The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

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A London Gazette Extraordinary was published on
Tuesday night, containing • Royal Proclamation, for-
bidding the exportation from the United Kingdom of
arms, sunnunition, and military stores of all kinds: An
order in Council prohibits the exisirtation of the same
materiel of war from the islands of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man, except by
license of the governors of those islands.
EXGLIKH NAVAL PILKPARATIoNB.—The following are
details of the steam reserve Beet in Medway or at
Chatham :—First division, 12 steagnera, all but two
ready to leave at • few days notice. In addition, the
Severn, 51 guns, is about to added to the first division;
2nd division, 12 steamers, and 3rd division, 24 steamers.
Five other vessels are not included, nor the largo mortar
boats laid up ready for service. Total guns, 1,279.
At Chatham, the Piladcw, 21 guns, Rattlesnake, 21, and
Galetea. 20, were ordered to be prepared for sea with
all possible despatch. Fifty more workmen are taken
on. The 100-pounder Am-unstrung guns, the issue of
which have been temporarily suspended during some
experiments, will now be again delivered for service.
The Defence, iron-plate frigate, will soon be ready for
sea. The crew will be sent to her directly. The Ad-
miralty have ordered a special report of the shortest
time that can be taken to prepare vessels ordered for
commission at Sheerness. There is an impression in
London political circles, that when the news of the
Nashville's destruction of the Harvey Birch and her
corning into Southampton reaches America, it will tend
to stimulate the war-feeling of the mob, and may f-r-
-ther embarrass the Cabinet.
EIJIMPISAN A IIMANIESTI4.—The Courtier du Dinsanche
publishes an article strongly insisting on the advantages
of disarmament for the different nations of Europe.
In the course of its observations it says :—" The present
armaments of Europe are purely defensive. Moreover,
they have nut been taken with a view to the internal
peril with which each or such a Power may be menaced,
lint to a war between State and State—a European
war. The annual expenses for war of the different
Powers are now pretty nearly as follows :—England,
1,1 10,000.000 I.; Austria, 500,630,00 f.; Prussia,
170,034,000 f.; Russia, 524.0C4,043 f.; France,
625,000,030 f.; Turkey, 200.013,0 EN/ f. • the petty
, German Stites. 300.C10,000 f.; Spain, 308,000 000 f. ;
and Belgium. Portugal, Switserlaiel. Lc., 800,000,0001. ;
Total, in round figures, 4,3.10,000410 W. ! Ten years
, back the military budget of England wee only a third
of what it is now. Austria, in 1852, disbereed for her
army Wm than cue-half of the 54.0,1X3,0001. she now
speride and it is to be noted that, in 1817. that Power
dispensed for its general budget less than it now di..
bums in the War Deportment alone. The same in-
cream, has taken place proportionately in all the other
European budgets. Europe keeps at this moment under
arms 2,300,000 soldiers! She had, no doubt, not so
many as at the wars of the first Empire, and yet she is
now at pose! The cost of maintaining a soldier Is
ealeulated at If. 25e. a-dey, or, on an sever, at 5001.
a-year • and consaquentle. 2.31 1,000 soldiers absorb,
unprotinctively, nearly 5,090,000.0001 per annum The
difference between this figure and that of 4,500,C 10,000 f.
above-mentioned prises from all the espenses of the
army rot being paid in cash, for the cost of barracks,
Its.. ke." The article terminates in these words :
" Either Europe will disarm and save herself, or she
will remain in her heavy armour, and—awl the wow
quinces are easy to divine."

Inkpen, who was lately found guilty of =wadi( tbto
servant girl at Deptford, by junipieg with her ill, iii•
Surrey Canal, has been remitted at A• capital_ dump.
Mc Init.—Great excitement wee created at carafes'
Tuesday morning by the arrival of the American dein
Plow!. e, with • mew of eight Spaniards, tatarpd wtt
• double murder on the high seas. The victims are the
chief inste of the Teruel and • minor. The ism eluirred
with the crime are in custody, and were brought apt.,
examination. As the Cardiff magistrates have MI
juris.iirtioo the murderers will, in all probability, be lest
to Au.erica for trial.
A limn named Atkins was tried at Maidateen sa
Thurschty for the murder of his wife. The deed, whisk
woo committed under circumstances of peculiar atrocity,
elks clearly brought house to him by the *videos' of We
daughter, a girl eleven years of age, who witagemd
and dstailed the circumstances of the murder. It
appeared from other witneeses that the unfortunate
couple had lived • wretched life for mime time previews,
the husband being indanied with jealousy, for whist',
however, there appeared no mama") cum' imausel for the priaoner rested his defence au the plea of
insanity, and the jury rammed • verdict of DO ray
on that mud.0
Tux RBAIOOII WJASCAILIIIILL —The
adjourned inquest on the body of the old weals, has
Einnierson, barbarously murdered at • railway onewing
on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Carpal/, eit
the 21st ult., was resumed on Monday, at Dot/baby.
The report of the medical teen who had ;wade the pul-
evolve examination of the body showed that death bed
resulted from the injurin received on the bead. Th•
wounds were such as might bare been indicted with •
hedgeoduher, such as that found near the
marked with hair and blood. Several witnesses= been examined, the Coroner mid the evidence, me hes
had directly establish,d the feet that the poor wombat
had been wilfully iiinrderwl by some person or
and that their object had beim plunder. Tb.diffi-
culty now was, who earths pertain who coonnitted the
crime They had made little or no progress towards
the solution of that question. It was their dais
either to return a verdict of wilful murder against seem
person or persons unknown, or adjourn again. 'Die
jury decided to adjourn.

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FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1681.