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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1864.

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gun can do, and nothing more. The studs, however, are
in most cases 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 most 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 as, 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 competitor 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 programme 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 garrisen 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.
I, 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 practce at 2 deg, 5 deg, 10
with such charge and
pergun {of the first
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.
supply of
solidh e
shot remaining
elevation aa the committee may direct with or without wads.
roundse fired
" 15. Ten projectiles of the first
( l 30) ninewill
supply which have tra-
velled 200 miles to be fired with 251 b charge 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 251 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
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 this second 100 rounds to fire them in such a
way as to bring oat 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 wheiber any one of
them is to be recommened for further ti isl or adoption.
" 23. The trial of atoll shot 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 others a must important experiment 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, and 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
he at 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 61 inch armour plates. Behind this,
strengthened with horizontal stringers of wrought iron, are
18 inches of teak, and behind this, again, a double skin of
iron, liin thickness, the whole being backed by iron ribs
22in 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 b 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 backing
were both crashed through, a
perfect shower of pieces of
the armour and splinters, or little beams rather, being cast
far and wide in all directions. Nothing could be more
conclusive than this proof that, according to both theory
and practice, 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 yarde, 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
experiment, therefore
miles. The ex 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 dogs. of
which is theat can . b
e
elevation,
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 nearly two Years at Shoebury, but
incredible as it may seem, it has never been tested properly

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Experiments at Shoeburyness.

The daily and somewhat dull routine of the long compe
tition between Armstrong and Whitworth will, we believe,
be discontinued for the present week, to allow time for
making some experiments at Shoebury, which are, to say
the least, of quite as much interest and importance to the
public as any results that are likely to be elicited by the
gun contest. What has been done in this competition during
the last week may be summed up in a very few words. The
three 70-pounders have been tried entirely for range and
accuracy with common shot, and with a few rounds of Boxer
shrapnel shell for the Whitworth and segment for the Arm-
strong. With solid shot the elevation was continued up to
21 degrees, the shunt gun ahead of the breechloader in
range, and the Whitworth ahead of the shunt, the latter
keeping a gradually increasing lead as the elevation got
higher, till at the highest, 21 degrees, it threw its shot very
nearly three-quarters of a mile beyond the Armstrong.
With a few rounds of shell burst in front of three target
screens, placed at intervals of six yards apart, Mr Whit-
worth was equally successful. The spherical form and in-
creased density of the shrapnel bullets in Colonel Boxer's
enabled it to inflict many damages which were apparently
beyond the reach of the rough iron segments of the Arm-
strong shell. In the first and second screens the perfora-
tions were about equal, but in the third screen the Boxer
shell effected, at a rough estimate, almost four er five times as
many perforations as the Armstrong. At 2 degrees of
elevation the shooting of Mr Whitworth's gun was some•
thing almost marvellous in its accuracy. In longitudinal
accuracy its shots made a beautiful group, while the mean
of the lateral deviation was as low as about 6ft. Even Mr
Lancaster, wonderfully as his gun now seems to shoot, can
scarcely hope to attain better results than this. But, as we
have said, the further prosecution of these trials stands
adjourned for a week, to allow some to be tried that are, we
venture to think, of more pressing interest to the service.
These trials are first to continue experiments on three
different systems of rifling,—viz., the French gun, Mr
Lancaster's, and Commander Scott's; secondly, to test the
range and accuracy of Sir William Armstrong's great 600-
pounder at high elevation ; and thirdly, to test the resist-
ance of aLa Gloire target—a target that has been built to
precisely resemble, in all its most minute details of backing
and fastening, the broadside of the much praised French
frigate La Gloire. All these experiments are to take place,
if possible, in the present week, which promises, therefore,
to be one of the most instructive we have ever had at
Shoebury.
First, as to the competing systems of rifling, the trial of
which is now in full progress under the Ordnance Select
Committee, which seems to get through its work with a
quickness from which the Special Committee on Armstrong
and Whitworth guns might derive a most valuable lesson.
Four guns were made for this competition at Woolwich, all
7-inch calibre, to throw 1101 b shot, all weighing about 7i
tons, and all manufactured on Sir William's improved plan
—namely, with steel barrels and wrought. iron coils wound
round them. One of these was a compound gun, with a
rifling of 15 grooves, made to fire the lead-capped projec-
tiles proposed both by Mr Bashley Brittain and Mr
Jeffereys. It is needless, however, to say more of this
piece, as it has new been withdrawn from further compe-
tition. Another was a three.grooved gun used throughout
France—the " canon rays," with cast studs on the shot to
enable it to take the rifling, and otherwise resembling
though much inferior to Sir William's shunt gun. Another
is Mr Lancaster's gun—the grooveless rifle with a slightly
elliptical bore, having one complete turn in 52 diameters
and firing a conical.headed shot Min. long. The next gun
which now remains to complete is that of Commander Scott,
having a rifling of five shallow grooves, and firing a conical
shot of 12iin. The trials of these guns have been made
along a stated range, over the sands at low tide, for range
and accuracy up to 10 deg., and with charges rising from
the lower to the higher elevations of from 121 b. to 201 b.,
and lastly, 251 b. The performances of the French gun
may be summed up as making a respectable average in its
range and accuracy, not worthy of much remark either as
bad or good; in fact, just what any ordinarily good rifled

