The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-19 00:00:00

M. THE LOCK.

N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE.
Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without
aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table.
o. ACCURACY WREN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST.
The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more
than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500,
and Gin. at 300.

The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty
shots each.

P. TRAJECTORY.
Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1
deg. 30 min.

Q. FOULING.
The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent.
at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds.

It. PENETRATION.
The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than
that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle—
viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48
hours in water.

Distance 30 yards.
s. LUBRICATION.
Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant
may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought
necessary by the competitor. _ .

- 111.
No arms will be received without the usual proof marks.
Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed,
stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a
finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu-
nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War
Office, Pall-mall," on or before the Nth March, 1867.
The specifications and specimen arms will be considered
by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem-
bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for
War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds,
select and recommend for further trial such of the systems
as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all
such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to
warrant their being included in the competition, the con-
ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. _

Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish
for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity
to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am-
munition per arm, within four months after date of de-
mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the
committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em-
ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted
competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of
the supply of ammunition required.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the
arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered
by the committee to be the best submitted.
A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at-
taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu-
lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism.
A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua-
lities which will be principally taken into consideration in
awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power
of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in
various climates, and general serviceability.
The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but
as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which
the cartridge is associated, they will not bo so much con-
sidered as those above-mentioned.
It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances
will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but
such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be
given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the
service.
Iv
MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.
Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re-
ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
loading Rifles. They must not be loss in length than 48
inches, including the stock.
The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 9flb. ex-
clusive of the charges in the magazine.
It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a
bayonet.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best
Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above
conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at
present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions
to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted.
Those Magazine orßepeating Arms, which are accepted
for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each.
This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per
arm.

The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious
novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be
adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment,
and that the name of the individual with whom it origi-
nates shall be recorded in connection with it.
if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted
into the service, it will bear the inventor's name.
J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director
of Ordnance.
War Office, Oct. 22,1866.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
!ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years.
The new-home the Committee wish to form would be for
voung girls, almost children, from the ago of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 95, Queen •street. Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-etreet.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Hall-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Th!s Hospital, foundel in the year 1828, the first to estab-
gnetanrumber of in-patients, and, in
estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
suarlderable period averaged between
the delay and difficulty of G.2..eovneynnirocoobnrestrr'iboourfdtiaetortnees,niandsawndeht:Toaly:idethsee.-
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The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Janson, and Co., Abehurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne,
and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet
and Co., Berners-street ; and at• the Hospital. from to till 5.
STANFORD BMITTi, Secretary.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CLULDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
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nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager ex.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
fßroremakfalalata, aregiven gratuitously every week. The poor
Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
been
nt
.fral.i,7odo more will. IT required.
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide, mbourte
taompalcecoaraccpolimshmotdhae-
Bwi°eosnriirdea42s ap7uorom7riodhfianasgt shelter for the homeless, this year it
is prop sod, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? Tho smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. V,
Finsbury-circus, E.Q.

Reform Demonstration at Edinburgh.

EDINBURGH, Saturday Evening.

The working classes to-day enjoyed a holyday in
the name if not in the cause of Reform. The pre-
parations for a grand display had been going on for
weeks, and the demonstration turned out a very
successful one in the most important points—good
weather and numbers. Had the lashing rains of
yesterday, by any unhappy fortune, occurred to-day
instead, the display would have been ruined, and
the sick list of the community would have been grie-
vously lengthened. As it happened, however, the
morning was clear, crisp, and frosty, with the ther-
mometer several degrees below freezing, and the
ground bore an icy crust as hard as a rock. The
day was fortunately also sunny, and the banners
and devices as they gathered, on Bruntisfield Links
had a showy and glittering appearance. The ad-
joining towns had been invited to join in the de-
monstration, and accordingly at an early hour seve-
ral thousand men marched up from Leith, while the
trains brought in large provincial accessions. Brun-
tisfield Links is the common of the ancient borough,
and offered a commodious muster-ground—sufficient
indeed for 60,000 or 100,000 men had they been
there. By 10 o'clock nearly all the trades had ar-
rived, headed by their bands or pipers, and about an
hour was spent in the difficult task of marshalling,
which was, all things considered, very successfully
performed. There was a large number of spectators
assembled on the muster-ground, but the principal
part of the intending sightseers had taken up their
places in the line of streets—about three miles--

