The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-16 00:00:00

Zealand, 881 Algoa Bay, and 1,070 bales from Port Eliza- I
beth. THE NEW G

IEDS.
eds was extremely limited, and
indeed, Calcutta linseed was
inquiry was much restricted

The business doing in se
prices were barely supported
lower to sell. For cakes the
at late rates.

Turnip,White,p.bus.lls 4014 s
Swede 8
—;
Mustard, Brown
White, 7sod osod
Tares, Winter 7s 6d 8s
Old per quarter 33s 428
Cunary, per quarter 46s 52s
Rye grass, new —s ___,
Clover, Red Eng., et. 40s 618
White
Foreign Red.. 4Cs 48s
White. 566 80s
Trefoil, new 248 26s

Carraway —s to s
Coriander —s
Flempseed, per qr 46s 48s
Linseed,Eng.sowing 708 72s
Crushing 6OB 658
Baltic Ms 58s
Odessa
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English ......£lO 08E10 50
Foreign...... £4 108 10 108
RapeT, Cakes,p ton IC Os 6 15s
Rapeseed, per qr o4s CB9

place in prices compared with Monday last,
The tallow trade continues firm, and a further advance
has taken
P.Y.C. being quoted at 46s 9d per cwt. on the spot; ; and
at 48s 9d for the last three months delivery; rough fed,
ge 4id per Blbs.

1858. 1850. \ 1860.

1862.

13,877 4,-----'76 F 25.561 0,400 30,384
58s (id t0,5553d to',s2B3dto‘s'.'s • dto,46s 9d to
—s Od 55s 6d523 , sOd—s Od
d
790 1,043 1,427 i 1,C43 1,703
2,296 2,278 4,402 2,469 1,307
1,433 1,148 3 750 1,109
555
4,607 2,573 2,864 2,312
528 Oct 558 dO 536 Oct 526 9d 47s 3d

CRIMINAL COURT-THIS DAY•

OLD COURT.
The June sessions of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
Alderman, and Sheriffs.
The calendar contains the names of 100 prisoners, some
of the offences being of a very serious nature. There is
but one indictment for murder, via., that against las. La-
wrence, whose trial was postponed from the last until the
present session. There are three charges for manslaughte
ea r,
3 for rm:tumm 7. y wounanig, r.. ...1—;„;a4-.47,
poison, 1 for arson, and 4 for burglary ; the other charges
oonsisting of those of the usual description.
The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, referred to
the principal cases contained in the caelndar, and at the
conclusion of the learned gentleman's address the jury re-
tired to their room, and in a short time the trials com-
menced.

LIBEL.
Mr. Mathew Orr, the printer and publisher of Orr's
Kentish Journal, was indicted for having published a libel
reflecting upon a gentleman named Starke.
The charge, it appears, arose out of an application made
to a Kentish Board of Guardians by a female for the sup-
port of an illegitimate child. A report of the application
appeared in the Kentish Journal, in which it was stated
that the father of the child was the prosecutor, who held a
a respectable situation in Woolwich. This was altogether
unfounded, and the present proceedings were instituted
accordingly.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, but produced witnesses to
show how the report was inserted in the newspaper.
The Recorder fined the defendant £2O.
ROBBING EMPLOYERS,
Samuel Berry pleaded guilty to an indictment charging
him with stealing a quantity of staples, taps, &c., the pro-
perty of the Imperial Gas Company.
The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

POLICE---THIS DAY•

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SUNDAY PREACHING IN HYDE-PARE.---" RAISING TIM
WlND."—Andrew Balfour Hepburn, described as a public
lecturer from the East end of the town, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with begging in Hyde-park on Sunday.
Sergeant Charles Fraser, 11 A, said that yesterday after-
noon he saw the prisoner standing on a seat preaching to a
crowd of about 100 persons. He was telling the people an
anecdote about how he " raised the wind" in Scotland
some years back, and after some further remarks,
said he did not think he should " raise the wind"
there, as the police were about. He than said he had
lost the use of his arm and the sight of one eye, that he
was not able to work and would not, and that he did not
see any harm in the sight of God in taking money for his
labour. He said he .did not ask for any money, but he
would take all ho could get. The prisoner then held out
his hand and received a shilling and a penny. He then

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took the prisoner into custody.
Prisoner—You did not see me take a penny, for I did
not get one on my oath in the park. It was a shilling
and a sixpence I received. The penny I received outside
the park gates.
Officer—You got tho penny after the shilling.
Another constable confirmed the first witness.
Prieouel—What did you hear me preach about.

