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gun can do, and nothing more. The studs, however, are
in most oases torn away by the increased pitch of the rifling
towards the muzzle—a most serious fault, as the pieces,
flying like shrapnel, would make it dangerous to use the
gun over the heads of troops, to say nothing of the impos-
sibility of using same ammunition twice over, Never, we
believe, during the whole time the Armstrong shunt gun
has been in use have any of its studs become detached from
the shot in firing or atter firing; in fact, during one stage
of the competition with Mr Whitworth, Sir William fired
many rounds with shot that were used for the third time,
and with the moat perfect success as regards range and
accuracy. Commander Scott's gun has also given, so far
as it has gone, a very good average result, but there is no
question that Mr Lancaster's gun is distancing all its com-
petitors, and is doing as well ae,
if not better than, either
Sir William or Mr Whitworth as regards range and accu••
racy. At all the elevations up to which this gun has yet
been tried he has been ahead of other competitors in initial
velocity and in range, while in accuracy the shooting has
been really astonishing, It is impossible to give the official
result of this last week's trial for a day or two, but the re-
sumption of trials to-day is looked forward to at Shoebury
with the interest natural to artillerists who find that at the
eleventh hour a coippetitor has arisen against whom both
Sir William and Mr Whitworth will have to work hard to
hold their own. Mr Lancaster's gun would perhaps ere
this have been pronounced perfect by the judges but for
one serious drawback in its efficiency—the difficult nearly
always experienced in getting its shot home. This hitch
has occurred with more or less obstinacy almost every time
the gun has been loaded, and of course unless such a defect
can be shown to be removable, the gun, no matter what its
accuracy, would be all but useless for service, All these
guns will be severely tested by the Special Committee, as
the following progrsmmo sufficiently shows :
" 1. The committee will ascertain the initial velocity due
to the following charges in each gun employing lubricators :
five rounds, 121 b ; five rounds, 201 b; five rounds, 251 b,
Repeat the same without lubricators, but with a gummet
wad placed between cartridge and shot, observing in both
cases the recoil on a wet platform without compressor, ob-
serving the slope very carefully.
" 2. The guns will be mounted on garrison sliding car-
riages on traversing platforms, and fired down the range,
with charge 251 b, without wad behind the shot, but with
the service lubricator and felt wad. One preliminary round
each, solid shot, at 2 deg, do 5 deg, do 10 deg.
" 3. Fire 10 rounds at 2 deg elevation, by spirit level, from
each gun, at marks at the same distance apart as the guns.
Each gun to be laid directly on the mark, with no allowances
for wind or deflection.
" 4. Repeat at 5 deg.
" 5. Repeat at 10 deg.
4t 7,8, 9. Repeat the practice at 2 deg, 5 deg, 10 deg, as
before with 201 b charge, firing one preliminary trial shot
from each gun at each elevation.
" 10. The bores and vents to be examined,
" 11, 12, and 13. Repeat the pract ce at 2 deg, 5 deg, 10
deg, with either 201 b or 251 b, to compare with previous
practice in respect to uniformity of range, Bores and vents
to be again examined.
" 14. The remaining nine rounds per gun lof the first
supply of solid shot (130) will be fired with such charge and
charge
elevation as the committee may direct with or without wads.
y "15.
200 T raeniplersojteoctbielefisroed of thew tfirst
251 b supply
at 10 deg.
16. Fifty shots of the second supply will be flied for
the further test of the facility of loading, wear of the
grooves, effect of fouling on the loading and shooting, and
endurance of the guns with either 261 b or 201 b charges.
Each gun will be separately tested.
" 17 Bore to be examined.
" 18. Each gun will then fire 50 rounds spherical cast-
iron shot of mean guage 6.90 plus or minus •02, with
charge 151 b, to ascertain how far the several systems of
grooving can stand the use of round shot, and how far they
i l which have tra-
velled
favour accurate shooting.
" 19. Bore to be examined.
" 20. The remaining .50 shots of the second supply to be
then fired with either 201 b or 151 b, as before.
" 21. Bore to be examined.
" 22. The committee reserve to themselves full latitude
in the use of th,s second 100 rounds to fire them in such a
way as to bring out the strong or weak points of any one
of the systems in such a manner as they judge best calcu-
lated to answer the purpose of this inquiry—viz., which of
these five systems of projectiles and four systems of rifling
is to be preferrred, and to determine whether any one of
them is to be recommened for further trial or adoption.
" 23. The trial of still silot or shells against iron de-
fences and of castiron common and segment shells will be
confined to the gun preferred as a shot gun."
Among otners a must important experment was tried
last week at Shoebury with the Armstrong 600-pounder
shunt, to ascertain what its effect would be at about 4,000
yards range. Of course it was not possible to ascertain
this on a range actually of that length, as the Govern
ment have on land greater than 800 yards, arid it would
be impossible to erect a target in the sands so far
out to sea. The experiment was, nevertheless, just
as conclusively made by a calculation of initial velocities.
The initial velocity or speed at which the 600 pounder moves
has been taken by Narvaez's electric apparatus at ranges
from 200 up to 1,500 yards, and with these two numbers it
was easy to find the third—namely, what its speed would
heat 4,000 yards, which was found to be at the rate of 860 ft
per second. The next thing to be ascertained was the charge
of powder which would drive it from the gun at this velocity;
and this being found to be 401 b, it was at once easy to make
experiments at 200 yards, which would give precisely the
same results as to destructive effects that would be got at
4,000. The gun, therefore, was loaded with a 401 b charge
and a steel shot weighing 6031 b. This was fired against a
very celebrated target at Shoebury, called the " box target,"
and one of the strongest, if not the very strongest, ever
constructed. It is faced outside with one of John Brown
and Co's admirable 6} inch armour plates. Behind this,
strengthened with horizontal stling,ers of wrought iron, are
18 inches of teak, and behind this, again, a double skin of
iron, lUn thickness, the whole being backed by iron ribs
22ia by 10in, As the resistance of armour plates increase
as the square of the additional thickness, this target is
literally more than twice as strong as the Warrior broad-
side. The 600 pounder, as we have said, was fired against
this with a 401 h charge. The shot left the gun at a speed
of 860 ft per second, and struck at a velocity of 840, crashing
through both plate and backing. The point of impact was,
unfortunately for the shot, just where the target was
strongest from the support of nearly 3ft of solid pine beams,
which form the box sides. Yet armour plate and baeking
were both crashed through, a perfect shower of pieces of
the armour
and splinters, or little beams rather, being cast
far and wi▪ de in all directions. Nothing could be more
conclusive than this proof that, according to both theory
and practic• e, the Armstrong 600 pounder is capable
of smashing through the strongest seagoing armourclad
that could be got
.to float at a distance of 4,000 yards,
or more. There is no reason to doubt that the same
result would have been effected if the shot had been fired at
500, or even 600 yards, instead of 200—increase of range
which, according to the calculated scale we have described,
would have represented an actual distance of all but three
miles. The experiment, therefore, was satisfactory in this
result, and still more satisfactory in another, the War.office
having now determined to try the 600-pounder regularly
with its full charges of powder and shot up to 14 degs. of
elevation, which is the highest that can be got with its pre•
sent carriage. The gun has, therefore, with the greatest
difficulty (for everything connected with the transport of
heavy ordnance is of the roughest and most primitive kind
at Shoebury), been placed on the bank overlooking the sea,
and the experiments will be continued with it to-day and
to-morrow, till we shall at last know something of the piece,
good or bad. It has been n.e.arly
twoyears at Shoebury, but
incredible as it May seem, it has never been tested properly

