The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-07 00:00:00

At-mu anb Nabu.

The depot of the InOth Regiment, arrived in Porte-
mouth, from Aldershott, Wednesday morning, on the
way to Parkhurst, Isle of Wight.
A considerable increase has taken place during
the put week in the number of seamen arriving
in Portuuouth, who have volunteered for the Royal ser-
vice at the different outports.
MILITIA.—The Royal South Glocester Militia, under
the command of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant H.
W. Newman, has received orders from the Lord-Lieu-
tenant of the county to assemble for 21 days' training
and exercise on the 14th Mat.

The steam transport Britannia has commenced filling
in • heavy cargo of guns, solid sLut, and other war
stores for Gibraltar; and a large amount of tonnage has
been engaged fur the Mediterranean and other British
possessions.
The order for the new engines of the new steam rain
about to be constructed at Millwall has been given by
the Admiralty to John Penn and Son. They are to
be of 1250 indicated horse-power, and it is expected that
they will secure to this iron-plated man-of-war a speed
of fourteen knots.

Forty wen of the IN iltelnre Militia volunteered for
the Marines (which corps at Kesent we believe has out
above • dozen inen in Fortun barracks fit for embarea-
tion), and 26 out of the 40 were refused for • Ili w ilar
reason.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry G. W. Smith, G.C.8., com-
manding the northern and midland district, s-ill relin-
quish his command in September next. The gallant
officer succeeded Gen. Earl Cat4cart in 1854. it has
not transpired who is to succeed Sir Harry.
The whole of the shipwrights and the greater part of
the mechanics ordered to be hired at Portsmouth dock-
yard have now been entered. A deficiency still eznits
in the number of labourers. The sawyers on Monday
refused to coomience their work, owing to ionic griev-
ances connected with the new scale of pay. The men,
however, returned to their work after receiving a com-
munication from the authorities about 2 p.m.
In order to encourage the entry of mechanics and sea-
men for Her Majesty's service a notice has been posted
at Chatham dockyard gates to the effect that the Linda
of the Admiralty will give a gratuity of £1 to every
person bringing a shipwright, caulker, or seamen to the
dockyard, provided the person brought is fit for Her
Majesty's service. The sum of 10s. will also be given to
any person bringing • seaman under 25 years of age
who shall he entered as • first-class ordinary seaman
Instructions were on Tuesday received at Woolwich,
by order of the General Commanding-in-Chief, to carry
out forthwith, commencing from the Ist inst., as pre•
scribed fur the reconstruction of the snips of Royal
Artillery, the abolition of the Adjutants' and field
batteries' detachments. The regimental staff of the
field batteries was accordingly ordered to be transferred
to the depot brigade formed to supersede the above-
named detachment* at Woolwich. The depit brigade is
to be permanent at Woolwich, and will furnish recruits
for the foreign brigades, and entire brigades will carry
on Um relish.

Tug Eerim.n FACIORY.—The total sum expended
at the Enfield Factory from the lst of April 185 e, to the
314 of March, 1t459, inclusive, was—Fur buildings,
1:9,356 6e. 9d. ; machinery, £2,90i Ism. 21.; stereo,
£41,241 Is.; salaries, £2,514 15s. ; wages. £94.56
de. 1111. ; and miscellaneous expenditure, £.1.6.0 19..
making a total of I:153,218 1.. gd. Tile number of
musket rides, made by machinery, complete, and deli-
vered into store within the smile period from Enfield,
was 57.256. . .

Since the publication of the Royal warrant offering
increased advantages to young men entering the craps
of Royal Marines, recruiting for that branch of the ser-
vice has proceeded satisfactorily, rind there now appears
to be little doubt that the 2,000 additional men required
to augment the Artillery and Light Infantry companies
will be raised in a very short time. For the last few
weeks the average number of recruits who have joined
the head-quarters of the Chatham division of Royal
Marines has been 40, and this number is increasing. A
body of 60 fine young men have arrived front London
dunng the put fortnight, and, on presenting themselves
at head-imarters, passed the medical inspector and were
accepted. On Monday morning a batch of recruits
arrived from Hull, having been sent up to head-quer-
term by First-Lieutenant C. L. A. Farmer, who is super-
intending the recruiting for the Royal Marines in that
district.
The launch of Her Majesty's slop Charybdis took
place at Chatham Dockyard on Wednesday afternoon,
in the presence of a large number of spectators and
under the most favourable circumstances. The Charyb-
dis was built under the superintt nilence of Mr. Loire,
late master shipwright at Chatham, and his snocessor,
Mr. 0. W. Lang, from the de.iigns of Admiral Sir
Baldwin W. Walker, Surveyor of the Navy. The fol-
lowing are her principal dimensions :—Length between
perpendiculars, 200 feet ; length of keel for tonnage,
171 feet 9,1 inches ; extreme breadth, 40 feet 4 Mama ;
breadth for tonnage, 40 feet : breadth moulded, 39 feet
4 inches ; depth in bold, 23 feet 11 inches; burden in
tons, 1,46221-14. The Charybdis is to be fitted as •
screw steamer, and will be supplied with engines of 4(X).
horse power. Her armament will be very heavy, and
will consist of 20 8-inch guns, each of 60 cwt. and nine
feet in length, ranged on the upper deck, and one pivot
68-pounder of 95 awl. and 10 feet in length. The cere-
mony of christening the ship was performed by Miss
rope, eldest daughter of Mr. C. Pope, Master attendant
of Chatham Ih ickyard. The Charybdis is to be imme-
diately supplied with her engines and brought forward
for the steam reserve. A large screw steamer will be at
once laid down on the saute slip as that from which the
Charybdis wee launched.