The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

irirmu anb Nalm.

A NEW LONG-RANGE GUN.—It is generally ender
stood that the Armstrong gun has been surpassed in
cheapness and range not only by the Whitworth piece,
but by an e • new gun. A new weapon of artillery,
designed b Mr. . ynall Thomas, producible at • far
inferior coat of oney and lime than either the Whit-
worth or Armstrong, has now been made and proved.
Experiments, which have been conducted by Govern-
ment officials at Shoeburyness within the last few day,
are said to have given a surprising table of results. The
shot alt,inedg range of ten thousand yards, the weight
of it 170th. The Armstrong guns, we believe, have
never carried • ball inure than 10U1b. weight. limn.
Horefidl, of Liverpool, are the makers, and it is said
that they have offered to supply the Government with
fifty Lynall Thomas guns per month should they he
required.'
A Malta correspondent says, in his letter dated 'Valetta
Oct. 'X, 4 p.m. :—" Her Majesty'a gun-boat Assurance,
Coininander Aynsley, arrived here on the 2lst inst. from
Alexandria (nine days), and from Suds Bay (two days).
Admiral Martin, with the line-of-battle ships are to tu-
muli at Corfu during the winter, and that constant com•
inunication is lobe maintained between the Commander-
in-Chief and the naval authorities here by means of
three gun-boats told off for the service. Her Majesty's
despatch-b.et Banshee left Malta on Saturday last for
Coostantinople. This vessel was to have conveyed
Lieut. Smith, of the Royal Engineers, and Lieut.
Percher, of the Royal Navy, to the coast of Africa, on
an anthjuarian expedition to Cyrene, as stated in my
last letter, but, according to new arrangements, the
Boxer gunboet has been substituted for her. The
Boxer went round on Tuesday from Shama Creek to the
dockyard, to have her boilers, which have been under-
going repair, replaced. The crew of the St. Jean
d'Acre lineml-battle ship are still on board the receiving-
ship Hibernia, and since their removal I understand the
health of the men has much improved, nor do I hear of
any new cases of sickness having occurred. Ac-
counts have just been received from Her Majesty's
gunboat Recruit, in the Danube, stating that the
crew had been suffering severely from low fever.
Si: working hands were at one time all that
were left to carry on the work of the ship. Two or
three deaths had occurred among the men, and two
invalids hey. arrived at Malta. I hsve accounts,
received this morning, of Her Majesty's surveying
vessel Medina. She was at Smyrna on the 214 of

October. The Dutch war 'teenier Cycloop, Captain
Tsewakr, kit Malta for Conetantinople on the 2.lth
inst., and the frigate Van Wassenaar, Captain Van
VUIIII, of the same nation, on the following
day for Holland. The Dutch transport barque
Helder arrived here from Alexandria on the 23 rd
inst., also bound for Holland. The Prussian gun-
boat Lovely, Ca;.d. H. Kusiu (the same which some
time bock conveyed despatches fmui the King of Naples.
at Gaeta, to the Neapolitan commander of the citadel of
)fessina, ordering him on no account to surrender,
onlea lie received an order to such effect from the
King), left port on the 21st inst. for Constantinople.
The French corvette Colbert, Capt. Boisguilrenneud,
arrived on the Wth inst. from Toulon, and left on the
following day for Helmut. She has on board stores and
52 supernumeraries for the French fleet."