The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-27 00:00:00

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The Government boing guaranteed against injuries at

proof.
The above table extends over the whole period
that has elapsed since the adoption of the gun, and
I proceed to make some comment on it.
I will, however, first speak of a gun said to have
burst, though bursting is not the proper term to give
to the fate which befell it. It had been used for
drill the night before, and left by mistake with the
drill or practice shot still in the muzzle. On the
next day the gun was loaded at the breech, and
fired in ignorance of the oversight, when the muzzle,
as a necessary consequence, was blown off at the
point where the practice shot rested. Both shots
were recovered, bruised and fractured by the colli-
sion, showing plainly how the fragments of the one
had acted as wedges to jam the other. These cir-
cumstances were notorious at Shoeburyness, where
the accident happened, and it is remarkable that
the occurrence should have transpired in the Me-
chanics's Magazine shorn of its explanation. As
the muzzle of any gun that human ingenuity ever
invented would have been blown off under similar
circumstances, I think I may fairly conclude that
the 40-pounder lost its muzzle without losing its
honour.

I pass to the guns entered in the table as returned
to Woolwich for repair. The number is taken from
a full official report dated the 20th inst., and now
before me. I see by it that the guns here entered
as returned for repair were not all of them guns
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Six of the 12 pounders were Chiva guns, and they
were condemned to receive ;rebrowning, cleaning,
and three new drip-pans! One 40-pounder gun
required only cutting or facing of the screw, and:so
forth. In fact, three, or, at the very utmost four
only of the guns were in such a state as would have
prevented their continued use in action, and one of
these was in that condition from having had its
screw injured in an experiment by the Ordnance
Select Committee to try the effect of firing the gun
without closing the breech.
A 25-pounder, injured at Sboeburyness, is not
included in this list, as it has not yet appeared at
Woolwich. This gun was well known to have a
cross flaw within six inches of the muzzle, and it
was a question whether it should be fired in that
condition; but since no accident worse than that
which happened could be anticipated, it was taken
for au experiment at Shoeburyness by the Ordnance
Select Cgamittee. At the third round the six
inches o uzzle fell off, but the practice was not
stopped, and as the gun shoots as well as ever the
committee have retained it for other experiments.
TI. I now come to the statistics regarding the

vent-pieces.
Before entering on this branch of my subject I
may remark generally that the vent-piece is not
expected to have the same durability as the gun. It
is separate from the gun, and contains the vent
or touch-hole, which is the most perishable part of
all ordnance. Every time the weapon is loaded
the vent-piece is removed; two of them are attached
to each gun, and if one is injured by casualty or
wear of the vent the other is ready to replace it.
A list of injured vent-pieces is, therefore, not a list
of accidents. The list below comprises not merely
broken vent-pieces—indeed, a wrought-iron vent-
piece has never yet been known to break—it is
made up of vent-pieces worn in long and honourable
service, as well as of those broken, bulged, cracked,
flawed, or rendered unserviceable in any other way.
At the same time I can afford to confess that I have
had some difficulty in determining the material and
pattern of the vent-pieces for my larger guns. I too
hastily deferred to the general preference for steel
over iron, and have since learnt, by vexatious expe-
rience, the uncertainty and unfitness of that metal,
as now manufactured, for purposes of the kind. It
will be seen by the table below that the injuries
there entered have chiefly occurred to steel. Where
otherwise, they have been confined, with one ex-
ception, to the 40-pounder; a proof that the fault
was one of pattern and not of principle. I have,
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