The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

trinu aith Xalm.

On Weslneaday aft moon there was a brigade field-slay
of the whole of the trnoim iii w sitiarteisal at Chatham
garrison. The three battalions of infantry, comprising
the slepist companies of IS of tin India regiments. with
the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry and the
Royal Engineers, 111,,1111,1u0i oh tb ir retectice parade•
grout's!» at 2 o'clock and wet, marched to tin
headed by their bands. I /is Major G•sneral Eyre. the
cumin:unbolt of the garrison, Attended by hiss staff, •r
-
riving 4/11 OW ground, he sAS rteCiV VI with A guilt rid
salute ; after which the troops, who numbered nearly
:OW Inch of all ranks, marched past ius slow and quick
time, awl wige lint through a variety if brigade
iusove-
usuousta by I:eiseral Eyre, the variilu, 111:111103111,1141 lasing
executed with great precision and stk.:Wines:. .Ifter the
officers and troops hail been exerciswd in military Illove•
ttienb4 for about two hours they were marched back to
their respective quarter's.

Cittitt.ui, Friday, Feb. 2A. Mr, Warry, the
armorer sergeant of the ltril &pia battalion of Chatham,
having stioneeded iii innk nig one of hie heeei..h.fionling Call
nons on a 11111C11 larger scale than that formerly brought
under the lattice 44 the AlltilOritit.a. A trial of the new
gun took place at Brompton IlarrackA yesterday 11101114
Mg for the purpose of subjecting the new intention to A I
Weer.. teat. The length of this breeelnloading cannon is
Winches over all, soil 14 inches from the breech to the
muzzle. Its weight is 1111 c, exclusive •if the carriage, '
the gun itself being it brass, and, together with the
meelianistsi at the breech, of beautiful workmanship.
With this czmion ten rounds can be tired per minute,
being Ita fast as two 1114411 can load and tire it. The balls
Used testerilay were the ordinary Enfield rifle bullets
and Captain Norton's paprecoated conical hralte, the
latter presenting many improvements over other ride
mullets. With this cannon 10 balls per initiate
Can be fired at an object At A dIntIIIICC Of 2,0110
yards with the greatest accuracy of aim, as was
fully del !!!!! nitrated in the tiring which took place
yesterday. l'he most valuable improvement in this
breech loading CAIIIIOII la, that the firing takes place by
percuasion, each gun being fitted for a percussion cap,
whereas in the breecli•loscling grin intuited by Captain
Armstrong the charge is fired in the run fashioned
manner adopted in firing ordinary cannon, and, where
Captain Armstrong's gun fires about one round per
minute, Mr. Warry's breech-loading gun has tired ten
rimmls per minute, which rate of firing can be main-
tained AA long as the ammunition lasts. By a simple
contrivance, which has been invented by Mr. IVarry
since the last experiments were niaile, the cartridge is
cut, the nipple pinned, and the breech closed, all by ono i
motion of • small lever placed rn the left hand side 4,1
the gull, so that it is almost impossible for the gun to
miss fire. After the most rapid firing the interior of
the gun is always found to be perfectly cool, the open-
ing at the breech admitting a current if air immediately
each charge ic inserted. It is int-elided to apply Mr.
Warry's prineipli• to an ordinary 32-pounder 10111 on
b 'aril ship, when it rCIIIIiIIa to be seen whether the in-
'tuition will be found to answer as satisfactorily in the
, case of large guns as it does in the smaller kind of
cannon.

Amu v M MU EN. --The (oiuinandcr-iui.chief recently
issued a general order directing that prises should be
given for good shouting in the army. The results have
been published. At the bead of the list stands the Sid.
ingliam militia—first in all testis except that of marks-
men, where the 2nd battalion of the Scots Fusilier (lusinls
excel them by one. The Rifle Brigade is third, the 22nd
s.lth, With and 11th regiments occupy the neat places.
'fence it follows that a militia regiment fires best by
battalion and by companies, and only contains fewer
lin.t.rate inaksmen by one, than the Scots Fusiliers
that four hue regiments are superior in all respects
baths Guards, except the Scots Fusilier second battalion.