The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

THE „filmy.

A netachment of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade,
consisting of 1 officer and 30 men, are under orders
to proceed from Whichester to join the service com-
panies at Malta.
The improved breech-loadin by Mr. "parry, cannon, invented
arry, the armourer of the 3d battalion
at Chatham garrison, having been submitted, from
time to time, to a series of trials, with the
view of testing its efficacy, all with the most satis-
factory results, the authorities have been com-
municated with in order to enable the inventor to
ascertain whether it is the intention of the Go-
vernment to take up the invention and appoint a
commission to superintend a succession of trials
with the gun, in order that its superiority
over all other breech-loading cannons, now in use
may be determined. Since the former accounts of
the performances of this new weapon appeared in
The Sun the inventor has effected another impor-
tant improvement in it, which has the result of
making the discharges even more rapid than before,
the gun being now capable of discharging, with
ease, 20 rounds per minute. This improvement is
effected by. a beautifully contrived lever, placed on
the side of the breech, which by one simple move-
ment raises the cock of the gun and opens the
breech ; the reverse movement entirely closing the
breech, cutting the cartridge used, priming the
nipple, and firing. the gun, all instantaneously—the
effect of which is that the cannon may now be dis-
charged as rapidly as the charges can be inserted in
the breech, as two simple movements are now all
gun for being fired
that is necessary to prepare the
and. actually discharging it. The inventor has also
effected an improvement in theballs used for breech
loading guns, for which he has alied for a.patent.
This improvement consists in themeanner of coating
the halls, the present lead and tin coating with
which balls have hitherto been covered leaving a
deposit in the gun which necessitates that the bore
should be cleaned out after every few rounds have
been fired, the out
gun, for instance, re-
quiring 'Tonging after about every dozen rounds,
and occasionally more frequently. To obviate this
Mr. Warry has inven a chemical composition
which he applies to theyspherical balls used by him,
and which answers its Ilta.pose
so
satisfactorily that
after 50 rounds were fired the other day with these
slightest fouling in the gun
balls so coated not the
could be detected,. the breech, in consequence of the
admitted each time it was loaded,
current of air
remaining as cool as at the commencement, while
no expansion could be perceived. The inventor also
states that by using his method a dozen balls can
be coated for the expense now incurred in coating
one on the old principle. Snhtiooundlitrhcovernment
consent to take up
bth
pared to apply his reeel.enhv-eloading Principle to tiBoParne;
of the metal guns now in use, which, at a compari-
tively small outlay, can be so adapted. It is a
remarkable circumstance in connection with this in-
vention that shortly
after the account of this wea-
pon first appeared the inventor was sawndajotffedereodn the b y
the agent of a foreign Government,
most handsome terms to transfer his invention to
that Government, or part with the model of his gun,
both of which offersalilor.wwing ariTan,foirnp
obvious
of hisreasons,
declined, not even
model.