The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-24 00:00:00

THE 100 TON Gyk

The hundrorl-toit-;;n-ihai-ir.ao-fcrei on Friday for the
fir a. int. at Woolwich M one of four gigantic cannon that
were purchased last year out of the vote of credit, from
the firm of Sir William Armstrong and Company. They
were manufactured at the Elawick Ordnance Works In
pursuance of • cootract with the Italian Government, and
were destined for arming the Dandoln and Duillo turret-
ships; but so they were approaching completion and pro-
mised to be ready inn. before the veseels wanted their
armament, the War Offios made • bid for the serial, and
r W. Armstrong is now engered in manufacturing
another on for Italy. As the Isrgest weapons mane-
( matured at Woolwich ore of but eighty tone—the cannon
for the Inflexible—it follows that the huge E'swich guns
ere one-fourth heavier. whale as to length they corpses
the Woolwich arms by more than five fret. It was a
hti0d114.1,43 gun, o ir readers may remember, that we,
tried at Sperm a little while ego, when projectiles of
2,00011 a. were fir ml with charges of gunpowder varying
from 11.101 b. to EMAIL What the Government proposes to
ds sr ith these psnderou s c5OOOO. now they have been booth;
is not so char. for their great length—upwards of thirty-
two feet—renders it Impassible that they can be made use
of even in our largest turret shipa, while the new steel-
clads dim are building will In all probability be armed
with breech-loaders. and not nstunds-loatiers, such se there
100.thn guns ar.. Most Itkely they will be sent to the
Mediterranean one pair to Malta end the other to Gibraltar
to be employed for coast defence. their long range
fitting them for this purpose tatter than any other. Out
they are first of all lobe thoroughly proved at Woolwich,
and it seam that some hitch occurred on Friday which
has prevented for the present the completion of the trial
then begun. What the wet of each of these guns will be
In the end, when they are mooniest on carriagre and
pieced in position and supplier! with • hundred rounds a
Mee of shot and shell, it is difficult to soy ; bet from first
o lest th-c aro bad, to cat the country not much lees
than • hundred thoueeed pounds altogether. Whether
they are tsi be load-,d by hydraulic apparatus, or whether
some simple hand-gear can be devised for training and
working the ponderous weapons, are matters apparently
that have still lobe allied, on that • long time mast
elapse before the guns are ready to be made woof, if it is
found that they can be used deli.

