The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-13 00:00:00

IWO ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDERS.

A shocking occurrence took place on Friday morning
in the parish of Sneinton, adjoining Nottingham. A

man named George Buttery, whipthOng maker, of
Bromley-street, Nottingham, some time ago separated
from his wife, owing to her loose habits. A few days ago
he met her in the street, and some disagreement took
place between them, resulting in the latter applying to
the borough magistrates for a summons against her hus-
band for an assault, and the case was to have been heard
on Friday. At an early hour in the morning, however,
Buttery presentedlimself at the door of the house
at which his wife lodged, and expressed a wish to
speak to her. He was put out by the occupier of the
house and went away. Subsequently his wife left home to
go to her work at Sneinton, and when in West-street, in
4 hat parish she met her husband (who had
gone there to wait for her), with an axe in his
hand. He approached her and struck violently at
her head with the axe. To protect leer head, however,
she held up her arm and received the blow there, the
bone being broken and the arm frightfully lacerated. The
woman then took refuge in a shop, and the man, seeing

a policeman approaching, dropped the axe (which was
laite a new one), and took to his heels. The oiiicer gave
IZll.ils, and captured him, in the borough of Nottingham.
:I:L. was subsequently brought bef ore the magistrates, and
r,qualaled to the county gaol.
At the Hartlepool Police-court, on the same day, a
sailor, .141:led Michael Collins, was charged, on remand,
the atttinpted murder of his wife on the previous
Friday shortly LcfOro nine o'clock on the morning of the
:7th inst., prisoner, who for some months had lived
separate firm his wife, went to the lodgings of the
Latter, in. Itt.h-passage, and without saying a word
poin a loaded pistol at her. She rushed upon
ill ill I. prevent his using it, when he said, "I only
wanted to frighten you." She placed her hand upon the
pistol, when it at once went off, and the charge of shot
?Altered her body and thighs, in which six shots lodged,
but not very dexp!y. hearing her screams, a lad called
.tainthorpe, living in the same house, ran to Mrs.
Collins's room just as the shot was fired, and a Mr.
Cooper, attracted by the noise of the shot, went in and
took the pistol from the prisoner, who, after leaving the
Lome, took another pistol to the house of a witness named
Carlyle. He made no -effort to escape, and vas quickly
aprellended by, Inspector Faint, to whom he stated that
tee fired the shot. The Bench committed him for trial at
the next assizes at Durham.

EXPEL

iIiIIENTS AT Sl-10.E13U1t, YINESS.
The experimental practice with the Montigny
louse in comparison with the shell and case amnuition
of the 9-pounder muzzle-loading and 12-pounder breech-
loading rifled field guns, was continued on Friday at Shoe-

buryness.
The following are the details of the actual practice; the
target being the same as on the previous day
Series 13. Montigny mitrailleuse at 400 yards, six
rounds, sharp file firing with horizontal motion, in two
minutes. Total hits, 178. Hors 'de combat, 73 cav=alry
or 84 infantry.
Series 14.—Field gun, 12-pounder breech-loader, firing
case shot, at 400 yards. Nine rounds in two minutes;
the tenth in the gun and would have been got off but for
the misfire of a friction tube. Total hits, 100. Hors de
combat, 72 cavalry, or 79 infantry.
Series 15.—Indian bronze field gun, 9-pounder, muzzle-
loader, firing case at 400 yards. Eleven rounds in two
minutes. Total hits, 236. Hors de combat, 77 cavalry,
or 86 infantry.
Series 16.—Indian bronze field gun, 9-pounder, muzzle-
loader, firing Shrapnel, with 5 seconds fuze cut to 1-6-
seconds, to test results in comparisen with case. Seven
rounds in two minutes. Total hits, 144. Hors de combat,
31 cavalry, or 66 infantry.
It is worthy of note that this is the first occasion on
which Shrapnel has been fired at so short a range. At the
commencement of this, series only one of the dummies
marked on the target remained unhit. This one was
struck during this practice by a splinter on the chest.
The second part of the pregramme, to repeat the pre-
vious series deliberately, in order to eliminate failures due
t...) premature or bad fuzes, to defects in mitrailleuse am-
munition, and to other unforeseen causes, was then
.corn-
ineneed. The following are the details :
Series 17.—Montigny mitrailleuse at 400 yardS. Five
rounds ; total of bullets thrown, 185. Firing 'deliberate
by :Jingle shots, one gunner sighting, one firing, one
serving the ammunition, one at the trail. Gun trained
horizontally during the practice. Time three minutes
fifty seconds. Total hits, 177, being within eight of
the full total thrown. Hors de combat, 83 cavalry, or 74
infantry.

