The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

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C 01011141718 Cs.lo.—The camp libruy, now eompris.
kg 1,759 volumes, chiefly on military, literary, Bolen-
ties, historiad, poetical, and religious eubjeota, is open
trots 2 o'elook till Bin the evening, to the soldier who
*home to pay lcipsr month, and we are glad to hear it is
generally well attended after drill by the men who ap-
preciate the proffered boon. Newspapers and periodical
areas° +applied, but an addition to Hail description of
reading would be most acceptable. A few useful maps
of Indus andilta adorn the wells, 104411 also pro.
otine , otle disp the admissible preo/Pt Lord Bat"
—" Knowled Its
ge Niter." Thu anthotities Intend to
provide amusement' in the ships of ohess, dralighte,
backgammon, dominoes, and allow tea and coffee to be
'erred in the library, which it is hoped will keep the
men from the contaminating influence of the low beer-
house. Smoking and gambling are strictly prohibited.
We are happy to learn that • lying-In hospital and
institution for obtaining work for 'soldiers' wives have
been established by the worthy and zealous Chaplain of
the Forces, the Rev. E. L. Walsh.
It was announced on Tuesday in the dockyard at
Woolwich, on the visit of Lieutenant-Colonel Greene,
Director of Engineering and Architeotural Works, that
the newlyconetitnted Board of Admiralty have abandoned
the intention of erecting the new storehouses in that
yard proposed by their predecessors in office, and which
it vu estimated, would cost &boat E 40,000. This resolu-
tion, it is said, has been adopted to meet the necessary
reduction in the expenditure-on Government Works so
as to dear off the heavy sum exceeding the estimates of
last. year. _ _ _

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New GARTIMIDOII.—Mr. George Hal, of the firm of
Masers. Bell and Hall, High-street, Woroester, has
patented • new cartridge, applicable either to sporting
or war. Its form is nearly similar to the ordinary cart-
ridge. For sporting purpoees the cartridge is made of
• charge of powder and shot, with a felt wad above the
shot, and another between the shot and the powder.
Hr. Hall's invention consists of a metal ring, which is put
round outside of the cartridge towards the upper (or the
shot) end of the cartridge ; fastened to this ring are
two or more bands of thread or tape, which proceed
outside the cartridge to the bottom end, where they are
faetened firmly to the papist. The effect of this arrange-
ment becomes seen when the cartridge is put into the
barrel of the gun. The ring, being larger than the wads
in the cartridge, is in consemienee too large enter the
barrel of the gun, and when the cart is pat into
the monocle it can enter no farther after e ring Meets
with the barrel. A small pOrtion of the upper end of
the cartridge, with the ring round it like a collar, re-
mains projecting from the barrel. The ramrod is then
applied, the cartridge disappears down the barrel, the
ring is left outside, and on the withdrawal of the ram-
rod" falls to the ground, with lie tapes or bands stil
fastened to it. The cartridge, when forced from the
tapes, is torn open by them at the bottom and the pow-
der set free. By this simple and ingenious invention
the sportsman may load his gun in about one-sixth of
the time usually ocenpied in the operation, and the
nuisance of the powderfiatk is done away with. All
that is to be done is to take out • cartridge, pop it into
the goo, and ram it down, and the sportsman is imme-
ready for the next bird that gets up.