Show ARMSTRONG armstrog gune GUN it beems seems that this gun of which we gave a short account some weeks since has fully realized tile the expect ions regarding its great force arid and practical utility the london correspondent of the blanches manchester ter guardian refers to it in it this ian lan language aage the government I 1 am told have given orders ordera f for or yoo yog of armstrongs guns guis of the performance of which aich I 1 daily dally bedr hear more and arid more won deifel ac accounts coonts think of a nine nich square target being hit in the third round at 1000 yards of GOO sharpner sharp nel shot put into two small target sone about thirty yards behind tl ti kotlier at a range of yards of a bolt sent through nine fet feet of oak planking at the same range mr armstrongs im include abolt a bolt holt to strike under water in which ricochet is prevented by cutting off the hemispherical head of the bo bolt boit I 1 t I 1 believe impound CS i pound bolts can be fired from an armstrongs cun gun little if at all exceeding cee ding in weight the 12 row in u se the leading up of the gun from the leiden casin the bolt is avoided by deep greetings ga on G n the cast metal core of the bolts bolt boit which hold the leaden casing tight and prevent its bel bet being i rg torn turn off in the passage of or the bolt from the gun this however howe vei can only be the case so long as thi tb interior is kept free from rust luat I 1 am told that colonel dixon one of our most experienced artillery offic erg who aho was 11 specially summoned from dublin the other day t to report on the armstrong gun has said that with six gix of these guns he could cowd have burned every ship in the harbor barbor of sevastopol and made the place absolutely untenable at present great is observed with ri regard 9 rd to the trial trials ls of the armstrong gun no civilians al allowed loed to be pre present Betit ac this is a ne new move on the part of the authorities for up to a very recent date no attempt was made to keep the thing secret the duc due dA and his suite were admitted not riot only to see the gun gon fired but to tire lire it and had bad every part of the machin machinery ery efy ac explained to them practical men all A tell you that it is quite idle at this day t to 0 attempt to keep such inventions secret I 1 have h uve beard it suggested that the best thin thing trie ane war office could do would othild be t to publish accurate drawings and descriptions clothe of the gun and to invite improvements en on it we have not yet reached the point of perfection in great gun guns but it seems to be admitted that armstrongs strongs it invention is the nearest approach to it yet made in ade in general principle it may be described as a giga gigantic breech liadi loading ng rifle |