yet.
o world.o -but many rifled 600-Penn"
d
to Shoebury it was the
IGpaeorolrugvVsne:hsdratneennrmrdsifl:etneawhdbtehsogauh6nttaOuivOtshipoesgotvtoiuniat l n,alduve: otr
of canl:orse one,
It is so no longer. Many
, they have numbers of 300-
which
there is no second opi-
nEivoneninthaen
any
part
Preparation and general un-
readiness we sometimes lookdown upon with so much self. i
complacency, have not failed to provide themselves with
some of Sir William's 300-pounder shunt-guns, while we
not only have none of this kind yet in the service, but we
believe almost none
manufactured
Danes,
whose the
want world
of
Where they have been used.
, except those now lying
idle in front of the targets where they have been used only
to demonstrate their value to other countries. The Ameri-
cans have now literally hundreds of 600-pounders, and have
just succeeded in casting at Pittsbttrg a 20-inch gun to throw
a spherical shot of 1,6001 b. To be sure, all these guns are
n weak
Powder in low charges, but
shows that the Americans
smoothothere not boresaltogether
experimentfi rewith
od f
la swrot
wgee k
low velocities.
end th o l;600 hein trusting to heavy shot at
that could be expected
spoken of out of its gun
which would not at close range be sure to tell with almost
sinking effect on the, very best of our ironclads. In Sir
William's large shunt guns, however, we have ordnance
which are strong enough to be equal to thehighest charges,
and a capable of throwing 150 or 300 pounder shot to a
Tlbsrhe
et is
we have no charge
range and with an accuracy which no other gun claims to
effect but Mr Whitworth's 150 pounder; for Mr Whit-
worth has not yet brought forward a 300 pounder.
If there could be only a competitive trial with Sir
William's 150 pounder and Mr Whitworth's against
aococouwr aacyy ,
or , a result would be gained
armour plates and with shot and shell for range,
"otdhedresotnrutchteivfienneaslisty of which, as far as these
ordnance are concerned, the public might depend. At the
same time it is in a manner unfair to Mr Whitworth to
proceed to try Sir William's shunt guns of large calibre
without inviting him to supply 150 or 300-pounders, it he
can do so, to be tried as soon as possible afterwards.

