The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-10 00:00:00

THEAT RE• ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
LsQee. Mr. J. B. Bucastone.
THIS EVENING, SHOCKING EVENTS.
Followed by (99th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN.
Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
atone.
Alter which, GRIMSILAW, BAGSIIAW, AND BRAD-
SHAW.
Concluding with FOUNDED ON FACTS.
c ommence a 7.

OY AL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manatzer.--Mr. Edmund Falconer.
TIT IS EVENING, 127th time of the new and original Drama
entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Pal-
c,-Ater ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Kiss Lydia Thompson.

Acting
Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 dill

NEW THI ATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster.
TATS EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Mr. Billingrtun, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and
31iss K. Bland.

Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and
Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, 13111ington,
Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington,
Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw.

'r o conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
3. L. Toole, Emery, Billing-ton, Misses K. Kelly, K. Bland,
Laidlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston.

Commence at 7.

ittiS rLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Eleptsnts.
THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
RAJAH OF NAGPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic
Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals
ever exhibited.
To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un-
rivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
Concluding with a Mu, hable Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

C :NTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.

The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten
o'clock, for a few evenings only.
Grand Selections from " La Sonnambnla" and "Dinorah,"
by Ntdme. Negri, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band
and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
The Comte Department by Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G,
Porde. Mr. W. Randall. Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond,
anA Miss Caroline Parkes.
The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon,
Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th ol
April.

Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze

EVERY EVENING,

The musical entertainment as usual, Including Robert
Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed
cxpt essly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley.
Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme.
Maria. and Mdme. Enderssohn. Full Band and Chorus.—
Mus.cal Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Comic—Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the
Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. RandalL
Mall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

-HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 10h. 16m.—Afternoon, 10h. 55n1
To-monitow. -Morning, 11h. 28m.—Afternoon, h. m

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862.

" The guns have it "—seems to be the last verdict
of Shueburyness. Our readers can peruse at their
leisure the account of the experiments in another
column ; but, so far as they have gone, there can be
no doubt that they leave artillery victor over iron
p;ates. The target against which the shots were
dirk,cted was a fac simile of the plated sides of the
Warrior; and 5t seems hardly to be doubted that if
such a gun as was used could hit that magnificent
ship, once, between wind and water, she could
hardly be saved from sinking. The hole made would
be of a kind which could hardly be stopped,
while, could a second shot be made to hit near the
same place, the result wust be the same as that of
the attack on the Cumberland with the prow of the
Merrimac.

The experiments of Tuesday were made with a
new wrought-iron muzzle-loading gun, constructed
by Sir W. ARMSTRONG. When rifled it will be a
300-pounder; being smooth bored at present, it
carried a round ball of only half that weight. The
point, however, has been for some time settled that
at short distances the smooth bores, with the round
ball, are the most effective. The initial velocity of
the shot is much greater, though it so rapidly de-
clines, that at 500 yards the elongated rifle shot and
the round one have equal speed, and the
latter touches the ground at 3,000 yards,
the elongated shot from the rifled gun not having
then pnrtormed half its journey. It will be seen
that the :first round shot fired from the new gun
With a fort' pounds charge of powder, was sufficient
to smash the .4,3- inch plate, the ten inches of teak,
and to bulge an,rl rend the iron skin inside, nearly
an inch thick, in sad). a manner that it could hardly
have been plugged frotu the inside so as to keep out
the water. The seconds hot made the damage ten-
fold worse; and a third Act, with 501bs. of powder
at an uninjured plate, was, if possible, yet more
destructive. The additional 10.1bs. of powder were
sufficient to send it clean through plates, wood, and
everything, and to bury the shot in the timbers op-
posite which support the target—not only that, but
even the massive blocks of granite by which the
target is backed up were shaken and loosened.
Sir WILLIAM himself (in a letter to a morning
contemporary) thus states' his view of these im-
portant results :

ic yet, though I consider our 110-poundelf weighing 81
cwt., to be amply sufficient for firing shells, it roust be con-
ceded that neither it nor the 68-pounder smooth-bore,
Weighing 95 cwt., nor any other gun as yet in the eervice
of this or otterter countries, is sufficiently powerful to ope-
rate 'will effect against ships protected like the Warrior.
It .
sot piercing small clean cut holes with steel shot
that
act
with
can hope to destroy or disable such a ship. To
I'4 Proper effect, we must knock large ragged holes
in the ai,,
tera. I:, and render the interior untenable from splin-
with a char:: know that a gun of 12 tons weight, fired
side of the wof
501 b. of powder, will break through the
such a gun the eitiO:' the strongest ship afloat. Against
thZtporised Monitor and Merrimac would
be little better
zber ships, for the cast-iron shot,
in passing through
the ,moor, breaks into a thousand
pieces, and would act
sharpnel on the crew within.
Bat wo. must be prepared for
:.seels stronger than these
—e tronger even than the
warrior,
vtirr, and should, therefore,
go on increasing the sire
Suns until we reach
some practical limit. The weight of
such guns, how-
everlie and
mechanical
objectionable, must be aceeptod
asanecessity,
seems ships must be adapted for their reception. I
problem of working monster guns at Sea already
well-nigh solved by Captain CoLEs's method ; but IT
diffi-
culties yet remain, we may rest assured that they are of
a nature to be overcome by engineering skill."

~„
0 course when the subject comes Up again We
shall have the Premier arid the Minister for Wat,
reiterating their conviction of the neccisi:-y of fixed
forts. But we still think the case is fully made
out for delay. Sir W. ARMSTRONG himself tells us
that the problem of mounting these irresistible guns
on shipboard has been solved by Captain COLES.
Still, therefore, the battery which can get more
t.i‘2ll one shot at an intruder is the one we want.
Admitting that the first shot from a fort might be
" 11147 as to hit exactly at the spot where it could