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PRICF 4d.
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which the procession had to traverse. It was about
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a quarter-past 11 that the head of the procession
started from Barclay Church, led by the Edinburgh
and Leith carters mounted. The route was by Lo-
thian-road, Charlotte-square, West George-street,
South Ila.nover-street, East Princes''-street, North-
bridge, the lower part of High-street, and Canon-
gate, to the Queen's-park, which the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests had freely granted as the place
of meeting. The head of the procession reached
the Register-house a minute or two after 12, and an
hour and five minutes elapsed before the rear was
brought up. In Princes'-street and North-bridge
there was an immense number of spectators, repro •
seating all classes of the community, while in the
lower part of lligh-street and Canongate there
was a dense mass, chiefly of the lower ranks.
The procession marched very quickly, the pace be-
ing at least three and a half miles an hour, and by
the time the head of it reached the Queen's...park
the year was only leaving the Links. The line
was, on the whole, pretty compact, and good
order , was observed both by processionists and
spectators. Occasionally loud cheers were given by
men and lads elated, by the display, the concourse
of spectators, and the pleasure of the rapid walk.
Like most of the Reform demonstrations, that of
to-day was chiefly remarkable as a holyday turn-
out. All the stock flags and devices used on occa-
sions of display were brought out, and the occasion
had, of course, stimulated very greatly the produc-
tion of new ones. Some of the Reform flags of 1832
once more appeared to viewing wereduly labelled,
that all might know of their former service in the
cause. A good many Glasgow flags were seen,
having evidently been borrowed from the western
city. Among the political squibs we observed " the
Elcho Challenge Shield for 1865," field sable sur-
mounted by death's head and cross-bones, and
trimmed with crape and white muslin. A full-sized
straw effigy, with wax head and good wig, and
wearing straw coat and top boots, was carried, bear-
ing the inscription, " Our County Member." A
Haddington banner bore the words "There's hope
for Had'ton yet," with three asses' heads, respec-
tively titled E'cho, M.P., Lam Laing, and Bob Low,
with the line below " The happy and increasing
1 family of the Adulumites." But it was evidently
found easier to represent the Cave than to spell its
name, various spellings of which were to be found
in the course•of the procession, while one of the
trades claimed " manhood sufferage," another
" vote by ballet," and another patriotically en-
twined a dedication to " the rose, thistle, and sham-
rack." Some of the trades' mottoes had an appro-
priate reference to their manner of doing the Reform
work. The brushmakers proposed to make " a
clean sweep of the Cave ;" the wheelwrights to " put
their shoulders to the wheel ;" the bookbinders to
"forward" and " finish" the work of Reform ; the
engineers resolved " to keep the steam up ;" the
shoemakers held that there was " nothing like lea-
ther" if the Constitution was to wear ; the cabinet-
makers thought they should be the choosers of the
Queen's Government, and the painters maintained
that the edifice of the State could not be com-
pleted without a touch from the decorators. One
trade exhibited the rather Conservative motto,
" Tak' tent in time," but the great majority
recommended, not caution, but action, and unity
was specially enforced by mottoes and symbols.
Mr. Bright's name was adopted •by nearly every
trade, and there were occasional references to Russell,
Gladstone, Mill, and other friends of the popular
claims. Hr. Lowe came in for the usual farrago of
abuse, sarcarm, and small wit, and " Lowe's loaf"
was represented somewhat absurdly by a halfpenny
roll, while Mr. Bright's was handicapped by several
pounds extra weight. One banner bore the repre-
sentation of a furnace, and the inscription, " While
Bright burns the fire of Reform we will not fear
the Low." A great many pretty trade models, some
of them in mechanical action, were exhibited ; and
the jewellers, glass-blowers, upholsterers, carvers,
cabinetmakers, and others, each made a very attrac-
tive display.