Witness —Against Mormonism.
Mr. 'William Henry Ayling, a gentleman, residing. in
Somerset-street, Portman-square, said he gave the shilling,
and perhaps had thus brought the prisoner into t,ouble.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the case as nvarly approached begging
as possible, but he would discharge him this time, and he
had better be careful for the future.
Prisoner left the court, stating that he should continue
to lecture, and should take all he could get.

WESTMINSTER.
DISGRACEFUL ATTACK UPON AN OLD MAN.—Thomas
Dundan, a powerful rough-looking fellow, was charged
with the following disgraceful outrage :
George Hindes, of 7, Chaynos-road, Chelsea, a cab pro-
prietor, apparently nearly 70 years of age, said—On Thurs-
day morning week I was at Chelsea, near Duke-street. It
was about six in the morning, and I was leading a horse
to the farrier's to be shod. Suddenly a party of men came
upon me, knocked the horse about, abused me, and struck
me violently.
Mr. Arnold—How many were there of them ?
Complainant—About ten.
Mr. Arnold—Did you see where they came from ?
Complainant—They came from the direction of C remorne-
gardens, and the first thing they did was to interfere with
the horse I was leading. Defendant and another man
both stopped me and wanted to take the horse away from
me, which I would not permit. Defendant then tried to
get on the horse's back, and not succeeding in doing that,
he began punching the horse violently in the stomach. I
told him he ought not to do that, when he struck me a vio-
lent blow in the eye. I pointed the defendant out to a
policeman,but he said he could not take him,as he had not
seen him strike me.
Mr. Arnold—Did you exhibit marks of the blow you had
received ?
Complainant—Yes ; and in a few minutes afterwards my
eyo was entirely closed.
Mr. Arnold—Did you gat the defendant's name ?
Complainant—No; he went away. He has since been
apprehended by description.
Mr. Arnold--This was the very case in which the police
ought, upon sight of recent injury, to have taken into cue-
ody.
A. witness proved seeing the assault.
Mr. Arnold—Was the defendant sober ?
Complainant—Perfectly.
Defendant—Others pushed w.e on to him.
Mr. Arnold—Have you any witnesses?
Defendant said he had not.
oppor-
He was remanded till Wednesday, to givehhn
unity of calling any witness

