Now for the next: bad as is the preceding, this is infinitely worse; the former costs two-pence per pound, the present varies from one penny to one penny farthing per pound. “Sham damn iron” is similar in nature to brass; a metal with fibres certainly, but they are like the fibres of willow compared to oak: it is an iron soft and spongy, capable of being condensed to an immense degree. All slave gun-barrels are made of it. Mungo Park detailed some of the lamentable atrocities committed by these guns bursting. The many thousands of mutilated wretches who have lived to curse the cupidity of their fellow-men, form not a bright side in the picture of human nature; but were you to bawl into the ears of those employed in the construction, all these and a thousand more such direful effects of their handiwork, you would not abate one in the number of these man-traps. _Cost of Guns made of Sham Damn Iron._ DOUBLE GUNS. _s._ _d._ Double barrels, plain iron, with side huts, per pair 7 0 Locks 1 6 Wood for stock 0 6 Stocking 1 2 Furniture 0 5 Screwing together 2 0 Percussioning 1 4 Polishing and engraving 0 9 Varnishing and painting stock 0 4 Painting twist barrels 0 4 Rod, tip, worm 0 4 Small work 0 7 -------- Total 16 0 -------- SINGLE GUNS.