The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-16 00:00:00

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Cosa* DII7IIIOKS.—It is stated that • party of Royal
Engineers have recently visited Sunderland for the pur-
pose of surveying the mouth of the river Wear with •
view to the erection of batteries at the mouth of the
river, and that they have decided upon recommending
to Government to place a battery with four guns on a
line with the Blue House, • battery of four guns on the
large bank to the south of linker-terrace, • battery of
eight guns on the north side of the south outlet of the
new dock, and • battery of four guns on the south side
of the sea outlet. The guns to be of 10 ineh bore and
fire heavy shot.
ROYAL MILITART ACADIXT, WOOLWICH.—We are re-
quested to state, that in consequence of representations
which have been made to the Secretary of State for War
of the serious disappointment that must result to sev-
eral gentlemen now preparing for admission into the
Royal Military Academy, Woolvnah, by competitive
examinations, if, as has been previously announced,
there are to be no more direct admissions by such ex-
aminations, Major-General Peel, with the ooncturrenoe
of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief,
has decided on holding two more competitive examina-
tions for the Royal Military Academy, to be open to
pntlemen between the ages of 17 and 20—namely one
in July next, another probably in January following.
These examinations willhe the last, in order to allow of
the amalgamation of the Royal Military college and the
Royal Military Academy before the year 1860 Conse-
quently, after January, 1859, gentlemen desirous of ob-
taining commissions in the Royal Artillery or Royal
Engineers will have to pan through the Royal Military
College at Sandhurst, to which they will be admissible
at the age of 16. A prospectus of the next examination
will be naiad hereafter,
BOTTLIMENT TO 11110 " GAzirrrs. "—A supplement
to the Loaclosi Gazette of Tuesday was published on
Friday laid containing the correspondence reporting the
operatione of C,olon Wilson, commanding at Cawn-
pore, against a division of the Delhi fugitives, muster-
ing 3,000 men and eight guns, whom he attacked at
Gheorajpare, 22 miles from Car/upon, and completely
routed. The supplement also contains the list of the offi-
cers and men of the Malys Field Force killed and
'rounded from the 21st to 24th of Nov., the list of Euro-
peans killed or wounded by the hande of rebels, pre-
pared from papers on record in the Military Depart-
ment, in continuation of the list forwarded to the
Foreign Department, dated December, 24th, 1867 ; a
return of killed and wounded within the
Bemires Division, and a list of Europeans killed or
woended by the hands of rebels, in continuation of the
List tormarad- to the Foreign Department, Jauliary 85
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MIR STIAII FRIGAILIS. —Great exertion is being
used at Pembroke to finish the Orlando, screw steam
frigate of 50 guns. She Ii now so far completed that •
few months will snake her ready for launching, and
this event is likely to take place early in the summer,
probably at the commencement of June. This magnifi-
cent frigate will be the first launched of the half-dosen
ordered to compete with the monster Ameriean frigates,
said, from her great size, immense scantling, and arma-
ment, there is no doubt that she would prove a most
formidable opponent. She is the 'argon frigate in the
servioe, being about 960 feet in length over NIL Two
other first-elase ships, the Revenge, 91, line-of-battle
screw, and Aurora, 51, first-class 'mew frigates at also
very much advanced in construction, and oonlll be emu-
pleted in a short time. It is probablethey will beleaniehed
this season. The Shamrock screw gunboat is to be
laced on the Pembroke station as a tender to the Eagle
ship.
Her Majesty's frigate Melampue, which for the last
two yearn has been stationed in Southampton Water
for the purpose of exercising and instructing the man
guard and volunteer seamen, has been removed, and the
serew steam frigate Arrogant will shortly to stationed
In Southampton Water in her dead. The Melampus
was not fitted to go to ma. It is the intention of the
Government to place on every nation all round the
coed a sea going ship, in case of any emergency.
The system of direct admission to the Artillery and
Engineers open oompetition has been put an end to
under regulations Mined from the Horse Guards. In
all
future, eandkletes for admission to the scientific corps
must pass through Sandhurst.
By a recent arrangement Marrs. Cox and Co., army
agents, have ceased to ace as paymasters toile regiment
of Royal Artillery, and paymasters have been appointed
at head-quarters and at various stations from the
quarter-masters of the regiment who Writ) recently
retired on the honorary rank of captain.
Admiralty orders were received at Chatham Thursday
morning, for the North Star, 28, and the Rattlesnake,
8, to be taken into dock and broken up, owing to the
report of the surveyors that they are unfit for further
service._

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The Urgent, 6, screw troop frigate, Commander, J.
W. D. Macdonald, arrived at Spithead Thursday after-
noon. She left Malta on the evening of the 26th ult.,
and brings home some invelids, women, and children of
the 71st, as well as other passengers, and • quantity of
Ordnance stores. The Vulcan was at Malta, and was
expected to leave for England on the 3rd instant.