Series 18.—Indian bronze field gun, 9-pounder, muzzle-
loader, firing case, at 400 yards. Five rounds in one minute
fourteen seconds. Each case contained 110 bullets ; total
bullets thrown, 550. Total hits on target, 110. Hors de
combat, 52 cavalry, or 59 infantry.
Series 19.—Field-gun, 12-pounder, breech-loader, firing
case at 400 yards. Seven rounds got off. Time not
taken. Two of the cases did not break up. Result of
the five good rounds on the target :—Total hits, 118.
Horse do combat, 47 cavalry or 48 infantry. Total bullets
thrown, 690, each case containino3B.
Series 20.—Montigny reitrailleoleat 300 yards; firing
by single shots, with accompanying horizontal training.
Five rounds in 2 minutes 55 seconds. Total bullets
thrown, 185. Total hits, 172.. Hors de combat, 92 cavalry
or 83 infantry. •
Series 21.—Montigny mitrailleuse at 600 yards. Firing
by single shots ending with a volley. Five rounds in 1
minute 55 seconds. Total bullets thrown, 185. Total hits,
107. Hors de combat, 49 cavalry, or 52 infantry.

Series 22.—Montigny mitrailleuse, at 800 yards.. Firing
by single shoes, ending with a volley. Five rounds in
1 minute 45 seconds. Total bullets thrown, 185. Total
hit. 3, 106. Hors de combat, 40 cavalry, or 45 infantry.
Series 23. Field gun, 12-pounder, breech-loader, firing
case a 300 yards. Six rounds got off in 1 minute 50
seconds ; one mt., breaking up. Say five good rounds in
1 minute 25 seconds. Total bullets thrown, 690. Total
hits, 138. Hors de combat 58 cavalry, or 59 infantry.
Series 24.—Indian bronze field gun, 9-pounder, muzzle-
loader, at 300 yards, firing case. Five rounds in 1 minute
5 seconds. Total bullets thrown, 550. Total hits, 162.
Hors de combat, 58 cavalry, or 64 infantry.
To these details we append, for the sake of complete-
ness,thoso of the 11th and 12th series of rapidity firing
not able to be given in our notice of the practice on
Thursday :

Series 11.—Indian bronze field gun, at 300 yards, firing
case. Ten rounds in two minutes. Total hits, 308. Hors
de combat, 75 cavalry, or 79 infantry.

Series 12. —Field gun, 12-pounder, breech-loader, firing
ease at 300 yards. Nine rounds in two minutes. Total
hits, 268. Hors de combat, 91 cavalry, or 111 infantry.
In the foregoing practice it will be clearly seen that
there are three elements of consideration—namely,
precision of fire with the mitrailleuse, giving a very high
percentage of effective hits out of the total number of
bullets thrown ; the superior destructive effects obtained
by the case cf the field guns out of a much larger
quantity of missiles ; and the greater rapidity with
which the field guns have been fired. This latter
element might present a different phase with better
ammunition. The cartridges are made of three

four coils of thick metal foil, covered over with
unlubricated paper, and often stick in the chambers. At
other times the burrs of the metal foil round the bullet, or
a bent cartridge, causes a crumpling up of the cartridge
case, preventing the closing of the breech-block. A great
deal of this obstruction woUld be prevented, if indeed it were
not entirely overcome, by the use of a properly constructed
very thin► metal cartridge case without any paper or other
coating. Enough has been done to show that the mit-
railleuse has valuable qualities for certain special pur-
poses, but that it cannot supersede the present use of
artillery in the field. It is, however, still "too early in
the trials to pronounce definitely upon its merits or de-
merits.

THE FRENCH EMBASST.—On Saturday the Marqu's
de Lavalette was left with only the Secretary of Embassy
to assist him. The Second Secretaries and Attach& all
quit London to join the levee en masse, which is calling
every Frenchmen of fighting capacity to arms.
AN EGREGIOUS BLUNDER.—" A. sad detail of

the combat," says the Moniteur, "has reached ug.
Duri_:g the hottest part of the battle, Marshal MacMahon
sent a telegram to General de Faillyurdering him to send
two ,"visions to Lambach to attack the Prussian army
from ~he flank. The telegraphic agents wrote 'to Kans-
baell,' which is in quite au opposite direction, and the
troops on arriving found nobody on the ground, to which
they had hastened full of ardour. Fate itself seemed
againat the French,"