The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

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great North Fort we have aletsally.inetitionedi at the WINTERBODRNE KEN`OSTON.—On ' SumlaY
extreme end of the work. When the fort is completed A .'erUttril was Iltk6C1,0(1 at the plumb church by the
it in said nothing further its to be dime,.
northern portion of the Breek water- is to be left hi its '
present condition. We hope this hat hot been officially .
the l' t 'il ttrativee in Lancashire. The col-
. the collectinns shell cuutiotto to be m •
"'I the ' Rev. P.
rMeer, Btuinvibinnie, 8.A., curate, in behalf of
.-i cotton amolinted to .C 4 be Md. It is intended that
decided on. The cost of building a Bea wall sting its - 1 '
whole extent, which would not only give beauty to the ade at the
structure, but even strength, by betiding like a bukbone
the topmost, and therefore the loosest stories, would eervitre; until
church &aka
thirenadtteorriFteutberaorStenly,aiyiereatfrateirreuivening
only amount to 00,01.10. For the sake of this trifling PA EIItaTUND. —liernran'a celebrated band corn-
outlay it Is surely not wise to leave so important re work menced their Christmas campaign on Monday, the
in such an unfinished condition. At the extreme end ot
15th inst. by playing a selection of popular music
this portion, which is more thah 0.6h0 feet long, is the ' .
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great North Fort. It is needless to soy that this in front of the seat iT w oil re erarcetEaq. ~ by whom
gigantic work is not undertaken with a view of proiect- they were most hospitably entertained.
lug the Bseakweter. A Breakwatet once built is effightly altered from one 'of the leading
indestructible alike to friend or foe, and, whatever ruins mere f....-
the eetebrated New Zealander may stand on when lie Oh! Dr. Johnson, for ehenie,
visits Englandi we may be sure they will not be those What • tettl blot to yourfame,r
of Breakwaters. The great North Fort is the vanguard Are you not greatly to blame
of the defences which are rising here to protect what is Thus to spell rain-deer for rein!
evidently intended to be mode one of the utmost valuable
iof our great naval stations. The whole winception and BOURNEMOUTH. 19rii EiaPrre RIFLE&
I manner of execution of this singular work make it one On the occasion of the departure of sergeant-
-lof the most wonderful defences ever constructed. it is Instructor M'Connell, the members of the 19th
, built in a depth of from 60 to 70 feet of rather rough Hants gave a dinner to the Drll•lnstructor and
seawater, and iron base to summit will be more than Officers on Friday week. About 40 partook of the
100 feet high, 400 feet diameter at its lame, and 200 feet good thing*, which were laid out in tiret-rate style
et its summit, ell of solid atone. The foundations for
the great eremites of granite which are to rest upon at the Royal Arms Inn, sod great credit ie due to
Host Candy for the manner in which he catered.
the are just finished, and these consist of 140,000 tons m
of stone, poure After the cloth wiwt removed the usual toasts were
poured in so regilletly that they now form
rt great circular mound, under water' 46 feet high mid drunk, and several very excellent speeches were made
250 feet wide at its summit. The wonderful *ebb of by Lieutenant Creeks, (chairtnany, Ensign Parker,
scaffolding and mechanical appliances by which Lids lies Odor-Sergeant Rigors, (vice-chairman) and other
been accomplished are worth describing, inasmuch as officers of the corps. A very handsome meerschaum
they show the manner in whint, the whole Breakwater pipe was presented to the Sergeant-Instructor, as a
has been boa. et the first glance nothing seems mark of respect to him, for the very efficient
easier than to build • Breakwater, though in realm
nothing is more tediously difficult or requires More
9 manner in which he had performed his duties, and
great regret was et preened at his unavoidable demurs
care, 'rhe tramway, which has to do evirything, ie a ture. The drum and fife band of the corps were
railway of the most elusive kind, but built entirely of
present, and, led by Bandmaster Dear, performed
wood, and running out into the sea like a pier. It is a . • . . • -, • •
several pleasing airs during the evening. emnvivt.