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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 Ras optional
many of the wariest riflemen held 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.
Point 3.

Points.

Serg. Jenks, Ist Shrop-
shire .. .. 43
Priv. Rhead, 3d Glouces-
ter Artillery .. 43
Ensign Lloyd, Ist Devon 43
Priv. Scott, 4th Renfrew 43
Captain Jee, 55th Lanca-
shire . 43
Serg. Jeffries, 18th Che-
shire .. .. 43
Col.-Serg. Marriott, 4th
West York .. .. 43
ILieutenant Hesketh, 27th
Lancashire 43
Sergeant Edwards, 6th
Stafford .. .. 43
Private Stubbings. 7th
Dorset .. .. 43
Priv. Nodder, Ist Lanca-
shire .. 43
Private Wyatt, Ist Lon-
don .. .. 42
Priv. Stormont, Ist Lon-
don 42
Col.-Serg. Westake, 18th
Devon .. 42

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chapel as circumstances would permit. A reading
desk and pulpit were erected and covered with the
Union Jack, and seats were disposed commodiously
around so that as many auditors as possible might
be accommodated, while those whom the limits of
the tent could not contain were enabled to see and
hear over the heads of the sitting portion of the
congregation. When all had taken their places the
aspect of the assembly was striking. With the
exception of a few seats in the vicinity of the pul-
pit, where the Speaker of the House of Commons,
Lord Houghton, and some members of the Council,
with their wives and families, were placed, the
whole interior space was filled with uniforms, The
Guards were placid to the right of the reading desk,
the police to the left, and all the other beats were
occupied indiscriminately by officers of the Line,
Volunteers, See. Outside the military assembly,
and consequently outside the protection afforded by
the marquee, other attendants upon divine service,
for the most part fashionably dressed, braved the
full rays of a burning sun. A short special service,
similar to that used in military churches, and first
introduced into the Volunteer service by the Not.
tingham Regiment (Robin Hood) was performed,
the prayers being read by the Rev.
T. Hanley Ball,
M.A., lecturer of St. Mary's, Wimbledon, and the
band of the London Scottish supplying a little too
leisurely, but still with good effect, the instrumental
accompaniment and guide to the singing. His
Grace the Archbishop took his text from 2d Kings,
chap. ix., v. 18, and the opening portion of his dis-
course was directed to the contrast between that
earlier dispensation in which Jehu entered furiously
on his mission of vengeance, and the later and milder
one having for its object the redemption of man-
kind. Many, he said, had been pt zzled by the
apparent inconsistency of the two na4tneds of deal-
ing with the human race. The records of the older
epoch were sickly with the odour of blood, while the
New Testament was a message of boundless love.
Did it follow that there had been any change of
plan on the part of the great Designer? Not in the
least. The contrast was as plainly visible in our
own time as it could be on the page of history. It
was only the previous day that the crack of the rifle
had been followed on that very spot by the ringing
stroke of the bullet, showing, if need existed, that
a life was in the hand of the man who fired the shot.
That day they were met to glorify Him who gave
up His own life that others might not suffer. The
Archbishop briefly traced the rise and spread of the
movement, holding that, although "Peace" should.
ever be the Christian's motto, there was a point
where non-resistance ceased to be a duty—when
free institutions were imperilled, when the lives
and liberties of others were at stake, and when
religion itself was in danger of being overthrown.
Then, addressing himself to the volunteers more
pointedly, he said that hitherto the influence of the
force had been altogether for good. While it could
never be an invading areay it had taught its memn
bers to conquer sloth, and to make diligent use of
those leisure hours which too often there was a
temptation to yield to idleness or worse. Its
existence had been specially beneficial to the young,
whom it was hardest for the ministers of religion
to reach or to know much about. But there was
even more that the force of its example might do.
The Archbishop drew a striking picture of the re-
sults to be anticipated from the existence of a force
whose members individually felt the full responsin
bility of their acts, who would shrink from staining
their uniforms by contact with anything evil or
ignoble, and of whom it could never be said that
any one of their number had injured man or
wronged woman. The characteristics of the ser-
mon throughout were its extreme earnestness and
practical application. Apart front the noteworthy
circumstance that so eminent a dignitary of the
Church of England thought it right prominently to
endorse the otkets of the association, the address
created so proleand en impression that a desire was
universally expressed that it might be published in
'lull, a request to which his Grace immediately

