A New and Deadly Projectile.
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Warry, of the Royal Engineers, has invented a gun which throws that of Sir William Armstrong into the shade. The new gun, like its rival, is a breech-loader, rifled, and, as long as it is supplied with ammunition, it will continue to pour forth a torrent of shot, shell or case, at the rate of one discharge every three seconds, or 1,200 rounds per hour. A lever of very simple construction, which by one movement, and almost at the same time instant, seizes the cartridge, cuts it, applies the priming to the nipple, hermetically closes the breach, and fires the discharge. In precision it equals any gun that has yet been tried, and it has this great advantage over Sir William Armstrong's that, whereas his being made of wrought iron, is necessarily very expensive, Warry's invention can be applied to all our existing ordnance of whatever calibre, and at a comparatively very trifling cost; a very important fact, considering that there are some 15,000 guns in the British Navy.—The Warry gun was tried at Chatham with the terrific missiles invented by Captain Norton, and charged with his "fire." The result left but one impression on the minds of the spectators, and that was that naval warfare, as heretofore conducted must be deemed at an end.—Alemakee Herald.