Morris’s Colonel McGregor, by Macaroni, is now the favorite in the betting on the Derby, Tim Times denounces the captain of the Bombay for proceeding after the c dliaion with the Oneida, without positively ascertaining the damage sustained by the latter. At Portsmouth, recently, the largest armor plate of iron, thick rolled at cherry red heat, wan tested, with chilled shot from smoothbore guns. They were fired with a charge of twenty-four pounds of powder a distance of thirty feet. Tho-shot penetrated seven and one-flftecuth inches into the plate.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2197, 23 May 1870, Page 2
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89Untitled Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2197, 23 May 1870, Page 2
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