The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-07
RUSSIA.
The National Acknowledgement Guns and Arr
tiiery Generally.

ttltery Generally.
From the London Globe July 1871
Ii II no secret now that ms whole Coatinent ~
arnng and has been ariping for The last four years,
night ana day. rhc Whole OF the Russian field artil
lery has been rearined with bronze rined guns, l2
poundsrs aad 1,-pounders. These weapons are now
being furnished With wrought.ron carriages as fast
should be glad to KNOW whether We are making any
wrouRntiron gun Carriages. The special commits ee
ON neld artillery equipment for India reported in ia
vor OF carriage OF this KIND long ago and
more recently another special committee re-
ported IN the same sense. What has been
IN full work, turning out carriages as fast
as possiblcf Nothing of the kind We have made
about dozen for further irlal-in other words, we
nave put OIL the evil day little longer Carriages
must oe paid for, ana Mr.. loves pockets have two
buttons on each dap. The Russians have just intro
duced number OF siege siXty.iOur FOUNDER bronze
rined guns on wrought iron carriages and Others
are beng manufactured day and night. they have,
iurin large number OF rned siege morlars, with
their carriages and stores all ready. Where are our
siege moriarsY They may be seen in the arsenal by
hundreds-useless old cast-iron. smoohbore lum
Der. We have not single riried mortar Ia the
service. The Russians have mounted eight-inch
and nlne.lnch rned guns on all their principal
sea coast defences, and their nlne-nch gun
caibfe. We should be glad to know how many
nlnench guns are mounted on our home defeDoes,
IN the forts for instance In the Isle of Wight. al
Hurst Castle, for the defence OF the ThamcsY The
Russians have introduced prismaiic powder for use
been IN m work or the last Sres Years turning a oat
this powder Have we any such powder2 Yes. we
have. Our "pebble' powder Il better than the Rus
sian prsmatic; 1t gives a higher velocity with less
strain. We have an admirable scientific committee
working out the question: and their Investigations
are looked forward 10 with the greatest interest
all over the world Some six months ago they
recommended the introduction Of this powder;
but new powder costs money and, we have
| The "wol," however, the way, may make u
| little stir. We should follow Russian example III
this matter, forthwith give an order To tho Walthan
factory for 20 900 barrels and another order the
trade for 20 900 more We believe Messrs. Curtis and
Harvey have been very successful with some expert
| mental pebble powder ana arc quite prepared ..
| supply II In any quantity. Is there any chance
| our doing this really sensible stroke OF business
| Not bit OF it, The betting at the military clubs yes
terday afternoon was seven to four against being
in tit state for war, Eve 10 four the French WIN
nng the first battle, and two TO against The pre-.
sent government keeping any OF is engagements.
The Russians have thoroughly organized all their ma
terrell OF reserve worked out the dIlcut question
supply OF breech-l0adng ammunition In the held and
Introduced an efficient pack animal TO accompany
infantry regiments. We should be glad TO know how
we stand Oh this question. The Snlder ~ "A good
neither is worth rush without cartridges. Suppose
where how are we to supply The Infantry with am.
mnnltion In the field is there any system al
AldershotY Are there not the contrary half "A.
dozen systemsf Tie Russians yet undecided
about their Mitrallleurs. they have \ number OF
machine guns in their possession, but the nua Pat.
tern s not decided on We have no machine gun 81
any pattern The TACT u.s. put IL in any shape we Ike
the plain truth must be admitted that we are moi
prepared !Or 1t.