THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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3. Having then in general terms described the new artillery, we will 
compare it with the service artillery, and with that of divers European 
powers. Without entering into minute details we will once more repeat, 
before entering into the question, that it results from the experiments which 
have been carried out that a round from the new gun has a greater effect 
than one from the old gun, and at least as great an effect as one from any 
one of the guns, actual or possible, of Foreign powers, according to the 
principles which are now admitted to obtain. 
In the second place, working the new gun is much more simple than 
that of any other gun whatever; hence it requires fewer men than does 
the service artillery, and not more than are employed by all Foreign 
artilleries; thus this new artillery has the advantage, which may be said to 
be immense, of affording superior power with a smaller development of 
means. 
Admitted the greater effect of one round of this artillery, we will give 
the reader the few figures following in support of what we have above 
stated 
New 
Italian. 
Service 
Italian. 
British. 
French. 
Prussian. 
Austrian. 
Guns. 
Wagons . 
Men. 
Horses . 
Rounds carried per piece 
Infantry cartridges 1 
carried per battery ) *" 
Weight drawn ) . 
l>y gun-team J cwt . 
12 
30 
195 
154 
260 
none * 
19-7 
6 
21 
185 
138 
210 
84,000 
39-4 
6 
31 
220 
244 
214 
102,960 
39-4 
6 
30 
198 
164 
240 
75,600 
25-6 to 
27-6 
6 
16 
152 
125 
140 
none * 
30-5 
35-9 
8 
23 
160 
117 
156 
none * 
23*6 to 
27-6 
From this aspect it appears that the battery, in point of power, is more 
than double that of all other European batteries, whilst as to men, horses, 
and means generally, it is within the limits of all batteries now existing in 
Europe.f As to facility of manoeuvring, thanks to the smaller weight of 
the carriages, it is far in the way more handy than all other European 
batteries. This again involves a fresh advantage, viz. tha! of enabling us 
to make use of smaller and consequently less expensive horses, and to be 
dependant solely on those obtainable in the country. But in the present 
financial difficulties, it would appear to every one a most absurd proceeding 
to embark in the enormous expense of constructing all this new materiel; 
* According to the organization of this battery the transport of small-arm ammunition is not 
entrusted to it: to compare it with the other batteries on equal terms, we must add 3 wagons, 
10 men, and 12 horses for the transport of 84,000 cartridges. But in all artilleries a number of 
rounds, sufficient to bring up the total to 300 rounds per piece, are carried in wagons not attached 
to the batteries. Thus the new artillery will have only 40 rounds in those wagons, while the 
service Italian artillery will have to take into the field 90, the British 86, the French 60, in addition 
to those with the battery. From this point of view the new artillery is in a better position than 
the others to which we have compared iti 
f See note, p. £33. 
