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MusKET PRoviNG IN ESGLAND.-All II muskets manu ufactured al Birmingham be submitted to a lest imposed by government, which takes pl,ce in what is called the 'proofhouse D MuskeIs that have stood this lest stamped. went to this in- ieresllng proot house. was told that every musket was there filled with charge five times as power iu as lha, which il was expected to carry when m or Ginary use ..tr.- ,r ezr.

 There are rooms in which the muskets are loaded | and place called 'ihe hole," where they are dis. charged. This Is managed in the follow ing man. ner: the loaded muskets 100 or POO at time, are placed side by side up low cafolding, upon which

 II is possible iasten them completely. Their mouths turned towards the inner wall of ihe room, where the bullets fly into heap of sand The walls of ihe l room are of great strength and thickness, and the doors and windows are strongly barricaded with iron.

 A train of powder is then laid, running over the ioucl-ioe of each piece to smal opening t is fired On the occasion of my visit, 120 muskets intended for the navy fried. These of larger cali bre than those in use in inc army. Alter the dis charge had taken place, little tnne allowed for

 the smoke 10 clear away before enter ed the proof room, where found that barrels had burst but that ll3 had stood the test. Ike superintendent os the establishment told me that sometimes many twenty out Oi hundred would burst, but very of ten also fewer than seven. If we take five or six per ce as the average. it gives high idea of the excellent wor kmanship of the English gun-nakers. We arc toll that, mol long ago, workman, who had been detected Tn some little speculation. found mems to secree himself in the proof room, where he placed his body in front of the battery. He found quite dead, and pierced with six bulets.-IFrom Khos work on England. u LI. -rl5n.N r4.t.=