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common roads. It consists of a cupola, con- 

 structed of iron, armed with one heavy gun, 

 but large enough to hold, beside the gunners, 

 ten riflemen armed with breech-loaders. He 

 sent the model to Lord Palmerston at Eroad- 

 lands, who passed it on, with the expression 

 of his high approbation, to the War Office. 

 Then it was examined in the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment ; and Mr. Smith soon after had a letter, 

 stating that the battery was a most decided 

 novelty, but that circumstances did not call for 

 its adoption at present. The model was after- 

 wards, by Her Majesty's command, taken to 

 Osborne for her inspection, and it has since 

 been exhibited in the Hampshire Loan Collec- 

 tion at Southampton in August 1866, where it 

 excited much attention. The reader will gain 

 some idea of what the locomotive battery is 

 like from the accompanying sketch. Its size 

 is proposed to be 12ft. high, 18ft. wide, 18ft. 

 long, which would allow it to move along any 

 ordinary road by means of Boy dell's endless 



