A Big Gun

Artillery experimente wero latoly re aumed at Shoeburyness, near London, with the eighty-ton cannon. It was loaded with a charge of 420 pounda ; tlie projectile, a Palliser ball, weighed 1,700 ponnds, aud quitted the month of the gnu at the rate of 1,600 feef, in a seooud. The target was at adistanceof 120 yard, and was composed of a sheet of iron two feet tkiok, traversed by onken bennis of ttfteen iuches. It oost about $30,000. Tlie projectile buried itself seventeen inchefl in the iron, whioh Avas not thought satisfaetory, bilt, owing to the heavy expense of enoli shot, a sccmul trial was uot ïuade, Je.vnï Lind'h youngest ohild is only 8 moutliB old. Tlio groat songstress, noyf Nvn, Ooldumitii, i r,l Yfivi'H of figc,