The new gun, shown in the Naval and Military
Court by Sir William Armstrong, is a rued breech-
loading 70-pounder, but one in which the ellanabehr
ventpiece and screw are entirely dispensed
There is no doubt esshatever but that the ventpiece
and the movement necessary tO place and close it
•
are the least perfect parts of Sir William's inven-
tion as applied to very heavy breech-loading ord-
nance. In this gun it is superseded by a iseechanisra
so simple that it may almost be termed self-acting,
and co massive that it cannot be ineored by
ov
6hot,
and, above all, so evenly balanced and
would suf-
sliding
such true surfaces that a child's etrength
T
fiupce
utfo owpreunuagnhdt_icrluousectuhilesbarneeachr.ifiedbeinusual
gnute is built
manner, hut in the breech on both sides two narresw
openings are cut, into whiets are fitted tw wedge-
Theo se, when
,
shaped masses of iron with ht:dls.
drawn aside, have openings in teas
then to seen
to the bore of the gun, which can
through from end to End, a hollow rifler: tube. Tl.e
tu cotrcspouding
shot and powder are then inserted in the o'tlinarY
way at the breech, and the foremost of the ea.:ding
iron wedges
we have mentioned drawn across so us
to close the tube.
The second and more massive
wedge is then drawn into its position so as to jamb
both tight, and the gun is ready for firing. By a
simple but most ingenious :mechanical contrivance
connected with the lock of the gun, which slides
down a powerful steel bolt thai keys the two
wedges together, the piece cannot be fired till
both wedges are in their places, nor can they be
withdrawn until this again is lifted.
It is difficult to convey to the general readee a clear
idea of this beautiful piece of mechanism, and we _fear
our attempt to describe it has only made it seem A
process to load the gun, when, in
rather complex p
rt„i, uuiy 1,1 .764 or cis. movements of the hand. are re-
quired to load a 100 or 150-pounder. A gun of this
is almost hermetically
construction has been severely tested, yet not the
wed for thew edges to
slightest escape of gas, a rather fire, has ever oc-
eSie heat of _rapid
curred, and, while the breech
closed, a sufficient play is allosiq
permit of their expansion from
firing, This is, in our opinion, the finest breeeh-
loading piece of ordnance that Sir Wesm Arm-
strong has yet invented. It has all the advatiP•ges
as to range and strength of material of its previesas
inventions. It is cheaper because simpler in its
method of construction, and can be fired much
more rapidly, as it dispenses with the hitherto
awkward necessity of lifting in and out the breech-
iece `which was, iu fact, the only drawback on the
P,
use of his very heavy guns for sea service. This gun
will, we think, before long supersede the first in-
vention as applied to the heaviest artillery, though
the value of what we may now almost call the
old method remains as great as ever for Hest ord-
or IS-pounder is a trifling matter, but the duty re-
-piece of te 12
nance. To lift in and out the breech
quires two men at the massive plug of a 100-p oun-
der, a calibre which promisee to become a compara-
tively light gun at the rate Sir William has been
peeenssion.
advancing lately. Near this gun are shown sec-
tions of shells of all sizes, both time and
The time.shell is adjusted by distance—that is,
the fuse is cut short to burst the charge so many
'e
ever: secondr
seconds after it leaves the gun,
representing a space of 400 yards ; :
Thus, after one or two shots for "
rang
shell can be burst to a nicety of 50 feet. The per'
shell, as its name implies, explodes instan-
taneously on touching any obstacles after it leaves
1 the gun. To effect this two concussions are neces-
, vary. The first one, of immense force, takes place.
at the discharge of the piece, which breaks a strong
brass pin in the base of the shell, and leaves it free
l
to traverse up a hollow little tube to the top of the
sone. The pin, while the shot is in full flight, re-
mains at the back, or bottom of the shell, but on the
slightest check occurring to the flight of the projec-
tile it is driven to the top, and touches detonating
lights and ex-
' p
plod
ease r
theso exquisitely
these nine iitsisvi el
stil 'neslit
an ousl So
P
carefully are the pal is adjustedthat nothi.ng but the
Saney.
tremendous force of the discharge in the g• In will
break the pin in the first instance; and, aftear I:.hat,
touching a bag of shavings or a sheet of cnv
harass e
'
will suffice to ignite the shell, The burstiog cg
of powder is very small—only sufficient poprt tie
segments of cast iron of which it is built
These are spread abroad like a fan by the rotatory
motion of the shot, while they retain all the power
of its onward velocity.
The experiments tried with these shells ag
eighainst
t
canvass partitions of the size a h
of companies of infantry have shown in
theory that their destructive effects were terrible,
and the practice gained by the experience of
the Chinese war proved that they were infinitely
more destructive to an enemy than they were
even supposed to be. The percussion shell is
now almost an old idea, but if Sir "William Arm-
strong had done nothing more than apply his scien-
tific principles to the construction and method of
the
bursting shells he would hen earned all
prais
pere
he has obtained in this country. Ris segment -
cussion-shell is the most destructive missile that
the science of modern war has yet brougLt to per-
fection. The visitor can judge at a glance 0, their
tremendous power, for close by the shells is eeZhi-
bited a kind of large iron beehive, in which one of
the small shells was exploded. There is scarcely' is
superficial inch of this in which ono or more piece°
of iron and lead are not sticking.
Near this are the guns of Armstrong's
—Mr. Whitworth. The large 70-ph
which.
sent its flat-headed shot clean through the
accomplishediron sides
of the Trusty (the only gun that ever h
aeries i easn.do f
greatest i. m p or-
,et iese
hng
to-uol.tno
ahgitdsher
eer
es_raet
it,.
a‘i,ls_erivalavwell.
that
naeoit,
ni .
such a feat till Sir William recently brought
beingfort
his 120-pounder at Shoebury
required by the GOVt
el:oll7o:::estorr.aanh
twa
hn lc
he shpaesr
attained
