The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

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Mir William Armstrong's gun, after • succession of
trials, has been re ttttt %ILA from the garrison to the Royal
Arsenal, where it has been carefully stored, with strict
Oilier% that no person, whether connected with the esta-
blishment or ctherwiselsliall be allowed to view it with-
out a nptclai order fur that purpose.

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IiVeRrITING VoR TUX IsmAN Folic appears
front is return h.oted on Friday 1111 l riling last, that the
number of recruits now in England for Iler Ilmjenty's
Indian itervice consixts of rei cavalry, 211 infantry, and
2n3, Artillery, malting a total, inclusive of 143 for engi-
neers, of 74:1. The seine return shown that during the
last six yritrn 4.3711 recruits were rained for the Artillery,
11,315 for the infantry, and 3,535 for the cavalry, wak-
ing together 19,223 recruits.

The Secretary at War has homed a circular stating that
tier Majesty's tiovernment judge it tube " inexpedient"
to assemble for training and exercise any militia regi-
ment prior to the 30th of dune, and requests the Lord,
Lieutenant to communicate this to the commanding
officers of the regiments under their charge.
Mir William Armstrong hi reported to have spent no
leas than I:7,000 oil the initiatory experimenta with his
new successful gun. The moulder and forger who
assiated him in his earliest labours have disappeared,
it ii presumed to transfer the processes of the manufac-
ture to a Foreign Ordnance Department.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.—(Di Wednesday an inves-
tigation took place in the board-room of the strand
Union, Bow-street, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of
a man nanitil William Death, aged 40, wlicsie body was
discovered in a complete state of lity, under the fol.
lowing eircunistenoes : Mr. Newell, landlord of the
Tavern, lienover-court, Long-acre, said he bad
known the deceased for about six months as • cuatomer,
but hail, from 116 very eccentric manner, considered him
deranged. Francie Horton, No. ii, Ilart-street, Covent-
G.aden, ..aid the J./wanted MOM on the Thursday night,
about 10 o'clock, and be shaved lii, ; but on account
of the letentus of the hour he refused the request of the
devalued to drew his heir. The deceased lidt his shop,
muttering to himself that now he had £l,OOO he should
open • publichouse ; hut he must first have a candle to
sue to drew !Milnelf. William Ailkinson, beadle at the
Piatsa, Covent-Garden, then state.' that he had for some
time known the demoted, but had latterly coneiderul
him of very weak intellect. On Friday night lie (wit.
new) dreamt that ileciewed had committed 'suicide by
hanging himself in the [IMO' in White liart-streei.
the following thy (Saturday) he became so unewy that
he determined to visit deceased • for the dream nude a
deep improwion on him. Ile 'first, however, went to
Mr. Nolen's room, MO told the porter there who n eo-
,,,,litrd to •0001OlnOly (hi entering the liouae, No,
3, White liart•atreet, they called to demeamiii, but on
reoeiving nu answer prutesiled to the front room on the
first floor, and on entering, were horrified to see thu
deceased lying on his face in a corner of the room It, •
pOrfOC• MAW of nudity, and imitu dead. Medial mitist•
lOW WWI 01/tAOWII WithOO• 111•111. UVidollOtl of Mr.
Psynter, surgeon, showed that after a careful KIM
iii-
i,ute p.ol 111100111 I moloation 11., woo to (him' c000lu•
sion timid &learned loul died from apoplexy. (hi looking
at ihimmeed he found that Ids few wee mitt. disfigured
or flattened from lying co
an it. lie nsidered deceased
must have been dead shout two days. It further op.
that the deceased had OW deposited hi a savings
Mrik,d which from remarks lie hail mods, lie intended
to keep, so that lie should he entitled to vote if the new
Worm 11111 became law. The coroner, In summing up,
remarked that the mos wail one of the most estraortli•
nary ever brought under his unities, but had been mode
linhe elem. The jury alter a alma Interval, returned a
sunhat in aosurdanee with the medical testimony. The
hmlar7 then terminated.