MEMORIAL DE ARTILLERlA. 
665 
We may say that we do adhere to most of what the writer lays down 
as so essential, and very probably we do the utmost in that way in our 
Horse and Field Batteries that circumstances permit, but in how many 
of our stations do we get ground other than the most level field in the 
neighbourhood, on which to do all our outdoor work ? Aldershot and 
the Curragh are about the only stations where we can get the advantage 
of driving over rough ground, taking up positions, co-operating with 
other arms in field days, out-post duty, &c., and the latter of these 
places even, is far from presenting much scope for either the driving 
powers, or fertility of resource in taking up positions, of our Artillery¬ 
men. A great step has been taken in the right direction by the 
establishment of practice camps annually on Dartmoor and at Hay, 
and if every battery could only have a good spell of one of those places 
each year, and autumn manoeuvres with the other arms afterwards (say 
every other year) more would be learnt in a month than is now learnt 
in a year on the drill field. 
But then, again, the great question of money comes in, and though 
we are not hampered, happily, as much that way as Spain is, still with 
our present external and internal troubles, money must be saved, and 
batteries therefore cannot be moved about so freely, and those at out- 
stations do not get the advantages of practice grounds and autumn 
manoeuvres, &c., as they should. 
HOLLAND. 
The Dutch have made three guns of steel-bronze for their Horse 
Artillery, and these have undergone a very satisfactory proof. 
They shoot as well as the English, German, Austrian, and Italian 
field guns; though not quite as well as the French, nor as the 8‘I 0111 
made by Krupp for the Swiss Government. 
After 1000 rounds the guns were none the worse, and the steel- * 
bronze appeared to possess all the requisite qualities for a metal of 
which to make guns. 
At page 207 of the February Number of the ee Memorial de Artilleria” 
mention is made of a telescope invented by M. P. de Broca, and 
described in “ les Mondes, Vol. 53, No. 11. 
The object of this is to lay guns at long ranges, and it is destined to 
complete his previous invention of the double sight for Artillery on 
land. It is founded on a particular principle of “ large field ” telescopes, 
which gives us the power to see, at the same time, objects both at a 
long distance from those we are laying on, and also those which are 
