THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT ON THE FIGHT IN HAMPTON ROADS. mission which planned them. Parliament debated the question deliberately:and finally voted the ap perfectly. THE RIFLE. this city. Like its predecessors it contains a large number of interesting and well written articles among which is one contributed on the above sub ject by J. T. Hodge Esq. from which we condense a considerable amount of the following information. A rifle consists of a fire arm the barrel of which has the interior. Some barrels have a regular twist others a 'gaining twist.' Except for short barrels Mr. Hodge states that
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT ON THE FIGHT IN HAMPTON ROADS. mission which planned them. Parliament debated the question deliberately:and finally voted the ap perfectly. THE RIFLE. this city. Like its predecessors it contains a large number of interesting and well written articles among which is one contributed on the above sub ject by J. T. Hodge Esq. from which we condense a considerable amount of the following information. A rifle consists of a fire arm the barrel of which has the interior. Some barrels have a regular twist others a 'gaining twist.' Except for short barrels Mr. Hodge states that this latter form of twist has the spiral grooves is 'to impress upon a tight-fitting Berlin Prussia there is a small rifled cannon having 13 grooves which bears the date of 1664. it is a breech loader. In the American revolutionary war the English had several 2-pounder rifled cannon the range of which was 1800 yards while in accuracy they surpassed all other pieces of that period. It was in the army under Washington however that select corps of riflemen were first employed. It is stated that their success led first to the introduction of rifle regiments into European armies. The num ber of these however was but small in the time of Napoleon and Wellington had only a single rifle brigade all the rest of his army being equipped with shows how slow some nations are in adopting good advice for Benjamin Robbins a scientific Englishman wrote a treatise called New Principles of Gunnery' in 1742 in which he described the superiority of the rifle and said - whatever Ste shall first adopt its use and become proficient in it must acquire a decided military superiority.' It was exactly 109 years after the above advice was given that the English acted ously perhaps old brown bees would still have been doing duty in Loudon among the Queen's guards. venting an improved weapon that would obtain a long range in order to skirmish with the Arabs in Algiers who used very long muskets with a large c
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