The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-30 00:00:00

NEW INVENTED PROJECTILE

Since the invention of gunpowder, which ef-
rected such an extraordinary revolution in
nodern warfare, nothing has been produced for
die destruction of human life, the reduction of a
tbrtress, or the explosion of a ship of war, equal
.o a projectile invented by a French nobleman,
,vhich was subjected to examination yesterday
at Woolwich, under the direction of a Com-
mittee of Military Officers appointed by the
3laster-General of the Ordnance for that pur-
pose. It consists of an explosive composition
enclosed in a ball, which being dischaged from
a shell or cannon, prpduces the most destruc-
:lse effects the moment it reaches the object
against which it is directed. Such is the terrific
character of its explosive qualities that a single
call properly directed is capable of damaging
or even destroying the largest ship. The test to
which the invention has as yet been submitted
has been conducted upon a small scale, which,
however, was so satisfactory, as to induce the
Committee to direct arrangements to be made
for trying its capabilities in a manner to enable
the inventor to display its extraordinary power,
so as to leave no doubt of its efficiency as a mi-
litary engine of destruction. In the present
stage of the investigation we abstain from pre-
senting to our readers the details of the experi-
ments which took place yesterday, further than
to state our opinion, from what we witnessed at
the initiatory examination, that the further
trials will realise all that the clever originator cf
this extraordinary invention has alleged of its
stupendous force and power of destruction-.

Ma. M'LEoD.—The following authentic state-
ment with regard to this individual is of importance at the
present moment. We have been favoured by a friend cf
Captain Drew, the officer who commanded the attack on
the Caroline steamer, with an ext,act from a letter in
which Captain Drow positively states that Mr. M‘Leod,
whom the Americans have charged with murder during
that aff,ir, was not one of the party engaged in the cap-
ture rf that vcssel.—Devonport Independent.
At St. Allan's Cattle Fair a dealer who .had
dispro.ed of his stock to tl:e amount of 851. was enticed
by two London sharpers, in the garb of bore dealere, to
g.) to the Cross Keys to look at a horse ; he went with
tnem, but no horse was there; they went, however, into
the house and took something to drink, and while there he
gave them change for a 51. note ; they then enticed him
to the tap of the Verulam Arms Hotel, and treated him
With two pints of wine. The dealer then fell asleep, and
when he awoke found himself minus 851 The sharper;
have got clear cff with their booty.

IMPORTANT PROPERTY CASE.—The great
cause of Watson Rutledge v. George Rutledge, after oc-
cupying Mr. Jut-tice Ball and a Special Jury five days at
Gglway assizes, closed on Friday afternoon with a %erdict
fur the defendant. The estates which formed the 'subject
of li igation are valued at 4,000/. per annum. Mr. O'Con-
nell was leading counsel for the defendant, for whom Mr.
Litton, Q. C., also came down specially.
PUBLIC EDIFICES —Mr. flume has fixed on
Tuesday the 6th of April, as the day when he will bring
forward his motion, for a S lect Committee to inquire into
ti-e state of the national rnonurr eats and works of art in
Westminster Abbey, Paul's, aid other public edifices;
to consider of the best means fur their protection, and fir
affording "facilities to the public fur their inspection, ns
a means of moral and iitefleatual impri..vement for the;
peerle."

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MISSING SIIIP•S CREW DISCOVERED.—WC
are glad to annouceP the s,,fe arrival of Captain R. Ca,-
ton and crew, of the shop Matilda, of Ipswich, who were
supp)sed to have perisl cl, the vessel having sailed from
Lisbon on the 23J of December last, and not since been
heard of. The Matilda was run down by an American
vessel, bound to New Orleans, to which place Captain
Casten and his crew were taken, with the exception of
one seaman, who went down with the vessel.
A correspondent of the Gazette de Ilanovre, of
Berlin, March 15, says. apropos to the fair of Frankfort-
sur-l'Oder :—The lasi fir had tl.e most fatal results for
some of our mantifacti:eni. Berlin alico, which genc:aily
i tic 1,...,4 ttt.Ct i) •
favourable to the retail, and, consequently, shopkeepers
could not come forward to buy."