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Scinde Horse. With one of his double rifles, forty 

 bore, and 7?; lbs. in weight, a bull's-eye three inches 

 in diameter has been struck thii-teen times in eighteen 

 shots, at a hundred yards, firing right and left bar- 

 rels alternately, and the other shots were all within 

 four inches from the centre. At three hundred 

 yards, bullet after bullet was put in the area of a 

 foot square, which is almost as close shooting as can 

 be got out of a double rifle. For gi'cat precision at 

 long distances, single ones must be used; as in 

 every double rifle, where one sight has to serve, the 

 barrels must converge, consequently the lines of tra- 

 jectory must cross at some point, and although up 

 to five hundred yards the lateral deflection may not 

 be very material, they can never exhibit the precision 

 of single barrels at long distances. 



Mr Westley Eichards, of Birmingham, has in- 

 vented a breech-loader that has been highly approved 

 of by the authorities, and it is a most excellent weapon 

 either for mihtary or sporting purposes, although 

 the system of Messrs Terry and Calisher has been 

 preferred ; for, by order of the Secretary of State 

 for War, a contract has been entered into with that 

 firm for the immediate supply of their carbines for 

 the use of several cavalry regiments. The T'tmes^ 

 speaking of its great advantages over the old system, 

 says : — " The Small-arms Committee have sub- 

 mitted the carbine to the severest tests, making a 

 most favourable report on its peculiar advantages, 

 and hence its adoption in the army. Only some 



