The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1864.

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which took the gloomy side, would also, to a certain extent,
be false; that was to say, there was good and evil mingled
in the world. But though neither one view or the other is
perfectly true, when they camo to the kind of practical
truth with which they had to deal, then he said the favour-
able view of society and of :nan's nature was the view which
helped them most in practice, and it, and not the other,
had truth on its side, Depend upon it, they were able if
they would to draw out much that was good from those
around them, much that was good in their own minds, and
there was nothing so sure to crush, and dwarf, and wither
them, as the belief that nothing good would come, and that
they could achieve nothing gcod for themselves and see
nothing good springing up around them. It was from the
opposite spirit that institutions like this arose, H-1 took
it that the duty of every one of them was to consider his
own mind, to regard it as a great trust given him by
God. There was no greater mistake for a man to make than
to say, "My education is finished." It was never finished.
They were being taught by every day, by every book they
read, even though they did not agree with it; taught by
every social influence brought to bear upon them, and by
every opportunity of good when they made use of it. Their
education never ended, and therefore when an institute like
that prepared for its members a large amount of intellectual
food and recreation it did well. It was pointing out to its
members the duty of cultivating themselves to the highest,
It provided the proper means of cultivation, and thereby
kept reminding them to make a practical use of those powers
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the noxious poison it kept out, they were doing good to the
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of the gun's crew, and a fouling in the wedge
grooves. Changing the man's number at the gun
and washing out the grooves at once remedied the
defect, and caused the gun to work with its former
freedom.

Tho firing results with the GS-pounder smooth.
bore and the three rifled guns yesterday was as

'ollows :

Eight-inch (65 cwt.) smooth-bore gun, indepen►
dent firing, 1,800 yards range, 101 b charge of powder,
hollow shot ; number of rounds fired, 20; time occu-
pied in firing, 14 min. 4 sec. Quick firing—Number
of rounds fired, 20; time occupied in firing. 9 min.
5 secs.

Whitworth rifled 70-pounder gun, rear-vent, in..
dependent firing, 2,600 yards range, 101 b charge of
powder ; number of rounds fired, 12; time occupied
in firing, 8 min.

Wedge Armstrong rifle gun, independent firing,
2,600 yards range, 91b charge of powder; number of
rounds fired, 12 ; time occupied in firing, 6 min.
45 sec.

Armstrong shunt rifled gun, independent firing,
2,600 yards range, 101 b charge of powder ; number
of rounds fired, 12 ; time in firing, 9 min. 56 sec.
The shunt and wedge Armstrong guns the men
of the Excellent have been for some time aeons,.
toured to. Mr Whitworth's gun with its rear vent
was a perfect stranger to them, and the first three
or four rounds were fired in consequence more
slowly than they would have been had the men
fired previously from the gun, however short the
number of rounds might have been, and as a proof
of this there was a very marked decrease in the
time between each gun during the last six rounds
of the 12 fired.