Scaffolding that must be built under water, strong
itiough not only Sc, carte' its ponderous loads of stone ality reigned amongst all, and the members
at an elevation of 90 feet, but to resist the action of the separated after a most pleasant evening.
ilea as well. Every timber must be made waterproof,
end many must be bolted together to be strong enough
for one pile, end the trainwey, Breakwater, and ford&
elation remit adiance siintileanecittsly, yard for verdi
Woen all this has to be cl;the in 6C) feet of rough,
tumbling waves, a nide and . half from the Shore, It
will easily be seen that the work presents difficultiee
which do not at first appear. One night's rough
weather often sweeps away the timber that has cost
thousands of pounds and months of labour to fix in the
sea. The timbers used are always rendered weatherproof
and worwproof —for a very destructive worm exists in
the waters of Weymouth—by creosoting. This is done
as followsl—On the works et Portland is eeected a
boiler of immense strength, 100 feet long and 7 feet in
diameter. This is tilled with the largest timbers that
can be procured, and the mouth closed airtight. A
powerful ateam pump then exhausts the air, net only
?tom the boiler, but the very lion-s of the timber itself.
When the Vedeithe es almost oomplete the creosote is let
in from tanks at the , bottom; and then forced in by
efdraulic power till the pationire is at nearly 300 lb. to
the Lehi hi , thie the logs are suffered to temain for
tv/d dr three illyii, tin t le creosote his been fotced into
their inmost fibres. lien the
lir
IFii have been nitis
prepared they are btfi t iute tie endow) belling by
bolting many together, tin one fise epsti if (mined
weighing eight or nine tone, and some tete of ihnie
feet square, Out thelend of this, which is to go into the
gicitunl. Is teed a powerful screw of iron. The whole is
then lettered intaltri tdme in the Sea till it rests on the
ground, when it Is *Meted ernind by a capstan till the
screw has bitten firmly some Melt feet in the eatth.
Directly it is thus placed upright it is redored still more
firmly by many wrought-iron tierods, which aref Late*
down by divers from the bead of this pile, and secured
at the bottom to a number of sinews forced as deep
as they can be into the clay. One pile, however, is never
set alone ; three or four are nett', always set at the
same time, so that the tnoment the moorings are com-
plete the gtoup is bound together ey poweiful cross
timbetei witich are increased and added to, and bound
with iroti ties, Aud iindeletresped again, till the MASA is
strong enough, not only to carry itaildals of tonsof stones
for "tipping in," but to resist the heavy onaleepilt Le de the
waves. In the construction of the great North Fort,
at the end of the Breakwater, these piles have been
lowered in two tremendous double circles, the inner one
having.a diameter 112 feet, cprresonnding to the dimen-
sions of the court yard of time circular fort, the outerone
having a diameter of 224 ft. for building its outside walls. ,
On the Innercirnle is a remit steam "traveller" and crane, '
fee frem fee inner to the outer circle comes an IMOIOAIIO
tvroughtiron ladled. "ttaveller" which, worked by
steam, travels rapidlte like a initfffie:hatid; round the
immense circle, and gives to the whole work the appear;
anot of being a wood.and-iron clock of the most colostral-
Proportions, laid horizontslly, but yet in full work.
Out to this monstrous dial the feeding treins run
rapidly along the tramway, each with 60 or 80 tons of
stone in tow. As they approach the dial, the bungler
steam "traveller" hurries round its great circumference,
to Meet Mein, and takes two or three wagons, unto Use
capacions ulaw at once, and then Is away wain, round,
dud roue!, till it stops ovet the precise spot were more
" tipping in" is required, *heti the wagons; as if by
Magic, trete oil mei, ised pout their blocks into the
Wetee, Front morn till night all are busy on this Out
dial, working machines of some kind, of the muses
dealt with here are too rough Mel minden:ere Lobe
influenced by the mere direct labour of Malt In
centratit with this busy dial above are one or two quiet
itits beneath; the oceuyante of which seem fishing,
With mech. eagei qthetnese do they watch time lines they
hold in die Wilier; These Me the men looking after
the divers beneath, for the divest ate ndw down ever
tide, carefully levelling the masses tipped fel, repoietneg
where a little more is wanted here or there, and making
e•terything ready for the massive courses of masonary
which are to compose the fort. These divers remain
down at their cold dark work, sometimes in a depth
of 70 feet. fore whole tide, even when the sea is rough
and tumbling heavily, and they can see by the fluctua-
tions In the gloomy twilight how the waves are rolling
gbove their heeds. Only one llCAlident has °courted among
these died eldrittir the etogtess of the works, but that,
like all necidents to diviiti at tench depths, was of course
fatal They report that the fotilidationi sirattew reedy
for the great superstructure of the fort. IL*
is to consist of a solid aolumn of stone, first ot
three slabs of " Yorkshire landing," very large
an I thick, then of blocks of Portland stone, and
epee of granite up to low-water mark. On this the
'anode departments of a great fort will be built.
