The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

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Cherbourg. BONO
Ilfitalpil of Paris, who were invited at • short DO tthe by
the Western Hallway Company, who emsceived the ides
atated beito.p.A lcm emr. to, aliste left Farlur oil Wed-
same train. Among Mims. Doctse and
Dupuis, if. Derudder, the (tamers, and the heel
"daof Afonntrilninn:"Furi: ingtheetre in tiro railway station, went by the
pdtle.rovers of the Theatre Ithbaratt.
The Pent, Phis the snembers of the Bones of
COIMPODA, WO* hate had a spluniki pumas to Cher.
bougra. A gentleman who lied meastiou to go out 40 She
Bs Which lay in Sottih .^...tott Water, on Tuesday
nig I, r;niernted Sc the ti eke Itt I after 11 o'clock, and
his attention wee stOrmteu the music of A beautiful
bind 00 board the Fria, and on approaching &me he
sew Many of the member' of the Hogue of Commons ape
uerently =awed by Speaker or iterimantm•Arins.
Nosy members Were In the shrouds looking on at others
dancing Oti deck. Some Booted reels and Irish lip were
danced with estteordinary animation and elemmes.
When the reels were pruposel, there were loud calls fof
Scotch names, and frith name, were heard shouted VW
when jig tunes were demanded. The splendid and
gape...tom dm* of the Peri, nun 400 feet long, and
pthportionately broad, the calm and beautiful nlghtLthe
exhilarating 'trains of music, and the satisfying effects
of a superb banquet, all seemed to hare hulueed the
company on board the Pars tothorouglienJoyment. Eves
the iipel members were Fitting on deek pleated to witness
the enloyusent of likelr inure Juvenile eouipanious, and
thoughts of FDA, Fox, Berke, and Sheridan gave wa to
Apollo and Terpsichore, who uray be considered Sc
have caught the Speaker's eye.
Cherbourg to another "Napoleonic Idea—at last
realised. The nillitary port forms the weetern ex.
enmity of the inner road of the bay ; it la divided from
the western end if the town by fortifications, with
tome and bastions, sweeping in a semicircle Inland, and
abutting on the rushy shore of the bay, «Molt wishes
the walls of the part facing the harbour and break.
water. There is only one entrance from the land side,
strongly fortified. Within the eneeints is the moth per.
test arsenal In the world. It includes In itself all the
means of dieing out en armament. A skip of war might
be built from the keel, launched, Sued, armed, and
monned, without quitting ti basins, froin which It
would peas to the meth, quite ready 1.. engage an
enemy, The csontinualtho Into the (*mime of the rail.
road from Paris, 'bleb is proleeted, will therms It.
capabilities. It may be ethummd with any intend
°amp sad the embarestion of troupe become only s
oalculMlo uf hours. This continuation of the road
fruin the capital to the quays of the arsenal has yet to
be toads; but exclusive of this work, the completeness
of all the arrangements; is what strikes an otherver,
even more than the Sae of the place. In our different
naval eitellialiments of Plymouth, Portsmouth, an
Woolwich we hays ample moans of effecting time same
things, but WWI than one of them would have to Dom
tribute to the result; mar powers are, sail oar onetoni
to make them, or to permit them to be, seettered. The
French system la to eoneentrate moans and form, and
nowhere can that concentration be seen at work
more effectively than at Cherbourg. A shipmf.war
could he built, her guns met, and her crew held ID
reserve in barracks, on the same spot of ground.
The Instrument la perfect.