The length of the procession made it, however,
very tiresome. An hour's shivering in the cold was
a pretty severe tax on the patience of most of the
spectators, and there was rather an " ugly rush" to
the public-houses before the procession got well out
of the Canongate.

Owing to the coldness of the weather the meeting
in the Queen's Park was not so well attended as it
would probably otherwise have been. Curiosity in
the affair was undoubtedly weakened by the chill in
the atmosphere. It is thought, however, that 40,000
mustered in the park behind Ifolyrood, a few hun-
dreds being within earshot of the platform, while
the thousands were well content to echo the cheers,
to survey the scene, and have a rest and a chat after
their hasty march. At each of the four platforms
the following resolutions were moved and seconded in
sensibly short speeches, and carried by acclamation :
That this meeting protests against the present system
of representation, whereby the people are amenable to laws
in the making of which they have no voice, as being op-
posed to justice and to the spirit of the constitution of this
country, and declares that no Reform Bill can be accepted
as a permanent settlement of the question unless it in-
cludes registered residential manhood suffrage, protected
by the ballot.

That this meeting awards its heartfelt thanks to Earl
Russell, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, John Bright,
John Stuart Mill, Professor Fawcett, M.P., Mr. W. 0.
Forster, M.P., and all other true friends of Reform, for their
patriotism in defence of the rights of the people in the late
session of Parliament.

That a petition, founded on the above resolutions, be
drawn up and signed by the chairman of this meeting, and
by the Executive Committee, and transmitted to Mr. Dun-
can M‘Laren, M.P., for presentation; and that Mr. James
Moncreiff, M.P., be requested to support the prayer of the
same in the next session of Parliament.
In the evening a meeting was held in the Corn-
exchange for the purpose of confirming the resolu-
tions passed at the day meeting. About 2,500 tickets
were distributed. The chair was occupied by Coun-
cillor Fyfe, who congratulated the meeting on
the magnificent demonstration of the day—a demon-
stratiun so orderly, and displaying so much inge-
nuity and taste, and embodying so much intellec-
tual and moral power, and unlike the demonstration
which took place before the Reform Act of 1832,
unmarked by threats of violence, but imbued
might.
with
t
the conviction that right would triumph overm
Apologies were intimated from Mr. W. E
I.i.Baxter,
M.P., Mr. Graham, M.P., Mr. Dalgishf
Potter, M.P., Mr. Young,
Moncreiff,
M.P., and Mr. M. Dunlop, M.P.
'As
lr.verse to
in his letter, stated that while lre:
especially ono
re-
fuse any request of his fellow-citizens, M.P., Mr.i Moncreiff,
it desirable in the
so courteously made, he thoughttrie
example of other
present instance to followel
abstaining tt ahien ing f r
questionom
members of the late Goveirnaggttioinn
Considering the
taking part in any
of Reform.
in
no
one could be surprised that
general agitation
tone of the de(
ing the last sessionl,dn
give
debatesses and
House of Commons dur-
ing and tempe
working men
xoplHir ei ; sio ownn to
opinionstheir
were
ewr se ainndnowidsahnes-
the 15 years he
on that
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jeceoacirlts;el:
ger o
prepared for the extension of
ruction, as during
had sat in Parliament he had not only supported
every general measure
suffrage, the
but he had introduced into the House
of Commons the bills prepared by successive Libe-
ral Administrations, from 1852 downwards, for the
extension of the suffrage in Scotland ; but he disa-
greed with the proposal on this subject of the Re-
form League, and which he understood to be embo
died in the resolutions.

Mr. Murray Dunlop excused his attendance on
the ground of health. His presence, however, was not
required to give assurance of his hearty zeal in the
Reform movement, and though he classed himself
among moderate reformers, and had never become
reconciled to the ballot, and preferred a gradual to
a sudden and violent extension of the franchise, he
should have been thankful if the Tories and exclusive
Whigs had seen fit to accept the very restricted mea-
sure of Reform proposed by the late Government.