Toe walls at the bite will have a thickness of 41 feet of
granite and 81 feet of Poitlirid etctnei tapering at the
summit to a thickness of 41 feet of granite Intl 4 feet of
Portland stone. It is to be in three stories—the bate-
meat entirely for reserve and expense magazines,
and stores of shot 'and ultra The two upper stories
will be oasemated mortar batteries, the two tiers each
Molitifeng 99 of the heaviest guns that can be made
when the fit is ooinplete, and certainly not less than
154,1.orinders. On the summit are to be mounted 16
100-pododers at einlitosafere and ea barbels, making
80 guilt in all. A bird'aeyti eieW of this work when
finished Wottl , thetelfcirelebew ft like' it ring of granite
over 100 feet thick, and having a eouit,Ydril itt ihicentre
100 feet in diameter. On this inner court the ofteer'e
quarters will look from the top, and the men's barrack.
rooms at the bottom. The whole place, in fact, will be
an independent fortress, detached from the Breakwater,
and having a little pier and dock of its own. where the
vessels whMh bring it supplies will remain. It will
need rather a large garrison, who are likely to find the
station a secure, though a dull one • in fut, it will be
eery little better than being quartered in • lighthonse,
,vihich the fort is also to be. The fort, however,
itoriclefoutl its it will.be in its size, steength, and arms-
Meet, is, liftet all, A mete sea ontiverk of the
tremendous range of Lind defense/I erected (*being
erected at Portland. The felt is hot likely to be
finished for some time yet to come, brit the Breaks
water, as we have sail, is perfectly complete, atid May
fairly be said to be the most elided structure of its kind
in this country.
1 BERE REGIS.--Collections in behalf of the
batten spinners in the North were made on Sunday,
sit the pariah church and the Independent chapel.
Collections for the same object will be made on
etch Sunday until the end at February, if necessary.
The ..s will be sent monthly to the Central Relief
POO at Manchester.
. W itSbays:4 MirtrtlONS.—On the evening of the AU
inst., a pnblic Meeting was held in the Wesleyan
Chapel. The attendance Was very good. Addresses
were delivered by the Revs. James Allen, circuit
minister, G. C. Smith, and H. Stroud, Independent
ministers, on the mission work in Germany, China,
Western and Southern Africa, Madagascar, West
Indies, New Zealand, and other parts, furnishing
many instanced tit =ogees. Although (said one of
the speakers) success was not an invariable guarantee
Of the justice of men's proceeding*, nor the sole
arbiter of duty, yet as servants of Christ, it was en-
couraging to find all their plans brought to &success-
ful issue, and their prayeas :tappily answered. They
had great reeson to be thankful to God for the many
additional thousands who were reported as members
lof the society. Many facts were brought forward
1 hich plainly show that the friends of mentions in .
Ent
1 gland are not left to toil in the good work shrive,
that many faithful labourers were being engaged
is the same holy enterprise in foreign lands.--A
collection was made, and the proceedings were
closed by singing the doxology and benediction.
Communicated.
MORDEN. —A lecture was delivered in the
Temperance Hall of the above place, by Capteiw
&littler' of Poole, on Wednesday evening, the 10tY
inst., alid we have seldom listened to a more elo-
quent one on the cause of Total Abstinence. Hie
address chiefly related to the labouring clam. He
said that it was his earnest desire to see them
unshackling the chain by which many of them were
bound and enslaved by the drinking customs of this
land, and hoped that the time would soon arrive,
when, instead of being wholly occupied, like tire
beast of the field, in providing for the wants of their
animal nature, they would devote their leisure to
the improvement of their minds. He likewise stated
that intemperance was the greatest obstacle to our
Tuitional tranquility and happiness, the east wind
which blights the prospects of the nation, and the
source of by far the greatest amount of wretohed-
nese and (haven which afflict and disgrace thisland.
