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A Monitor gun. --The first of the 15 inch guns intended for the arming of the new iron clad Monitors has been completed, and was shipped from the Fort Pits Works to the navy proving grounds, near Wall's Section, on Saturday. During the previous week it will be proved and sent forward to the navy yard. The model of these guns differs considerably from that of the regular 9 and 11 inch hindrance, and still more from the model of the 15 inch Columbiad or Rodman guns. As the iron turrets in which they will be mounted furnish but cramped fighting quarters, being, we believe, generally of 22 feet in diameter, the guns are made very short in proportion to their calibre, being some two feet shorter than the Rodman 15-inch. They are not turned from muzzle to breach, as all other guns now are, but from a line some seven or eight inches behind the trauntons to the muzzle, leaving the breach a huge unfinished mass. The arrangement of the breach for the operating tackle also differs from