The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-12 00:00:00

THE DORSET REGIMENT.

It wte found imp usible, un ler snob • short
notice, to get the let B,Valions of the Bast Bent (3rd)
and D osetahire (30th) Itsgiments of on Saturday in
the Serapis, tra,pship, end their emberkation at
Portsmouth hse been postponed until to-day. Her
Majesty's Government are anxious to get two or three
thousand troops into Alexandria as early as practic-
able I,r the prevention of looting, the protection of 'he
Humpean to ilabitaais and population generally, and
hence the haste in despatching the two battalions
referred to. The let Battalion of the East Kent and
the Isl Battalion of the D meet will arrive from
Alderthot in the morning, and will at once embark
on board the Serape, Indian troopship, Captain G. 0.
Tense. Their baggage Is already on board; and
although the two regiments number about 1,700
°Muses and men, the embarkation will not. occupy
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more than about • oouple of hours. The ship
sell at six o'clock for Alexandria, ceiling, however, at
Malta fur final orders.
On Saturday the let Battalion East Kent Regiment
(Lite 3rd Bai), under con= .nd of Colonel Morley,
and the let Doreeteltire Regiment (late iffich), under
command of Colonel Dixon, received official orders to
peepers to proceed on Monday by special trains to
Portsmouth Dockyard, an i embark on board hi. BLS.
Sera*, for conveyance to Alexandria. The order
WAS not unexpected. On Sunday both battalions
paraded in the equipments and uniform (including the
white helmet) required to he worn in Egypt; and
afterwards the men were busily engaged in packing
baggage. The I.t 14,4 Kont Rvinient consists of 22
officers, 1 warrant officer, 831 non-commissioned officers
gni private men, and 4 officers' charger.. The lit
Dersetehire Regiment consists of 23 officers, 1 warrant
officer, 831 nowo tiliaissioned officers and private men,
awl 4 officals' chargers.
Both battalions have received large reinforcements
of Army Reserve men. Toe man found unlit at the
medical examination to wormed on active service and
young soldiere will remain at Aldershot for the prewar..

DEATH OF SIR GEORGE GREY.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, GOB., diad at
hie Nat, Faßoden, Northumberland, on Saturday.
Hs was born in 1799. He had been a member ot
several Liberal Administrations, and represented
Devonprat from 1833 t 1847. He ratired with the
Russell Adminietration in 1886, and from publie life I.

POUNIIIRING or A GLASGOW SHIP.
TWEITT LIV LOOT.
Intelligence received in Liver')343l states that the
Iron ship °Looms, °entail' Mayer, 586 tons redater,
horn Sunderland to Java, hie foundered at sea, and
that her Grew of 90 men hays periehed. A large iron
ship, supposed to be the Oanoma, ha, been disc ,vered
sunk off Yarmouth, and a quantity of wreckage
belonging to the Canorna has been washed ashore.

THE ALLEGED caviar), BY MISSIONARIZS.
The Bar. Henry Sotto., secretary to the Church
Missionary Society, has published a lean with reLreoria
to the cum of cruelty by persona sawed to hare bees
missionaries of the eo6sty. assays :—" Fortu macs Joba
and J. Williams are A,fricans Both were at on. time MY
.g.ats of thi...dity. John was dismissed in 1875, three
years baron the Owed cruelties era stated to haws
occurred. Williams withdrew from the merrier of the
last! to nom. Natbar, therefore, sushi to be described
as seats a the Coach Kissioaary Satiety. mach less
missionaries."