Show NEW inventions A london letter of the august published in the N Y commercial advertiser has the following items A valuable invention has been made in belgium it is destined to effect as great a reform in tile the manufacture malu mi facture of linen cloths claths as th steam loom has made in that of woollens it is nothing less thin a steam loom for linen fabrics ric all ili the ingenuity and per sever seveT nce of manufacturers have app i tested to invent a machine machino of t h s kind but the fabrics have bopa u uniformly so poor that the rn ahmes mh avies mes have havo been thrown away and aad manual I 1 exor ilor lor again resorted t 0 the dit dill 1 alty auy has been rem i I 1 by the thi th scientific skill of a 1 i eng ricer A model of his yi Y i chine hine with specimens of h acs ics h in ii j been boon exhibited at ta 1 fratgi drat jr at Gi G it the cloths claths are s sui sul sud td t rival iii ia firmness fineness and F c louthi the best of those rii ril ia 1 by han 1 loon ifon if on further trial it friall laii be boand practicable on alfy alry scale a revolution will a ja cs be c looted I 1 ted bcd in iu the linen i lid iid id atry of bl gium which will hive rul ful influence on the pol il condition caloa of the country c cne cue rie hilf h of the population of fland s iving 1 ving i 11 i oae cac 0 ic way or another c 01 i the pr profits fits of that industry A I 1 lite ite implement in the mus hc let het t will cert wily meliorate greatly 0 art at t of war v ir this has been mad in pru i and tile the secret is strictly snarled by the government I 1 nobody is is permitted to exannie exan eail eari e all ati rie ie the work walk in the manu fv tobies and the tiie soldiers ers eis are arc for bi I 1 ii to sh vr their muskets bit rit B it 01 tiso tise else eise so pi aut potions ions lons arc are all use 1 t ta I 1 10 will be tit tiby il 1 yr 1 knowl llo tio wa aad iid adopted by other r c intriere in tries trier captain stone of th k i anca army now in in sive S we d i is I 1 believe in possession of the s cret tet iet the united states off r d to sell to mexico her flint 1 c ils lis i s slie she will son soon be able I 1 hope to sell her percussion ones from what I 1 have seen of the new gun as well as from what I 1 have heard I 1 can say a few words to satisfy in part the curiosity of our officers and gun makers tile the musket has no lock and is is loaded at the stock end of the b barrel ar the ball is long iona and cone shaped rounded at t the hc big end the barrel is slightly rifled but the grooves are perfectly straight and not spiral as in ir the american gun the ball is consequently thrown a much greater distance none of the force of tile the powder being wasted in giving it a useless ro rotary tar y motion the common charge is one half of that used in in the percussion gun and is said to carry the ball to its mark nine hundred yards none of the powder is wasted the fire being communicated from the side of the barrel and not from the breech this is effected by an ingenious contrivance the part of the cartridge next the ball is filled with an explosive substance similar to that in a percussion cap this is made to explode by the contact of a piece of steel about the length of an eight penny nail which passes from the outside of the barrel through the cartridge the gun is called tile the nail firer it can be discharged by a common soldier eight times in a minute and need not be taken from the shoulder to be reloaded the best soldier cannot discharge the percussion gun more than three or r four times in a minute and in battle an officer cannot count on more than one discharge irl ill in that time another advantage of the prussian gun is that the distance to which it carries enables a force to fire some or thirty times before an enemy armed with the percussion musket can get within shooting distance the efficacy of tile the prussian troops is thus doubled the prussian army might be reduced to half its present numbers to tile the great delight of every body except the monarch and his im immediate advisers flo fio mo alo republican |