounder vent-pieces entered above are those reported to have been blown away in China on August 11 and September 2,1860 The number ha been (labia Octavo, 155., !THE EMOTIONS AND THE WILL. By --I- ALEXANDER BAIN, m.A., Examiner in Logic and Moral Philosophy in the University of London, and Profes sor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. By the smile Author, Octavo, 1557 THE SENSES AND THE INTELLECT. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. BENTLEY'S The DECEMBER NUMI I. The Discount Rate of the Bank of France. 11. Crooked Usage ; or, The Adventures of Lorn Lo riot. ByDudley Costello. Chapters X.XXIV. t, XXX VI. 111. The German Almanacks for IBer2. IV. The French Silk Trade. By Frederick Marshall. V. The American Athens. isy J. G. Rohl. In the January Number wit Story. entitled THE LORD City Life in the Last Century. worth. MISCELLANY. ;ER (Now Ready) contains VI. The Worries of a Cha- pc rone ; or Lady Mara bout's Troubles. By Oujda. Part 111. VII. 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The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex - perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co.. Paternoster-row. The Fourth Edition, Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, price se. by post free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors In relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medical reader. 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