accuracy, and is still the only piece that has sent
as light a shot as 701 b. through 41 inches of solid
The_Whintwefsos
iron plate. The Blakeley gun, also in this Court,
nonce, very similar in principle
is a very good piece of rifled muzzle-loading ord-
A large 'wren
rage" of the French. Even, however, a rifled
muzzle-loader it is inferior ~ ae,
being a br)r li. h
to Whitworth 's,
IV ic
has the advantage of
wrought-iron gun is exhibited from the
Mersey works, which, as a perfecte .triumph, of
forging, should have
been shown side by side with
the double-throw
crank of the same firm in the
Eastern Annexe, In the Military Court it scarcely
THE BLACK/RIARS ROAD TRAGEDY.-,-It had deserves much notice as a weapon, amid the claimer
been intended to remove tile Doilies of the unhappy man of its more important rivals. The
shells of the
Moekford and his children from the house in the Black- monster mortarp--shells which., when loaded, weigh
friars-road to the premises of the undertaker during the as much as 25 cwt., are another in of extra-
night succeeding the inquest, and although it had been at vagant invension of which this Court offers as manny
first generally supposed that the removal had actually taken samples as any other in the building.
Every kid
place, it subsequently became known that circumstances of breech-loading small arm is, of course, to be found,
had occurred to prevent it, and that the funeral was to take here, and since our remarks upon the absurdity of
place yesterday. In consequence of this large numbers of keeping the cases locked an attendant has been
of people assembled around the house between appointed to open them and submit the various
one and two
o'clock, and by half-past two, when the pro- weapons to the inspection of those interested. The
cession started, not less probably than melancholy - result of the comparative examination that is the
3,000 persons were •
present, most of whom apparently belongeddaily made has become almost conclusive as to the
able classes of society. The three to the respect-
coma superiority of the American invention of Mr. Store
hearse and two mourning s were placed in one
coaches followed, containing re- over others. In this piece there is nothing special
latives and friends of the d
patiently and respectfully, deceased. The spectators stood in either. the. lock, or
.stock, or barrel, the 0111 Y
spite the rain, and when
y, never decreasing in number de- invention, in fact, being the breech-loading sr
brought out of the ti. en the coffins of the children were paratus, which is applicable to any and every
some
were affected t house scores of women and young girls barrel, at a cost, it is stated, as low as nch
the road to B o tears. The procession moved slowly along 16s. each. The breech, about an inch or !int, an
Ilford C lackfriars-bridge, and then more rapidly to the and a half in length, is fitted to the barrel en-' by
were emetery, where the bodies of father and children ordinary hinge, which is thrown up abet'
Charge
interred together. No writing has been found about a. movement of the finger or thum ,_
the abtatct, ea Per-
inserted, and the breech closed.
apartments affording any positive indication of Mock-intim' that one
ford's dreadful intention; but various little incidents have featly simple is the whole oere
in our sere
come to light to show that his course was predetermined, of the chief objections to its adoption_
and fire so quick-.
a. s well as to justify the verdict of the jury that the shock- vice is that the men couldloaday
all their ammu-
mg domestic tragedy was the result of mental aberration ly that they would shoot al° - There is
nation before coming into action. is much
arising from the loss of his wife. force in this objection as applied to the training of
ESCAPE OF THREE PRISONERS FROM Ilestsn- the men, though We eanhardly see how it c'n affect
rliioeuNsGEß-LNNE GAOL.—On Saturday morning three noto- the character of a weapon so easily used. The
convictsPede-
made their escape from Horsemonger-lane ral Government have ordered a
Gaol. large number of
The gaol authorities refuse to give information as these rifles for the use of their troops, and the effect
to the mode of escape, and all that can be stated is that it with which they have been used against the C
was effected with much ingenuity, and in spite of what federates is already spoken of. Abr h A 111..
were considered the most satisfactory precautions. The rifle is the great military a
-esiderat_ _ nee -loa-ing
first of the three convicts is George Burrell, aged 24 years, so, that the Prussian army is
entirely
now; so much
armed with
committed from Lambeth Police Court on the 3d of March, weapons of this class—very int • eriorl ones, it is true,
to the Kingston Assizes, for burglary with Violence, and but infinitely better than an
sentenced to six years' penal servitude. The second is I year some wonderful shnotyinmuzz muzzle-loader. Last
Charles Frost (alias Alfred Walker), formerly residing in 'Wimbledon meeting with brgeevcvha-sloamdaerse ofat the
Grove-road, Brixton committed Ri h d Police I Storm's
/ from c monpatent ad
rifles.
Court, on the 28th March, 1862, convicted at the Surrey worth Sinceapted to the Enfield and Whit-
Sessions for housebreaking, and sentenced to six years' of the highest r f -
then it has been tried by some
has been
p o essional authorities on musketry,
penal servitude. The third is George Rayson (alias Sack- and been pronounced perfect. Its great adva-ne
man), aged 29, who formerly resided at Victoria-place, to es ma-
y be summed up in the few words that it
Poylar, committed from Lambeth Police Court on the 2d requires no s ' l ammunition •
the
Poylar, , is adaptable at the
of April for larceny, and sentenced to six years' penal ser- low cost we have mentioned to any rifle, which can
vitude. Up to Saturday not the slightest clue had been then be loaded at either breech or muzzle, it is so
obtained of the escaped convicts, although a most diligent simple in its mechanism that it can be fired easily
search has been made by the police/ and a reward offered from twelve to fifteen times a minute, and as rapidly
in the dark as in the daylight.
for their apprehension,