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the Council, seen his way through two huge come
petitions, in each of which 2,000 men and upwards
shot, than a third (the City of London) is upon him,
which promises to attain proportions equally great.
To most men the necessity for drawing up detailed
squadding papers, of all compositions the driest and
most perplexing, in a mariner that shall defy the
scrutiny of thousands of eager eyes on the following
day would be a task sufficiently difficult, but to carry
on this work and to have it protracted and post.
poned from hour to hour by a running fire of ques.
tions, suggestions, doubts, explanations, reminders,
extenuations, and every other form of application
growing out of the hope of triumph or the con-
sciousness of defeat is enough to turn the blandest
and most polished of men into an official hyena.
But the astounding part of the matter is that, either
in his tent or outside it, " irritation" seems to be a
word unknown at Wimbledon. To such an extent
is this fact recognised, that one gallant officer
charged with the supervision of a particular depart.
ment went about for a whole day offering a reward
of half.a-crown for a grumbler. As far as the con-
test has yet gone for the City of London prizes, the
following were the highest scores made

CITY 0 F LONDON.
At 200 yards.

Points.

Private C. Hall, 9th Middlesex .............. 18
Private S. W. Block, Victorias .......... 18
Private G. Bettell, 7th Lincoln .............. 17
Sergeant W. Fuller, Victorias
Private H. Radcliffe, 2d South Middlesex
Captain R. Helium, 7th Inverness
Corporal J. Sanders, sth Monmouth., l6
Lieut. A. Haid, sth Monmouth
Sergeant J. Taylor, Leicester
Private J. Adams, 25th Stafford .. 16
Sergt.-Inst. C. Milner, 2d Middlesex
A. Leete, 22d Middlesex
Captain W. Milligan, 31st Leicester l6
Colour-Sergeant A, Harmer, 11th Surrey
Sergeant H. Smith, 15th Surrey
Private F. J, Clarke, South Middlesex
J. Y. Mayes, 37th Middlesex.. l6
H. Fowkes, Gth Lancashire
T. J. West, 47th Lancashire l6
Private Wilson, Robin Hood l6
Ensign F, Hitchcock, 7th Wilts ..

Point

assented.
As the congregation dispersed a collection was
mule, on beh.iif of the pocr of Wimbledon, the con-
tributions 13( ins appropriately received in the boxes
which on week days are devoted to pow and sight-
ing tickets.
The match between the Lords and Commons,
which it is the intention of their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of \Vales to honour with
their presence, will be shot this afternoon. It is
expected that the competition will be completed in
half the time this year which was requisite on the
last occasion, as each 11 will be divided into two
squads, and a corresponding number of targets
allotted. The gratification of spectators will be in-
creased, while the convenience of members of either
House is consulted by this arrangement. On the
part of the House of Lords the following will be
representative Peers :—The Marquis of Abercorn,
Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of Airlic, Lord Bolton, Earl
of Ducie, Lord Dufferin, Earl of Eldon, Lord Lie-
more, Earl Spencer, Lord Suffield, and Lord