The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-05 00:00:00

AFGWiIBTAN.

This illeaderd emmeepandsat— M Cimsdahar tele.
that preparallens are Wins boron fOraette occupation of Mast city daring winter, but
that as @applies cannot be obtained there for the
whole of the British forces, IS bus been &laded t 4
divide the troops, bodies of which will be posted .k
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three other towns. Even after this separation has
bees Masted there will be a look of food, and some of
the regiments will return to India • This
6°.°4•Datalut stailduili shows the worthiewnees of
the argument. of the&doomed school," who have
that Oandahar and its neighbourhood was
literally a land of milk and honey. The Yakoob
f=arccording to the same writer, is still active at
, and avow their intention to organise 'Mucks
on the British until Yakoob is again taken Into
favour.

KR. GLADSTONE AND THE CHANCEL.

LORBHTP.
TIN Loudon correspondent of Um Birma#oo P.
says it is currently reported in the best informed circles
that Mr. Gladstone will, ah on medical advice,
shortly resign Ms pod.. obuio.ior of the Exchequer.
The
14 D*:rlit relem hears from Vienna that Mr.
Gamine leave Omnantobis with his family next
month, and short!y after his arrival in England be
will be anPnintell Chancellor of the Exchequer.

ALLEGED DESIGN TO BLOW UP THE
GREAT WESTERN LIMITED MAIL

A telegram was sent from Bootland-yard to all the
Police stations In London on Pridey morning
announcing the discovery, at Brook Green, of six
charges of gun cotton, together with six percussion craps
and six feet of connecting fume. The gun coital was
marked, "Cotton Powder Mills, Faversham." It is
supposed that It was intended to blow up the Great
Western limited mail, for the purpose of robbery or to
Insure the death of some obnoxious personage travelling
by the train. From experiments made at Woolwich
Arsenal, it has hese found that the peerage of a train
over • percassloe asp is sufficient to ignite • charge of
r destroy
and that a charge h will ad on or near a rail wi
the railway Wolf, and kill all within • reason-
able reach at the moment of the explosion.
The gun cotton to bare =toad on one
of the plass of land which run between the Great
Western, Metropolitan District, and South-Western
lines. It is understood that it was discovered late CO
Thursday night, and IS le believed there were live
="which would have sufficed to cense a
eiplosion. There are several large reiddencee
near, but it seems improbable that any attempt to
destroy them was contemplated.
Lena.

The remit of inquiries made an Saturday in various
quirts's, oofal and otherwise, clearly points to the
feet that a mint 11111101111 i ciunnernmery alarm bee
been mated by the published amounts of the
discovery of cartridges 01_1pm-cotton end a portion al
riga Pemba tubing et Drool Reareeersudth,
tat Tho
the zsdartititit, ogarititme=gaineorldni. As
the authorities at Scotland Yard of what
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cartridges exploded when any person was passing
near to them the quantity of gettoottan was not
suarient to cause @lay bodily Injury, but ceetainly
might he,, ere= the passer-by • fright. Somehow or
other the discovery nen been amoolated with the
Great Western Beltway, but the spot whereon the
gm-cotton and tubing were found le, at the very
least, two miles distant as the arow glee from any
part of the Orent Western system. It is also •
considerable distance—about three-quarters of a mite
—from the converging lines of the Metropolitan,
South-Western, and District Railway systems. The
pion where the discovery was made is • pert of the
green close to a much-used cricket ground, and on its
adds are several old-fashioned houses with forecourts.
Close by blencoperatime for excavating, prepara-
tory to the la of foundations for future homes,
are being on, and it is supposed that the
cartridges, eePe, and imblN were accidentally dropped.
The polies authorities, however, say a series of
heartless practical jokes are being played, and that in
all probability the explosive materials were lad in the
eity of many railway lines to create • some
amongst the travelling public. They utterly re**
the theory that an outrage was contemplated.