Mr. Hillier presided over the meeting, and urged
upon all present the necessity of adopting the prius.
ci plan of total abstinence; to come out from among
the ranks of the drunkard, and touch not, nor taste
of that which *at filling the land with devastation
and woe. We earnestly wish the Temperance
movement in this village God speed, and may the
day soon dawn when the use of all alcoholic liquors
shall be for ever banished from our shores,
and when houses front the sale of intoxicating liemors
shall be remenibered only as things that were.
MARNRULL.—The following quaint epitaph,
dated 1,670. is inscribei on a tomb erected to the
memory of Robert and Mary Moore and their
datighter Frances, in Marnhull Churchyard, Derewt-
shire :
" See what Death with 's spade had done to wee,
Haying new planted WM; o'4 branch, and tree,

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dall.:ndraoftd,th
rat. persons
g:r,het.„l::,
lion. deprfree theniselven at it, and came forward in
and
their noble work ef haineu and love. (Hear, beer.)
He was impressed with the a ''wvirt'6" that there ass
aognething au peril Miura)
were actuated by the Spirit of' God for the work, and
that they were made • 111,011.141111 of bringing many a
poor soul to the hoowjeage of truth. ( A pplauae.)
The Rev. Mr. JAMES Nod . meld endorse every
wwohradt tain'gtrehatindadb!earnitaBg'iedth'e6"y :Pet '0
Sundarach°°l'
thing
to
ore,
pi..
te.h,rs. TA des. the teachers
themselves had the love of Jesus ins, heir hearts, how
could they expect • blessing upon the scholars, 1111.1 it
depeeded upoit the chillren's rehigionsi. istruction what
kind of a town the would be in ten r fifteen years
hence. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced the t this school
welt beth for secular and religion,' instead on. Eduea•
tion without the Bilde he believed to be • a 'roe, instead
of a blowing. If they looked at France Ow rmanY. and
Prussia, they would aee. what educatLs te, 'theta the
Bible had lone. Let them take care that Os I'B Word
was read in their school, mid then • great blessing
would rent bpon the education of the young. I le must
eengreenialie Mr FAliett, for he was sure he felt , • Pride
in knowing that this room was opened for the a vrvice
of God ; and his (tine speaker's) earnest prayer was,
that they might look hack in after-life, and say, •a l. ieve
it was that I was brought to Jesus, whom to knots ii
' life eternal?
Anthem—" Hearkenlunto nie all ye.that follow afters'
righteousness."
ROBWIT Tuosurt, Esq., said be was mach pleased
with the sentiments delivered by the Mayor at the
commencement of the proceedings, which did as much
credit to his head as to his heart. This he thought be
could in some inealotre attribute to the instruc-
tion which he received hum the venerable parent whom
he had now the pleasure of looking upon. (Hear, hear.)
Referring to the school, Inc said he had no jealous feel-
ings respecting it, and he hagi no fear that it would
injure that in the other parish. He wishei God speed
to it, and lie hoped Mr. Elliott would get lots of little
boys that did not go to the other school. (Laughter). He
asked them not to be too sanguine, and not to get up
too mach steam at first, but let them each do what
good they could it, their own spheres. He hoped that
God would bless th e undertaking, and that it would be
a sone.a of great •A vantage to the town. (Applause.)
Antbenr--- Judge me, L) Lord.. .
The Rev. Mr. Tno.was aaid his presence here that
night WWI sok so much to make • speech as to show
his sympathy for the work which was now being
Inaugurated. Ffiw friend, Mr. Tucker, had long been
connected with the etbe., school in the town, and had
told him that befelt • little fear lest this school should
interfere with the ether. He (Mr. Thomas) noafessed
that he never had any each fear, on the eontrary he
hoped both would were, WI 11 together. (Hear, hear.)
If this school was kept for L'ie purpose for which it was
intended, namely, an infant school, it would teach the

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