The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

i-cotlano.

THE TIME. GC.N AC EDlABERuri.—Experiauentii for
testim; the beat positien Of the signal gun, mei the
relative raie.,e of imililsili:r of viii' a size* of
e 'mem end en.ige. if pow,ier. hero ion:Word 02.
Wednesil.y at the Castle, tinter tie superietendenee 01
Maderli 1111 l i, r Finliy. The discharges began at I.lf
mist 10 5.. m., and were iontinuesl every haoc till half-
pest 3 pen. The first three shots if the sus were tired
from a 24Lpounder, close to the flao.t.iff on the 141(-
11'1.os Ilattely, and puintin4 in the direction of Ilse
Celh.n.l,lll. in order, as far AS I.o%Miltle 141 CilibrACO
ClWaly WiIIIIA the range if its sound both the Ohl and
New Town. Tlio shuts were heard all over the city met
as far as Dalk, ith. Arr.ingi mehts are Icing made for
comm.:lira the anti with Ille liii al Ob-ervatory on the
t •,,p,,11-1,111 hod the tinisehall on Nelson's Misisunieut Iy
means of an electric wile, slid for 1 reparibg t r
mechanieni by which it i. to be fired. Already Mi
t leetrie ahe (lii means of which constant ce es
lion is kept tip between the Eilinlinruli Royal Conserva-
tory vinl drat at Greensick) h., Iwo. carried over the
side of the Calton-hill to the North Illiti-11 RailireV,
and an i stimate hi being idelirwrd by the Electra
Telegc.irili Company so to the expellee of carrying PA
niiorlsied wire front tide point over the liouso.tops to
the Castle. It is anticipated that everything will be in
working order within, at most, a lt frosts this time,
and that thsily thereafter the inhabit:alt* in every
quarter of the city will be en 1..,11, wile ~it leaves%
their 11011,C. Or the OVOlft.itel, ill wkielt they miry I liAriee
1., be engaged, to tat tI C:r i :v. ks aunt watches accord-
ing to the correct Gri rue iii, time,
Ens NkW Wit' M A Alit:T.(loo,N. A 'novelise nt is in pro•
aria.% for the Teets ratiiM of tie old nlll.l rirIMCIVIC
Market-cross, of Eilioloirgli, which AAA re -.1 front
its 1411.46.1 i OA the High street above a century ago,
and the destroy, rs id a bit It are the sill+ et of the
" minetrs Is issah-iiii" in Scott'a poem of Marninne. The
city erisan is arroeistrel with many hhtorical and tea-
ditienal incidents—with the i xveution if the murilorra
of King Jewels I. of Scotland ; with the prochissiation
mud to love been myeteriously made at midnight iti
1513, before the departure of the fated Jails IV. for
Florlden, summoning the King and his knights to the
bar of Meeeen, and with many celebrated !accents awl
proclamations. In 1617, when James VI. (James I. of
Euglansl) returned to visit his licotttsh subjects whom
lat hail left in 1603 to assume Elisabeth's crown, the
cross was renamed to make way for the great proreasion
that then Ise k plate. Soon after a new cross was built,
but in a degenerate style of architecture, it is believed,
and this crow aubiiiiiteil till 1756, said WWI the acne of
the execution of the Canierunian Covenanters in 1681,
Mid other historical eireists. The wily remaining frog.
wilt of the old cross is the centre pillar, which has re-
mained in uhscurity fur above a center, on the tatata
of Drum, and was recently offered back to the city by
the proprietor. A *ketch of the propelled restoration
has been prepared by the city architect, Mr. Cousin.
It will be an ociagonal struetute of open Gothic
columns, supporting a halcony, from which the Scottish
heralds ail! read the Royal proclamations, and in the
centre of which will stand the old pillar (a relic of the
original city cross) surniouuted by the unicorn rampant
bearing a Sh Andrew's cross.