THE WIMBLEDON MEETING,

On Saturday there was another bright sunny day,
well adapted for showing off the camp to the visitors,
who came down in vast numbers, but, if anything,
rather too bright for successful shooting, so that in
competitions where the time of firing was optional
many of the wariest riflemen hnld back till the
cooler hours of the afternoon, familiarly known to
anglers as " the killing time." The tedious, but in-
•teresting process of shooting off the ties for the first
stage of the Queen's Prize occupied some hours, and
when the previous day's list of 114 had been reduced
to the 100, who gain prizes this year, instead of 60,
as formerly, it was found that the Metropolitan
Volunteers, although distanced and outnumbered by
those from country districts, were still creditably
represented. No less than three members of the Ist
City of London won their way into the first detach-
ment, composed of the 30 most successful shots
among the 2,128 competitors ; and the same fore•
most class likewise includes the names of Captain
Field, of the Hon. Artillery Company and Private
Vignoles, of the 38th Middlesex (Artists'). The
list, as ultimately settled, was as follows :•
QUEEN'S PRIZE—FIRST STAGE.
List of Winners in Order of Merit.
Winners of Silver Medal, 30 Whitworth Rifles, 30 Prizes of
£5 each, and 30 Badges, N.R.A.
Points. Points.
Private Ilaward, let Serg. Jenks, Ist Shrop -
folk (winner of silver shire .. .. 43
medal) .. 47 Priv. Rhead, 3d Glouces-
Private J. Edwards, 4th ter Artillery .. 43
Kent .. 47 Ensign Lloyd, Ist Devon 43
Priv. Lane, Ist Gloucester 47 Priv. Scott, 4th Renfrew 43
Corporal Richardson, 3d Captain Joe, 55th Lanes-
Cambridge Universit y.. 46 shire . 43
Private Frere, Ist London 45 Serg. Jeffries, 18th Che-
Corp. Worth, BthWarwick 45 shire _ _43
Priv. Goodson, Bth Herts 45 Col.-Serg. Marriott, 4th
Priv. Chivers, sth Wilts 45 West York 43
Capt. Field, Hon, Artil- Lieutenant Hesketh, 27th
lery Company .. 44 Lancashire .. 43
CoL-Serg. Reavill (2),26th Sergeant Edwards, 6th
Kent .. . .. 44 Stafford 43
Sergeant-Maj. Robinson,
44
Stubbings. 7th
2d Lincoln Artillery .. Dorset .. .. 43
Priv. Ingram, let Lanark 44 Priv. Nodder, Ist Lanes-
Ensign Thomas, 4th W. shire .. .. 43
York .. . 41 Private Wyatt, Ist Lon-
Priv. Vignoles, 38th Mid- don . • .. .. 42
diesex 44 Priv. Stormont, Ist Lon-
Major Scott, 33d Lanca- don • • .. 42
shire .. 43 Col.-Serg. Westake, 18th
Corp. M`Bean, 4th Box- Devon
burgh .. 43
Winners of £5 each al
Points.
Serg. Gutteridge, 34th
Stafford 42
Capt. Russell, Ist ;Mx.. 42
Corp. Whitwell, Ist West
York ~ . .. 42
Lleut.-CoL Raiford, 4th
Leicester . .. 42
Priv. Oakes, 11th. Surrey 42
Private Keiser, 2d Tower
Hamlets .. 42
Serg. Birks, 4th Notts .. 42
Private Danko, Ist Notts 42
Serg. Williamson, 29th
Lanarkshire .. 42
Lieut. White, 25 .h
West
York .. .. 42
Private Hanson, Bth Staf-
fordshire .. 42
Ensign Burton, 40th Mid-
dlesex .. . .. 42
Corp. Rodger, sth *Forfar-
shire .. .. 42
Corp. Connell, Bth Dur-
-1 am. 42
Ensign Lockhart, 7th
Ayr .. .. 42
Corp. Allen, 14th Wilts.. 42
The following are winners
in the 2d stage (Queen's)
Points.
Private Hall, 9th Middle-
sex 41

