Show aei EGLAND 11 t aboud tile middle middie bouat month mouth same experiments were made at azor ness nes sih I 1 ich tin england foi for ule ble the p u r p e tes testing t 1 n t 9 both targets and projectiles cefis cumis which have havo ha v c some iome interest in connection with the recent trial of the ther theE odman rodman guns at fortress monroe the condou london times rimes of the sept contains the tha fo following accounts sinthe instance frince one p f the target was made wilh with with no less than eight inch iron with the tho warrior backing of IS 18 inches of teak with an inner inder skin of wrought iron three thice quarters of an inch thick the whole being strengthened with girder girden ribs of wrought iron of most powerful description to tp this target ige ime were two wings each of which though nearly vertical ll 11 in position 1 sloped at an ail angle angie of about CO 60 degrees all the plates vere were of bf the best quality of rolled iron and were fastened with double the tho usual number 0 of f the bolts A stronger st ron C iyer ryer t target arge ange with the ex exception of that th at of mr chalmers hns has probably never been beep tried at Sho S ebury there is in fact no vessel in the british service now carrying in eight inch armor plates I 1 and the built bulit up 12 inch plates of the american monitors are weaker beyond all com corn d p parison irison than the resistance which a it i sin single lc solid S inch inoh plate will offer onn er the experiments were made to ascertain the best forna forra bf shall for fot penetrating and I 1 destruct destructive ive lVe effect and also algo the relative value for such results of steel as ascom com pare par parc q d w th the pall rall r chilled metal all were c fl fired c irom tha 9 londi loading rig fig wrought iron lion guu uri gun 1 the tha rhe first fired firtha steel shot but the damage by thes these was ewas not of dany any great effect 1 the shots barely burying themselves thenis elVes or indenting it os lightly slightly with the thet haills er model s sheil bell constructed of chilled met meta alithe lAhe most surprising results were obtained one of these the last of then the kind hid bid fired went elean clean through every overy everything thin g plate backing back and inner skin ans and lodged itself mer after exploding in some timber h bout 20 feet behind the target anything more efu crushing shing than the shock of zif this projectile it would bo be difficult to conceive for its Itt truck full upon tihon one of the strongest yer lical parts of the target and tore its way through as if only opposed by a timber screen another penetrated no less than 10 19 lind and a naif half bulging anil and injuring the backing bicking most seriously whilo a third fired at the inclined ipg af pf the target pene 7 niches inches and a half making a hole in the iron 13 inches iong long b by 10 wide A fourth went nearly through and ind remained im bedded efta to tor a dep depth detthof of 13 12 inches and a half and ani ank some consumed cons cong umed before this thib last could be worked bedout out with a crowbar crow bar the tho chilled shot wa was equally successful with we tiie shell the tiie first aimed almed at the incline of tile the target struck upon its lis vertical part and penetrated comple compie completely t ely oly through the eight inch irich plate smashing smas h ing one of the powerful ribs behind I 1 ita t second on tile the incline and t just near the comparatively t i v 0 ly blight mar mark made by mr firth eiith tore t 0 r e through th T engh the plato plate to the depth of 7 inches and a half some shot denigri cd ed by the ordnance select Committe committee ei having a screwed on base and made of mr nir firths births steel were next tried but their results though good were co comparatively m ively insignificant to td those a achieved by tub shot and shell no one succeeded in getting in aa as deep ly as the chilled metal and not one of any kind whatever even oven went hairway halfway wit vit through tigh the target in fact the importance of major Palli sers invention ican can scarcely be overrated over rated the target tried yesterday was as wo we have said stronger than the broadside of any ship afloat yet it was wads pierced and broken up bip by these projectiles when all others failed the strongest built armor ship in the tho british navy is the bell on yet a month ago major majon pal alser sent hf his shot and shell through the section representing her at Sho ebury with as much munh ease case as it broke through the pond ponderous de dences fences yesterday |