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Western Star, Issue 50, 24 October 1874, Page 5

The higgast.gun in the world is now in course of manufacture at Woolwich Arsenal. It is to weigh 80 tons, being twice the weight of any gun hitherto male. Its charge will be 300 lbs. of now V-T, which will drive a projectile weighing 1050 lbs. through the best iron plates 20 inches ‘hick at oOJ) yards, anl through 10 inch plates at "300. var Is ; while it will, throw alO inch shell jn 300 t-arls or uearlv six miles. The trunnion niece of the gun weighs 18 tons, and is,the largest over ma le at the Arsenal. The cost, of this Vath-dealing instrument is expected to be about esnoo. The Glasgow Herald says that thr»e gentlemen connected with the Free Church in Inverness, in an excess of zeal for purity have f the question whether a brewer is eligible for the of elder. They believe that .the business of brewing “is detrimental to the heist interests of society and the advancement of religion and they wish the Free Church to raise its testimony against thr trade by declaring that a brewer, hdwever ;unimpeanhable may be bis character, 0? however sound the doctrine he professes, is Hot fit to assist in the oversight of a congregation. But they have received little encouragement.' The evasion; the. Presbyterv, andT the' Smod :; have all pronounced against them ; and they have now appealed tOi,.tbe Assembly; . ;; , * ’ A exhortm. n't* a. prsyob mcpt|n% Jrf a' rpn.h; ''VVdca.saVj tr'.fst o-H ?ar£ x bVbr*>’r nTgVs iyhp.J &T* bVjiea'.'.bo had : rP»en Veh comforted by’ M:a» beautiful passage o £ scripture, u A feint h-e&rt.xsivsr won fair lady’’