§ COLONEL DUNCAN (Finsbury, Holborn)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the gun which was stated in The Globe of August 25 to have burst at Hounslow when tested by "a party of artillerymen," was made in Woolwich Arsenal, or where?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)No official Report of the occurrence has been received; but it is understood that the gun which burst was a gun designed by Colonel Hope and tired by Colonel Hope himself, and that it burst with great violence at the first round. It was not made at Woolwich Arsenal.