30 JANUARY 1864, Page 2

The statements made in our article last week on Sir

Emerson Tennent's puff of the Whitworth gun are confirmed by a curious announcement in the military intelligence in Thursday's Times "The Whitworth and Armstrong Committee appointed at Wool- wich by the War Department to decide on the comparative merits of the two rival gunmakers, notwithstanding their efforts to bring the trial to an issue, have received a notification from the Whit- worth Company, stating that their arrangements are still bloom-

plete, and that no definite time can be fixed at present for the trial to take place The whole of the Armstrong guns have been in readiness for some time past."