Monsieur Caron.--Showy, ornamental, very middling. Lepage and Moutier.--Work good, ornamented, principally arabesque. Game and English scroll pattern, engraving, cocks, &c., but inferior to the English patterns of Gauvain. Houllier Blanchard.--Good work; designs English; a very novel pattern of figure in the barrels. Monsieur Le Perrin.--All his guns artistic; raised, embossed, artistic, ornamental, heavy cocks to imitate my shape; one good English pattern soft gun. Monsieur Lainê.--Good sound work; English pattern of twenty years ago. Monsieur Andrê.--Good work; ornaments embossed; “Devisme” inlaying; carving and embossing unequalled; several English pattern guns, but of the standard twenty years ago. “Thomas.”--Guns well inlaid; work medium. Albert Benard, barrel-maker.--Iron very good, but all lined; bar apparently reduced from a mass two inches square, which tenuates the figure extremely, as the bars are only 1/4 inch thick. Gastienne Renette.--All highly artistically ornamented; work good, carving very elaborate. A novel mode of breech-loading: a piece on hinge turns out, a cartridge, slides in return to its place, and a quoin like a wedge forces it up into a chamber; the wedge and head receiving all the force of the recoil. Lenoir, barrel-maker.--Iron very good; thirty rods in a faggot 5 + 6, and welded and drawn down into 3/8 of an inch square: an enormous elongation of the fibres. Doye.--Good English pattern-work--nothing else. Fontereau.--Work, all English pattern; very good. M. Brunn, successor to Armand and Bourbon.--Highly embossed work: a novel breech-loader; artistic design for cock; female figures with fishes’ tails in scroll on to the tumbler. Guerin.--A novel safety guard; locks while on the nipple at half cock, and full cock; swivel double like a split ring. May.--A novel safety guard, very likely to break the finger: sure to do it if on an English gun. Breech-loader: central fire, the same as now made by Lancaster. Loger, barrel-maker.--Bars faggoted 6 + 2, and so formed to imitate laminated steel. Dufour.--All breech-loading guns; but all work of the first class. Juelle Magana, barrel-maker, St. Etienne.--Barrels well fitted and figure varying, but not possessing the regularity observed in the Belgian barrels. Chapellon.--Coutereau.--Exhibit some barrels filled, with a charge of 12 inches of powder, 6-1/2 inches of shot, and warrant them not to burst on firing that charge. Delabourse, Paris.--Good work “à la Purdey.” Lefaucheaux, Paris, prize medalist, 1851.--Good embossed work; breech-loaders; also very good imitation of English work. Such is a fair sample of the whole. But the best work by far is that by Gauvain, though not so highly estimated by the jury; but that is in many cases no test of ability whatever--as much depends upon the influence and standing of the individual.