The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-19 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market Nery firm at hardening rates. Sales pro-
bably 20,000 bales.

Orders have just been issud that the 110-pound
projectiles previously supplied for the Armstrong breech-
loading 110-pounders are to be recalled from all foreign
stations, ships, and arsenals. They are to be replaced
by projectiles of 901bs. weight, which will be issued as the
manufacture of the 100,000, now ordered, proceeds. It has
further been finally determined that the charge in future
shall be 101bs. only, the original charge, it will be remem-
bered, being 141b5., which was afterwards reduced to 121 b.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE REGENT'S CANAL.-
Yesterday an inquest was held in the Kingsland-road, on
the body of Thomas Parrott, aged eleven years. The
boy was riding a horse, towing a barge, near the Kings-
land Basin of the Regent's Canal, when another barge
came up, and the towing rope swept deceased and his horse
into the river. The animal was got out alive, but the
deceased was drowned. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death.

THE SHUNT GUN TRIED AND CONDEMNED.—Our
predictions with regard to the ultimate destiny of
the shunt system have been singularly and completely
verified. After a protracted trial, it has at length had that
verdict pronounced upon it, which we, from the first
specified. The shunt gun has been definitively abandoned,
and no large guns will for the future be rifled on that
principle. The 64-pounders which have so very recently
been finished and issued to the royal navy, have utterly
failed on trial on board ship. The shot with the hollow
head did not travel in a straight course, and were found
to break up on impact, or even by a fall upon the ship's
deck. Tie intention now is to make new shot, which are
to be hollow in the rear. The shells from this naval 64-
pounder have been found to burst prematurely in the gun,
and in one gun, on board the Excellent, the rifling was en-
tirely destroyed from this cause. A second gun was also
seriously damaged by a similar premature explosion of the
shell. The rifling of the French gun, which has a gaining
twist, has been strongly recommended by the Ordnance
Select Committee, for naval guns. The committee, how-
ever,states that it will be necessary to introduce sundry,
fortifications, which it is now engaged in carrying out
previously to applying the system to the naval guns of 7,8,
and 9 in. bore, weighing 6j, 8, and 12 tons, respectively.
The new gun constructed according to the committees'
modifications of the French rifling, is to be called the
" Woolwich""gun. This, then, is the present position of
matters in this respect, a position which speaks so plainly
for itself as to render more than superfluous any comment
on our part.—Mechanics' Magazine.
AN IRISH OUTRAGE.—EarIy in the morning of
Thursday last, some diabolical ruffian went to the stable
of Mr, John Butler, of Minawn, adjoining Callan, a re-
spectable fanner, and deliberately cut one ear off every
beast therein, comprising five horses and a donkey. The
deed must have been committed early in the morning, as
it was not till between twelve and one o'clock that the
owner brought into the stable one of the horses, a most
valuable animal, worth at least £loo.—Kilkenny Moderator.