Err-is Cit cram J I .11: IlLb. --CAUTION ! —Thew effective
arid samesible confections are soil by first dolmen& ; by
others, howevor, attempt. are ..lien made stsulatimtioa.
we therefore deem it nrcoseary to caution the public that
ITP WILY. I they can only be obtained in boxes, 61. end is. Isbell d
~...Cotf. Term BLOCKING INC lAN?. -011 Monday ! J...iiNtro
sii“St m a Cc.. HomoPethic Chemists. 411, 'Meld
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-t. and 170, Piccadilly.. London.
17,* luiorage train was stopped on the railway a . irons I.P:PSOY AND TIM PIM AGAIN.—The Count!
WrIIIIMIth aide of the tunnel by the C.urt Judire's again poured out at the ! I fancy we shall not bear say snare of the adjourned sof a enal track giving way. The truck thus Wincantou Court""farit "on that mann fell on the re- • debar. ce the expenditure of the London School Board.
"114atialii7 on the line, which wee entirely 11..' 1.1, preeentative of the ..Issrli Jestreal,""Use Judge at the ' Mr. Reginald Yorke broutht forward the motion with
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.a'l all the traffic bad to pami over a single Hue same time making toirwof very uncouiplimeutary the approval. not to NW ON connivance. of the Govern-
me( As
LIPOGISBY dtligbtitti WM it 'for the Dorchee.- i-- -1 noiaarks respecting the conduct of that paper. The went. But at the present delicate juncture of political
Magus t.i woroouth by the 6.5,
who
www dytafoad Imb...imp of Judge Lefn.y is causing a great amount of affairs the Ministry shrink from unnecessarily stirring up
excitement throughout the circuit ill feeling. Moreover they find themselves in the difficulty
;.toomr. near,,„na ll: now esme-road station over half-an- GREAT SCCLLINC MATCH. —immense crowds of persons that LOrd Bandon was for three years a member of the
~ I weather being tine they were able to view locked to the banks of the Tin. on Monday afternoon. to London School Board. and that he approved, tacitly or
Oa* charming in the neighbourhood of Dar- w the sculling match between William Elliott, of directly, the initiation of many of the schemes. the
‘1"4" CometTrirr itness
osteed of dissipating at the Birth. and Edward Hanlon. of Toronto, forth. Champion- ramifications of which Lave landed tha Board In the
wintbera watering place. The Dorcheeter and Wey- um, 0, zooloud. a
challenge
cap
andaarm
of four „smut difficulty. Lord Sandra could not take up his
xs°4ll Adak, were mist active Mr. Humphries h""dr.4 p""'" l'o• a leer tanb; before the me the P•mbi. "a°44 his fanms
sslissCuss' and no have ti.
Batas,* dittoofotoudaa i • —", twitting had leen greatly In favour of the Canadian who • London School Board eeeleteld withal, the eteleveld of
t, either strived or wee by
saddest at W In tha race oukkly took t....d sad issintsissd. it the Widmer who wee ViemPreridont of the Conseil would
sod __.,,Y11.314/4., aid hY tomes ve Paet, "CIO" throughout the distance of over threimilee, coming in the be • mockery. At the woe Use, the Government were
imms wiles** wir Valk was Wily carried. sill winner by tan laugtlee, ia but 9., „mud ~,,, twisty.. opt St a ODIAIBM JO _MP the knasklee of the Based. end
l'ill right adaS day. minutea Ws Lard G•orge ROMIS did se disartly as los dared.

• BAD
~B.Lalla,

Mr. Chad., Bowrot the Attorney•Gezuwars &toil, made
Judge 11th June, 19.
Diemen in his words' full tide
Stid he was on tb• Aurora side;
If this tht B•scono6l.lint, ter.t
Why snAke • judge out I • devd I

I Co gientionaly went to church in Mayfair last Ban-
dar, expecting to • wild about bowels. The young
entleman who delivered an .retillent lemon—far &lege
the ..—taid pinch shoot the strait ptth •nd the
wrong petb.hut not one word ahout whales. au p powd lobe
the rallect of 'b. 1.. I am inclined b. thitk that if I had
given the congreaction a cisbrilm amount of a visit I pald
Little to the Linda' Hospital at midnight I cult bays
unfolded a tale of human coffering and acrulsh that
might hem at least doubled the collection—the oven being
ssoiacrable no flukes and ducbessee notwithatanding. I
need not afflict the gay world ig dwelling upon the aoene
I MU called there to witness; bit if any wish fobs lee-
pr-seed with feeling, of charity and humanity I recom-
mend them to • alk through thme silent wank with the
Bohm: y light here and there,with the night-nurses flitting
about bringinz water to the parched tongue and atimu-
lanta to the dying. and then tell me, or whom they like,
if they hare not we e Borman such as they can never
hear. and never can forget.

Cardinal Newman waa as an Anglican and a young
(Waterier', passionately in favour of Eriefish hagiology.
lie refused to join in the censures of Father Faber's
Li, of a, Saila... and had himself pngeeted while
at Littietnore the lives of the English saints. lie firings
back with him from Rome *nine news as to the proposal
to canonise as saints of the Holy Roman Church a few
more etIliDCll, Englishmen, amongst them Sir Thoouis
More and Cardinal—some people will pentist lull in
calling him bishop—Fisher. Me new company of
English martyrs have been decreed canonical honours by
the Congregation of Rites ; and we shall shortly hear
of an English jubilee in Rome, to celebrate with all the
richness of nelenastical pomp the elevation of the
leaden of I atholic opposition to the reformation to the
celestial hierarchy. The festivals which celebrate,' the
canonisation of the Japanese martyrs will be eclipsesL