L 30 Badges, N.R.A.

.. 42

„
Points.
Private Dolamore, 27th
Middlesex .. .. 41
Col-Sergeant Hart, 38th
Middlesex .. .. 41
Corp Germyn, 2d South
Middlesex • • .. 41
Private Bruce, let Edin-
burgh . • .. .. 41
Private Brooks, Ist Devon 41
Serg. Deacon, 6th North-
ampton .. • . .. 41
Ensign Black, 22d Middle-
sex • • • • .. 11
Private Hepplestone, 6th
Lancashire 41
Private Holland, Ist Mid-
dlesex .. .. 4 t
Capt. Milligan, Leicester 41
Private Hemery, 11th
Middlesex .. 41
Serg. Snelous, Bth Che-
shire .. 11
Private Popplewell, 37th
West Yorkshire.. .. 41
Private Simmonds, 12th
Bergs 41

of £3 each, but do not shoot

Points.
Priv. Buxton, Bth Derby 40
Capt.
C.-SerMitchhegt. Wll, l ite,
st Cla Bth Kck-
ent 40
mannan .. . . 40
Capt. Bali, 25th gtafford. 40
Ens. Gruning, 14th Mid-
dlesex . . .. 40
Priv. Clarke, Kent 40
Sergt. Spurrell, 12th Kent 40
Sergt. Kimble, 25th Kent 40
Private Noraworthy, 23d
Middlesex .. 40
Private Holloway, sth
Glocester .. .. .. 40
Corp. hissett, sth Forfar 40
iCapt. Greg, 22d Cheshire 40
{Private Seaman, 27th W.
York .. .. .. 40
Corp. Dunn, 7th Kent .. 40
Col.-Sergt. Baines, 23d
Middlesex .. .. 40
Ensign Hitchcock, Gth
\IN ilti .. .. .. 40
MT.Tt7AV, illtfrM: 'A
coln .. .. .. 40
Priv. Anderson, 3d Lei-
cester .. .. .. 40
Sergt. Muir, 3d Kirkcud-
bright .. .. .. 40

