The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-15 00:00:00

TILL:

In accordance with divisional orders issued by
the Commandant of the Chatham division of Royal
Marine Light Infantry, the whole of the officers
and men of the battalion now at head-quarters
were on Saturday morning paraded at 9 o'clock,
under the command of Lieut.-Col. W. H. March,
for thepurpose of hearing read the proceedings of
a district court-martial, which recently assembled
at Chatham for the trial of a bandsman, named
Henry Davis, belonging to the Royal Marines, on
a charge of disgraceful conduct in having de-
serted from 'head-quarters and subsequently en-
listed into the 17th Lancers, thereby defrauding
the Government of the usual bounty paid to cavalry
recruits, and also with disposing of two musical
instruments belonging to the band. These facts
were proved before the court-martial by the offi-
cers from the division and also the witnesses from
the 17th Lancers, and it was also elicited that the
prisoner had before this occurrence made away
with an instrument belonging to the Marine band,
for which offence he underwent a term of imprison-
ment. The judgment of the court-martial was read
in the presence of the entire battalion, the prisoner,
who wore the uniform of the 17th Lancers, being
sentenced to be branded on the breast with the
letter "D," to be imprisoned for 168 days in Fort
Clarence Military Prison, and also to be placed
under stoppages, until the whole sum of which he
defrauded the War-office is made good. Imme-
diately the sentence had been read the prisoner was
removed in charge of an escort to the military
prison at Rochester to undergo his term of impri-
sonment. .

Some experiments have 'been made at Chatham
in the presence of a number of the officers belong-
ing to that garrison for the purpose of testing the
merits of a new breech-loading cannon, which has
been invented by Armourer-Sergeant R.'Parry, of
the 3d battalion. The invention has several ad-
vantages over many of the breech-loading cannons
which have hitherto been brought under notice, not
the least of which are the great rapidity with which
it can be loaded and fired, the ease -with which it
can be handled, and the accuracy of aim to be ob-
tained. 1 On the first occasion of the experiments
taking place, the gun invented by Sergeant 'Parry
was tested, with the view of showing at what dis-
tance the charge would take effect. Although the
model is only four inches long from the breech, the
gun, it was found, did execution at 100 yards, and
out of the 100 rounds fired not one missed. On the
second occasion of the experiments 50 rounds were
fired in only five minutes, the gun being loaded and
fired at the rate of 10 rounds per minute, the shots
taking effect at 50 yards. The invention is highly
approved by the officers before whom it has been
tried, and a very favourable report of it will be
made to the authorities at the War-office. It is
stated by the inventor that the large guns on board
vessels of war can be made to fire 10 rounds per
minute by the same principle.

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