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tridge paper, which is readily torn off by means of a piece of 

 red tape attached to it. Gunpowder thus confined will keep 

 for a long time, and the additional expense is so trifling as 

 to be scarcely worth a moment's consideration to the sports- 

 man. They are manufactured and sold by Messrs. Brough 

 and Moll, London. 



MR. PRINCE'S RIFLE OF 1859. 



During the present year Mr. Prince has been engaged in 

 bringing to perfection a new rifle, adapted chiefly to military 

 purposes, by which sixteen discharges may be effected in the 

 minute with the aid of a capping machine, and as long as the 

 reservoir of caps is unexhausted. There will always, how- 

 ever, be more or less escape at the breech, and on that account 

 I think it objectionable for sporting purposes. 



TERRY AND CALISHER'S RIFLE. 



In Mr. Princes specification of his patent for his sliding 

 rifle, an exact description of Terry's plan is embodied, and 

 any merit, therefore, which may be connected with it of 

 right belongs to the former, as his patent was completed 

 long before Terry promulgated the one which bears his name. 

 Mr. Prince, however, has abandoned his claim, because I 

 believe he considers the sliding barrel far superior to the 

 piston-breech, and in that opinion I cannot but concur, for 

 reasons which will be better understood after examining the 

 annexed illustrations. 



VIEW OF TERRY AND CAL1SHER S RIFLE. 



In order to prevent any imputation of carelessness or pre- 

 judice in reference to a rifle to whose principle I am opposed, 

 I prefer inserting the description given by Mr. Terry him- 

 self in the Illustrated Inventor, to any of my own : 