Sergt. Porteous, oth laid-
dlesex 41
Priv. Crtddle, 11th Corn-
wall ~41
Ensign Hooper, 40th Mid-
dlesex .. • • • • 41
Corp. Day, 6th Cheshire 41
Lieut. Fryer, 4th North
York . 41
Priv. Wyatt, 13th Salop.. 41
Priv. B I aekmore, 2d Devon 41
Priv. Birkley, 2d Tower
Hamlets .. 41
Serg,t.-Instructor Robin-
son, 16th Middlesex .. 41
Capt. lladden, Is t Notts .. 41
Priv. Atkins, 12th Essex 41
Priv. Payitt, 16th Somer-
set. .. 41
Serct. Milner, 2d South
Middlesex .. .. 41
Lieut. Waft vtvilfg.: II
C.-Sergt. Churchill, Ist
London .. .. 40
C.-Sergeant Delves, 17th
Kent .. 41
Corp. Roberts, 6th Salop.. 40
Priv. II arper, 2d Salop .. 4
From this list it will be seen that although the
top scores made with the Enfield rifle in the first
stage of the Queen's Prize have not been as high
this year as in 1863, the competitors shot very
evenly and steadily throughout, the figures descend-
ing in regular gradation and without break or in-
terruption, from 47 downwards. In fact, calculations
have been entered into with a view of showing that
the general average of the shooting for the Queen's
Prize this year is higher than it was in 1863—a
view which is certainly supported by the fact that
last year three men who had made 41 were included
in the first class of 30, which this year contains no
competitor who scored less than 42 ; and that the
second class of 30 then contained 19 volunteers who
qualified with 40 marks, whereas this year the first
name having 40 opposite to it, is pushed down to
the 77th place on the list. The small-bore shooting
exhibits an undoubted improvement this year. In
competitions where 20 is the highest possible num-
ber, 19 marks have been made and beaten over and
over again. This was the case notably at the second
series of extra prizes given for the highest score at
800 yards with any rifle. Lord Ducie made what
was apparently the fine score of 19, but just after-
wards the statistical department received intelli•
gence that there had been ties at that number, and
finally, it was exceeded by a gentleman from the
noble lord's own county. Experience shows
daily more and more what a fund of experience and
observation is indispensable to the rifleman who
seeks to compete on anything like equal terms with
the first-class shots abounding at Wimbledon. The
wind, the light, the character of the soil, the lie of
the range, all these are points that cannot be too
carefully 'studied. The day has gona by when
buying a good rifle and holding it straight was all
that was requisite in small-bore contests, and the
volunteer who hss never shot anywhere beyond
his county range, is as much at a loss when
he comes to the head-quarters of the National
Association as an untravelled person on his
entrance into society. As one instance of what it
is in the power of practised shots to accomplish,
take the case of Captain Beaton. In the course of
the present meeting he has fired 61 shots at the
Swiss target. Of these 58 were bull's-eyes, 26 of
the shots lodging within the 11-inch carton.
A point which is being forced into prominence by
the high average shooting, both with smooth bores
and regulation rifles, is the manner in which ties
ought in future to be disposed of. Matters have
reached such a pitch now that in the Alexandra
competition, if targets were given up in adequate
numbers to allow the ties to be shot off expedi-
tiously there would be enough to throw back the
proceedings of the Association fora day. Irre•
spective of equal scores for higher prizes, there are
no lees than 109 of 15 for a prize of £3. Reran,.
bering that 108 must be disappointed when these
ties are shot off, and that the net value of the prize
if distributed among them would be a little over 6d.
per man, it sounds like an absurdity, but it is never-
theless true, that eac`a out of those 109 competitors
will incur an outlay of 2s. for sighting shots before
the question of precedence can be determined.
Suggestions have been made in some quarters that
the matrer should be decided by lot ; in others that
a gradual process of elimination founded upon a
comparison of the scores made at the different
ranges should be employed. It is evident that some
general principle as to ties must be adopted, once
for all, now that between 2,000 and 3,000
competitors enter for a single prize. The extent of
the difficulty in the case of the Alexandra Prize
will be seen from the following statistics :
ALEXANDRA PRIZE.
At 200 Yards.
2 ties of 16 to shoot for first prize of £2O.
14 ties of 17 to shoot for one prize of £l5, and six prizes
of £lO.
28 ties of 16 to shoot for 16 prizes of £5.
109 ties of 15 to shoot for one prize of £3.
At 500 Yards.
6 ties of 18 to shoot for two prizes of £l5.
19 ties of 17 to shoot for two prizes of £lO, and 16 prizes
o f £5.
52 ties of 16 to shoot for 19 prizes of £3.
No isooner has Captainyage, the executive officer of