Genre:

News-Commentary, Spoof

Subjects:

Military Technology, War, Invention, Engineers, Patronage, Societies

    Discusses the production of an 'elegant work of art in silver' putatively intended by the Peace Society as 'a testimonial to Sir W. Armstrong' for inventing 'the wonderful gun, from the mouth of which have proceeded the strongest arguments that have ever as yet been advanced to disarm an adversary'.