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Evening Star, Issue 4172, 11 July 1876, Page 4

The guns ordered to be made during the enßiiing twelve months at Woolwich are principally to bo of a heavy character, botu tor land and sea service, and signs of increased activity arc visible throughout the royal gun factories. Orders for more field guns aro expected, but the guns which appear to be most in request arc the thirty - «.ight ton "infants/' a class which has achieved a reputation of the most satisfactory character. Beyond the four eighty-one ton guns now in progress, and the experimental gun at tho proof-butts, no more of that enormous size aro ordered, or arc likely to be demanded for some time to come.

Oratory, the ' Liverpool Post' remarks, is not always a family characteristic, but fortune has been lavish in itt> bestowal of the gift upon the domestic circle of Mr Joseph Arch. The other Sunday a daughter of tho well-known agricultural laborer, made her debut as a preacher at Warranton ; and the young lady, although still under twenty, acquitted herself successfully. She appears to have "got through'' the sermon without making herself in any way ridiculous, and this of itself is an achievment of which, peihaps, few lady preachers can boast. In vindication of the propriety of permitting women to occupy a pulpit, Miss Arch said she could conceive of no higher respectability than that of saving souls, and suggested that the a7igels themselves would not Lsc caste by such an enterprise. On April 29 the real ice- rink which has been constructed by Mr John Clamgeo, at the Old Clock Houso, King's Road, Chelsea, was opened. It is a privat rink, to which only a limited number of subscribers and their friends will have access. It lias been decorated with Arctic scenery, s,> that the sheet'of ice forming the skating area seems like a spot in the midst of an extensive landscape amidst glaciers and snow-drifts. In a short address to the large number of ladies and gentlemen who had assembled, Mr Gamgee pointed out tho successive steps by which he had been enabled by the aid of steam to produce and maintain a temperature of 30deg. or 40deg. below freezing point, and to apply it to maintain the congelation of a sheet of ice, 35:1. by '24 ft., with a mean depth of This, he said, was now being effected, not by the alternate evaporation and condensation of ether, but by condensing sulphurous acid under piessure. This, on being released, produces in--Ix:nse cold, which is communicated to a mix fcure of glycerine and water. This has the pi'dpe'ity of remaining in a fluid "st'a'fc, arfd is made to circulate through the tubes uhdei the sheet of water forming the rink.