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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1720, 3 September 1862, Page 10

The Premier going by Telecb-aimi. —It may be regarded as an ominous circumstance that the Premier has, within the last few days, taken an opportunity of personally inspecting a trial of the Armstiong guns at Shoeburyness. The experiments were highly satisfactory, and Sir William Armstrong had the honor and satisfaction of being complimented on the complete success of his invention by no less a person than Lord Palmerston. His lordship appears to have gone through an adventure on this occasion. His carriage was blockaded in the mid-day stagnation of Cheapside ; and when he reached the Fenchurch Street Station the train had been gone two minutes. But the Premier was not to be done. He ordered a special train, overtook and passed the regular train, and was waiting on the platform at Southend when Sir George Cornwell Lewis, who had started before him, arrived in the train which he, the Premier, had missed. The following colloquy is said to have ensued :—Sir George (in amazement) — “ Why, how on earth did you get here so soon ?” The Premier (coolly)—“ Came by telegraph, my dear Sir George.” A genius in Troy has invented a stove that saves three-quarters of the wood, while the value of the ashes it makes pays for the remainder.