The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-06
PRICE ONE GENT.


The Lords Of the Admiralty have given or.
ders for the building of ten line Of ba tile and
other steamers, TO be built at Chatham, in
addition 10 tAe iTon-plated frigates now in
progress. at Davenport, the Ocean a screw
ship, 81 guns, has been ordered to be con vert
I'd IN to an iron plated ship. Her Iength Is 215
fest.
II was stated at wooivrich on the 18th Of
June, at 3 dinner given by the Duke OF Cam
bridge 20 the Royal Artillery mess, in recogni-
tiou of his appointment IA Colonel OF the resi-
naeut, that .te.
4 series Of interesting Z perirnents last week
was made at Sboeburyness, with , view of
testing the eifecs OF heavy shot on IRON bat
taTies, which had been previously found 10
stand any amount OF pounding with the
len TIT j,rotecEiies from sixty eight pounier
smooth bore. The bst1erv was built np a. s
soiiti wall OF iron, tsn inches thick, on TEor-
nycrott's syetsIn D: doye-ailinS, and was
backed up ~ the strongest manner with
heavy timber, and hTaced with iron bars 1t
conveyed tho impression that, after having
stood tne hrunt Of SO much IriDg, the battery
might, for all practical purposes, be consider
ed indestractibie. The nrst shot WAS fired
from an Armstroog l10- -pouDder shunt gna,
with 2 proiectue weighing l2s lbs: and such
was the effect OF this mass combined with It's
velocity, thai at . distance of six hundred
yards II cleared out one OF the plates
| 10 inches IA thickness, and, at the same
time, carried away the back faoienings.-
The second snot was fred from an ordinary
i00 -pcunder Arms troag, with solid prOjec-
tile weighing ll0 los- This struck the bat
terry 4 another point, but without doing qual
damage with tae nrst shot, yet making 8
breach clean through the sntlrs structure,
and so weakening il as 10 insure lt5 en titc de-
,noiitioa by few more shots. One more suf-
feed Tor the purpose. and this, the third, was
directed 70 part 9fo-6in:y some stability 10
the sncerabrtnfant mass. tins MISS lie weigh
| ing again lilo IDS, WAS, a. before, fred from,
s. 19o-pounder ELn, and 1t brought the whole
battery. above the point struck, Immediately
| TO the ground.
| Club On June Sth, 10 Sir Hope Grant, Sir
Hope remarked shat he attributed no small
| share oT his SUCCESS 10 the Armstrong gun.
These weapons waTe, he said. exceedingly Pf-
fectiye. In one case Il gun which caused some
snnoynBcs was daea5iod, ans. ,hirteen 2aen
/. were found lying deed near Il. Another piece
belonging 10 the enemy was struck fiyo times
| Ia d very shoit p,rled. The Armstrong gan,
/ he said, was, in iact, the finest weapon ever
| invented.
| Though there IS some difference 0: opinion
/ in the BcaTd o. Admiralty, the preference Tor
! rfied guns appears 10 gain ground. The Army
! and Navy Gazette says:
] "fha Warrior and tho Black Prince are each
I 70 have on tha main deck, thirty four
| G3-pounoers % cWt,, smooth bores on the
! upper deck, two 10c powders, bow and staTr,
pivot guns, riited aud fopr 40 pounder- rittad.
! These guns vii. be provided with amman :
| ton IS follows The broadside guns sc rounds;
/ the pivot euns, 100 rounds. The arraament
/ OF the Achilles, now sbout 10 bs huilt at
! Chatham, is OF y more formidable character,
| viz forty tonr lJJ-pounders, rif1sd guns, four
4 30 FOUNDERS ditto, and .Wo % pcunder5
! smooth -scre1. These are entirely independ-
ent OF 20 pounoer Armstrong guns 9o1 toe
1 pinnaces ana launches. It will not surprise
US to hear that the 2r1naraeuts Of the Warrior
! and the BLACK Prince have again undargcns
| modification, and that a. larger proportion OF
| rIiel Gans are introduced but the above is
| as The order stands - present. The Duke OF
a, Wellington, iSl, IS ordered ID receive ntne
| Armstrong heavy guas, similar 10 those sup
| Piled to the Marlborough, as already noted In
| this Journal