The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-24 00:00:00

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Captain lion. A. A
Cochrane, C. H.. his hod or date for being out of tho
hands of the dockyard authorities put off, but if the
woik taken in band is to he comple:eil she cannot be
made ready many hours before the mid of the piesent
year. In case of tinergeni.y else couirl Ise sent to WA at
rinse, but in that or rut the work now going on must Ix.
put aside until • more favouraLly opportunity. The
bugs erection on her after-deck, originally intended as
a "rifle tower" has been tilted for far more inthortoit
uses Whon the ship ia in ithise action. Hy the neer
•erangeineuts, which are the seggiations of Cowrie
Cochrane and Commander Tyron, the interior of
torsi Las been fitted with an ungine•room telegrapir.
tubes comniuidiating with the in igazines and
lighting deck, Ice., all of which in ordinary ships or.
placid on the "bri iCc.'' whirls would be the spot inost
likely to insure their speedy destruetion in • slop bk..
List Warrior, intended to fight at ClUell quarters. iii
adihtion to this • snisll hatchway in thu fore part of
the tower, or rather the sleek on which thetower htannis.
opeola directly behind the risen at the wheel on the prr.
tecteil de k, and a ill :table the master, whose ipariers
the rale tewer is supposed to be, to direct the ship'.
courts under the bea•iest batteries, the looilioles
giving him • clear view all round, with a certainty 14
100 orders being earned out to the end un ler his own
immediate sopervision, knowing, as M. does, thlt he
cannot be reaClll-11 in the midst of his dote. while en-
scoeced in the tower. 7! e tower also forma a iinc
tecteil trteno if communication between the fighting
and upper decks. Altogether, it id sort .inly the law
adaptation that could have leis made, under the circum-
stances, of a hidemislookmg its..., the outer iron ea-e
of which, weighing 35 tout, defaces the deck of our
noblest ship.
The Black Prince iron frigate, in the steam basin at
Portsmouth, has her deck...arming with dockyard art,
sans, contractor's siren, and labourer's, and promises
before she is ready for sea to iMorb the entire resource.
ef Portsmouth yard, following in Missile recenteiample
of her companion ship the Warrior at Woolwich. An
energetic captain •ppointed to her might expedite het
outfit, which otherwiai may not he comploted licfor
May. 11462 The this, is again to be placed in dock or,
the removal of the tiutlej. The Black Prince was tin'
ducked a fe• days since to enable the autlioli.
ties to dock the Hutlej, anti now that the
Hutlej is coming out the Black Prince will resume
her place; hence an immenee•inount of delay, which
ia only partially felt at present. but which if we entered
Upoll a naval war would be felt in a very different do
jeer, and would bring matters to nearly a dead-lock in
our chief naval arsenal. The cause is of course the want
ot dock.. eh
all

A notice has been posted at tie entrance gates of
Portsmouth dockyard, for the entry of an additional
number of shipwright., caulkers, and labourer,. Work
is being pushed to the utmost in every department of
the yard to complete the outfit of the chips ordered to
be to-spared for ;lea, the officers for which, it is stated.
have been named by the Admiralty, from the captain
downwards, their crews being held in re-dineo.. to he
a..nt on board at an hour's notioe should their servicer
be indilenly required.
The armourl lated frigate Royal Oak, 51, SOIL
power, is now under the hande of the larpe number oil
ellipwrights and other mechanics employed on her at
Chatham dockyard. Already ahe has completed plank•
ing nearly up to her light line. The armour•platea
will be laid on teak planking, eight inchess in thickness,
cad beyond • certain part the planking will be of
the enormous thickneaa of 12 inches. An improvement
has been effected in the construction of the well for the
screw, by which con.iderable strength will be imparted
to the after portion of the vessel. She will be fitted
with Griffith'. propeller. Although the Royal Oak i.
technically milled a 51-gun frigate it in probable she will
not be armed with more than 441 nearly the
whole of which will be Armstrong guns. From the
extraordinary effort.; now being made to complete lier,
and the rapidity with which die is being pushed for-
ward, there appears every probability that she will be
afloat by the middle of next year. Tim engine. oruered,
for the Bulwark, 19, building at Chatham, are to hr
put ou board the Royal Oak, the present intention of
the Admirality being to cut down the Bulwark, ...Lich
in about three parts completed, and convert her into
an armourplated frigate similar to the Itoyel Oak, in
which case she will not be ready to receive her engines
on board for some time.

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14.PARTURE OF THE ot•RDS FOR CAMADA.—The
The two battalions left their berraeks at 7 on Thursday
morning for Waterloo Station ; large crowds assembled
awl accompanied them. The men were in high spirits,
and responded lustily to the cheering. They were proH
wiled with many little comforts by their officers,l
evidencing the good feeling which particularly,
characterises the rebitions between the men mid
officers in them regiments. At the rail..., •iatiors
entrance there was the usual painful sane—women'
attempting to force their way in ; others sobbing, and
in kisterics. The band. of comet-, did not Way, owing,
to the Prince Consort's death. There were five speeiall
trains, which left consecutively after 8 o'clock.
APPLICATIoYs roe C4HIIIIMBIONR.—UHR•rd* of fia
applie•tions from ofllerni iii London and neighbourhood
for forms for commieeiove in the Naval Reserve Inv
already been made to the Registrar-General.

THE MAXISLAUGHTFR OF MM. CIIRIPTT. —Thomas
Clarke. aged 34, was arraigned at the Stafford
Assizes, on Tuesday. on tl.e charge of killing snit
slaving Martha Chrkty, alias Jane Clark, on the 25th
or .26th of July last, in Wolverhampton. The deceased
was the wife of the master of an American *Towel, who
wino tune ago was sentenced at the Liverpool Air
for a long term of imprisonment, for the manslaughte.
of • portion of his crew, and she was a well-educatedl
woman. She had, however. after the trial of her!
husbend, taken to a dissolute life, and in Wolver-
hampton became the oarsmanr of the prisoner, a man
of forbidding appearance, and very ignorant. a pit
sinker. At his bands she was subjected to frequent
and severe ill-usage, such as beating her with his fist,
and thrusting her head against cupboard* and doors.l
and causing a copious flow of blood from the are -
elsewhere. After one of the*e attacks she Is

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!reeve. who was isinsigted at the lost sesoion or tin'
CA strAl Criminal Court of the murder of Ins sister. a
girl eleven years oil, by straneling her with a rove in
the easel eellar of the lionise where they resided, wish
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