The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

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The strew atemn-frigate Ariatine. of 26 guns, was
launched from Deidurd Dockyard on Saturday after.
noon week.
The Score/oleos has a paragraph to the effect that the
Duke of Cambridge ii "likely to retire from his high
office at the Horne Guards. on amount of some dis-
closures, or reflections, in the report of the Committee
on the sale of Army Conmiissions."
A deputation respecting the North Loudon Rifle
Corps had an interview with the Marquis of Salisbury
Wednesday. at the Council-office, to submit rules for
Approve'. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Alfred
Alexander, Stephen Pliiloot, WilSala Robertson, James
Parker, and William Sherwood.
A deputation from the Sheffield Volunteer Rifle
Corps had an interview with General Peel Wednesday,
at the War Department. The deputation was headed
by Earl Fitzwilliam, and consisted of Mr. Overend,
Deputy Lieutenant ; Mr. Nathaniel Creswick, Mr.
Henry Webster, Mr. William Prest, Mr. Joseph
Rodgers, jun., Mr. S. Newbould, and Mr. J. E. Vickers.
THE CHANNEL FLErr.—Rear•Adutiral J. E. Erskine
has been appointed to hoist his flag on board the Edgar,
as second in counnand of the Channel fleet.
TIIE ARMY AND ATHLETIC SPORTS.—The Commis-
sioner for inquiring into the medical and sanitary affairs
of the army having recommended that encouragement
be given "for all athletic gnome, such as fives, encket,
quoits, and singlestick for gymnastic exercises, and that
the men he employed in different kinds of labour when
possible." the War Office authorities announce that they
are ready to consider applications from regiments for the
supply of the necessary apparatus, for the hire of cricket
groundb,
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TFIR ARMSTRONG (11'N FACTORY AT NEWCA STLE-ON-
TT NE.—The factory for the manufacture of Sir William
George Armstrong's rifled ordnance at the Elswick
Engine Works, Newcastle-on Tyne, is now nearly coin.
pleted, and will shortly be brought into full use. It
consists of five buildings, or "shops," and of these the
largest is already finished. This shop was commenced
In July last year, and is 312 feet in length. It is
entirely devoted to blacksmiths' work, and will be fitted
with enormous furnaces and forge-hammers for weld-
ing the coils of which the body of the gun,is composed.
The magnitude of these is such that one Of the anvil-
blocks recently cast for this shop weighed no less than
211 tons. Of the four smaller shops two arc for the
manufacture of the machinery in connection with the
mechanical part of the gun: one is expressly for mak-
ing the shot and shell, and the fourth is a "fitting-shop."
Several other building,' in connection with the ordnance
works are about to be cotumenced. The work of cast-
ing has already begun, and a 70-pounder gun was
turned out last week. When the whole of the shops
are completed the factory will turn out guns of various
sizes at the rate of four per week. Great strictness is
to be exercised as regards the men employed at the
works. Each is to have assigned to him his own
position, and beyond it he is not to be allowed to
advance.
OUR DRYING!!! AT GIBRALTAR.—One of the Spanish
journals has • letter from Gibraltar which contains this
strewn) assertion :—" The existing defences of Gibraltar,
though apparently so formidable, cannot resist modern
artillery! An engineer sent by the English Government
to examine them has declared that the only thing they
ale fit for is to fill up the hisses, and to facilitate the
entrance into the place of an enemy. lam assured that
fis e well-aimed shot fmui Cllllllollsullioed to convince the
engineer in question of the truth of his opinion—an opin-
ion which, if expressed • abort time ago, would have called
1 forth scuffs from even competent persons. The quality
of the stone is very had; an.l when cannon is fired at it
frightful storms HO of blocks and small stones fall from
the walls." The letter, however, says that the English
are displaying extraordinary activity in constructing new
batteries and strengthening the 010 ones; that they are
collecting "incalculable quantities" of war material'
and that one of the batterita in course of construction,
pilled Queen Victiria'a, is to be armed with thirty Arm-
strong guns of " monstrous size," and is already so for-
midable that" it resembles • work of Titans.
The eixar-shaped experimental steamer Winans,
built at Baltimore, recently made a second trial-trip. and
' attained, it is said, a speed of fourteen miles an hour.
She is to be made sharper and longer.

It may be profitable to our fair readers to know that the
OLIOTIRLD PATS= &nem, whieh has been exclusively used in
HER MAJ EMIT'S Licsonv for many years, may now be
obtained from all nispectabk Grocers almost as cheep m the
niost common kind, made, for although it nemeses* costs
them more, the large quanUties sold yields hi the aggregate.
a larger prod' than the inferior kinds, and momorer the gle-
osni ham the satisfaction of selling an article which they know
will please their customers, and are at the Name Um* the
medium of supplying the middle and working classes with the
saute article as is used in the getting up of the Lams and
Linens of HER MAJESTY and the ROYAL Pentair, am,
which the Quint's Laundress, with her great raper...nice
and every means at her connismnd for procuring the serf
best of everything, has pronounced Tom 11111 TUT FINN?
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