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The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce adopted a. memorial on the 17th, expressing general approval. of the Budget and the treaty, but regretting that reciprocal arrangements had not been made in respect to shipping. There was some opposition, but it was from a minority. The Mercantile Marine Association, passed a resolution strongly. condemning the third ar- ticle of the treaty.
The Worcestershire hop-planters, object to the reduction of the duty. The principles of free-trade do not gory to hop-growing. They desire that any alteration should be pro-rata. They. would, prefer an entire abolition of the duty to the' proposedequalization of the duty.
A large meeting was held in. Manchester on Tuesday, the Mayor in the chair, to support the budget. Among the Speakers were Mr. James
Heywood, Sir support Armitage, Alderman Watkins, Mr. S. Fender, Mr. E. W. Watkin, and a host of local magnates. The speakers spoke of the budget in strong terms of eulogy. The Town Council has adopted a petition in favour of the budget. Votes of thanks to Mr. Cobden were adopted.
The Southampton Chamber of Commerce has petitioned in favour of the. treaty, but desires modification in the article relating to shipping. They also approve the Budget, but regret that the same amount of tax is. not to be levied on. income as on realized property.
A meeting at Manchester disapproves of the charges on bonding opera- times.
A. public meeting, at Birmingham, the Mayor presiding, firmly sup- ported the Budget ;. with the reservation against our increase of the In- come-tax without an adjustment of its incidence.
The Norwich Musical Festival will be held in the third week of Sep- tember. Among the vocalists whose services have been secured, are Madame Clara Novello, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Santley, and engage- ments have also been offered to Miss- Dolby, Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, and Mr. Wilbye Cooper.
The ancient town of Appleby was enlivened on Tuesday by a very novel sight. On Monday afternoon, the commission was opened, and on Tuesday their Lordships, Mr. Justice Blackburn and Mr. Justice Hill, were, at the instance of Mr. Matthew Benson Harrison the High Sheriff, conducted to the Assize Courts by the usual officers and servants of that functionary, but on this OCC1181011 the ordinary routine costume was ex-. changed for the dress worn in the time of Charles I.— " The men appeared dressed in leathern doublets with blue velvet sleeves slashed with white silk, blue velvet breeches, high buff buckskin turnover boots, Sombrero hats.buttoned up at one side and ornamented each with a long blue and.white feather, and crossbelts with large buckles suspending old-fashioned large handled swords ; a red sash round the waist completed their costume. The trumpeters wore gray hats looped up ; in other res- pects, the same dress. The javelins also were very formidable, antique- looking weapons. Most of the men were handsome, tall young fellows ; and as decked out, as they marched before the judges down the old-fashioned street of the town on a bright frosty morning, the tops of their javelins glit- tering in the sunshine and the gay long feathers in their hats waving in the wind,.they carried, back the mind to the days of the cavaliers, and certainly formed a very picturesque-and, in these days of unadorned utility in dress, a very unwsualtaglit.'
Some accounts of the experiments with Mr. Whitworth's breech- loading cannon at Southport have been published. The guns employed were a 3-pounder, a 12-pounder, and an 80-pounder. The 3-pounder is 6 feet long,. weighs 208-lbs., the bore is' l inches, the pitch, one in 3 feet 4 inches. The 12-pounder is 7 feet 9 inches long, weighs 8 cwt., the bore is 3i; inches, the pitch, one in 5 feet. The 80-pounder is 9 feet 10 inches long, weighs 4 tons, the bore is 5 inches, the pitch one in Sleet 4 inches. The results of the experiments were as follows.
The 3-pounder fired five times, at. an elevation of 35 degrees, attained the maximum range of 9688 yards ; at an elevation of 33 degrees, 9547 yards ; at the elevation of 20 degrees, at which it was fired four times tha greatest range was 7073 yards,.and at 10 degrees elevation, fired four times, 4281 yards. The charge of powder used in each experiment was the same, 8 oz. The divergence from the true line at a range of 7000 yards waa only 221 yards to the right.
The 12-pounder, fired. five times at an angle of 5 degrees, ranged at its greatest 2342 yards, and at 10 degrees, 4.120 yards. The charges of powder were uniformly the same, 111b. The greatest deviation from the line was 16 yards. The best shot at the elevation of 10 degrees ranged nearly 21 miles ;, and the second shot at 5 degrees, was on the line.
The 80-pounder, fired twice at 5 degrees, ranged 2604 yards ; and at 10 degrees, at which elevation it was also fired twice 4730: the same weight of powder in each case, 121b.; the. greatest deviation from the line being 6 yards to the right.
The results of further experiments were as follows—The 12-pounder, charged with Lilb. of powder, fixed at an elevation of 7 degrees—the same weight and elevation as had been chosen for the Armstrong gun— and fired four times, ranged; at its maximum, 3084 yards. The greatest deflection. was 11 to the right, in the second shot ; the third shot was on the line. Fired four times with a different quality of powder, same weight, the greatest range was 3098 yards, the greatest deflection 11. The first and fourth shots were on the line. Some good firing took place with the 3-pounder, at an elevation of 20 degrees ; but the 80-pounder was not tried. Mr. Whitworth does not intend to test it further until he makes a trial for the Government on a 4-inch iron-plate. Such a plate has been pierced at 250 yards ;he hopes with his gun to pierce it at 600.
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