25 JUNE 1864, Page 2

Captain W. Palliser, of the 18th Hussars, is said, in

the Times, to have made a most valuable discovery in artillery. This is the use of "chilled shot," i. e., shot cast in cold send moulds instead of hot iron ones. These pleasant projectiles, large enough for 100-pounders, pass through the target solid, and then split into "minute fragments" of four or eight ounces, dealing death around like shells. They cost, moreover, 2s. instead of 50s. Captain Palliser has also invented a mode of rifling iron guns by introduc- ing a coil of wrought iron, which has been tried at Woolwich with very great success, and will make hundreds of useless pieces useful again.