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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 59, 2 June 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

Some experiments were tried, oil Tues day, against Inglis'a shield at Shoebury ness. Whitworth's, Armstrong's, and Thomas's guns were used against it, but victory remained with the target, the thickness of which, however, is seven to eight inches. Thomas's gun having been overbored, burst into fragments, a piece weighing one ton hating been thrown 140 yards, l^rince Arthur was present;, A new scientific periodical has appeared in Paris, which is to give a weekly summary of scientific facts from all parts of the world, a report of the meetings of the Academy of Scientes at Paris, and articles on special subjects. It is entitled hesMondes and resembles in its general plan the weekly Co m6S, well known to scientific students, whose late editor, the Abbe Moigno> appears to have transferred his name and services to the new journal.