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shore of the boundless ocean. It is the retreat of all who
are given to thought, and who, far from society, have a
heart to calm, a soul to fortify,

buryness. The principal feature in the invention is the plan
adopted for entirely preventing the nuts of the screws being
broken off by the violence of the blows aimed at the target
and against the head of the bolts—an accident which the
numerous recent trials have proved to be of constant occur-
rence whenever there is what is termed an impulsive strain
upon the bolts. The defect has been especially felt during
late experiments at Shoeburyness, where iron plates at-
tached to the targets by the existing description of screw
bolts, have been exposed to fire of heavy ordnance. The
reason of such accidents is obviously the diminution of the
strength of the bolts caused by the thread of the screws
being cut into their substance. In the armour bolts just
completed at Chatham Dockyard Major Palliser has com-
pletely remedied this fatal defect by so constructing his
bolts that their screw threads at the end are, as it were in
relief, or, in other words, so much thicker than the bolts
themselves. The stem or shank of the bolt is purposely
made slightly smaller in diameter than the bottom of the
thread of the screw, the effect of which is that the exten-
sion due to the strain will occur throughout the reduced
part of the bolt, and not on the thread of the screw, which
latter, it is suggested, may, if required, be constructed of
steel and Netilded to the shank. Numerous experiments
have demonstrated that in iron and other metallic bars sub-
jected to sudden tensile strains, the extension occurs wholly
at the weakest points in the bar. In the late official trial
of Major Palliser's invention made at Sheeburyness before
the Ordnance Select Committee, four different methods of
fastening armour-plates were tested—namely, 1, that by
rivets ; 2, by means of Warrior bolts; 3, by improved
Warrior bolts; and, 4, by Major Palliser's method as de-
scribed above. The result of the experiments, as recorded
in the official report of the competitive trial, was an easy
triumph for Major Palliser's method. All the bolts on the
occasion referred to held firm, and none snapped their
screw-heads, notwithstanding the heavy pounding to which
the plates they fastened were subjected, while the other
three plans for bolting on the armour-plates failed sooner
or later. The new bolts just completed at Chatham
Dockyard will be employed in securing the iron plates
attached to the new target in course of construction at
Shoeburyness, alongside other iron plates attached by dif-
ferent methods.

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factory condition. In the afternoon the regiment was drawn
up on parade, and was put through a variety of evolutions
incidental to such an occasion, by Major Jas, Ainslie. The
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it was put through some rapid movements by Colonel Budd,
and through the bayonet exercise by Captain Hawley.
The 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment and the 85th
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John Pennefather and the Brigadier. The 75th (Stirling-

shire) Regiment was inspected by Major-General Rus-
sell, and acquitted itself to his entire satisfaction.
It was put through the manual and platoon exercises
by Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, and through the bayonet
exercise by Major Maunsell. Oa Wednesday the regi-
ments inspected were the 14th Hussars, the 2d battalion
60th Rifles, and the 83d Regiment. The Hussars were in-
spected by Major-Gen. Hodge, who pursued the same
minute line of examination as in the case of the Royals on
Monday, and with a like satisfactory result. The regiment
was under the command of Lieut.-Col. Sir W. Russell, C.B.
The 2d battalion 60th Rifles, under the command of Col.
Palmer, C. 8., was inspected by Major-Gen. Bates on Wed-
nesday and Thursday , and performed a series of very inte-
resting manoeuvres in a highly creditable manner. The 83d
Regiment. under Lieut.-Col. Hankey, was inspected by
Major-Gen. Russell, and proved itself to be in a high state
of efficiency. It was put through the manual and platoon
exercise in admirable style by Major Venables, through the

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The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Leo-
minster Agricultural Society was held at Leominster

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on Friday. The show of stock was small, attributed
to the scarcity of sheep, but, except of horses, were

of a very inferior quality, In the evening there
was the usual dinner, at which the president, Mr.
Chadwick, took the chair, and there was also pre.

sent Lord Bateman, the Hon. Cecil Hanbury Len-
nox, M.P., Mr. Gawthorne Hardy, M.P., and Mr.

King King, M.P.

bayonet exercise by Major Bates, and through battalion and
other movements by Capts. Wakefield, Huyshe, and Kars-
lake. The 39th Regiment was inspected on Friday by

After the usual toasts,
Lord BATEMAN being called upon to respond to
that of " The Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire,"

Major-Gen. Russell: The regiment was under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Col. Munro, C. 8., and it performed a num-
ber of minute and important evolutions in first-rate style
and to the entire satisfaction of the brigadier inspecting.
The inspections will be continued during the present week.
The 23d company of the Royal Engineers is under orders
to proceed from Aldershot on the 17th inst. to Chatham,
and will be replaced by the Ist company from Devonport.
On Saturday the undermentioned parties left Aldershot
Camp for the School of Musketry at Hythe :—Lieut. and
Adj. Lee and one private, Ist Royal Dragoons—Lieut. and
Adj. Grieve, V.C., and one private, 2d Dragoons—Lieut.
and
Hosier AdjAdj
andt. Raperone
private,
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private,
Dragoons--Lieut.
a g o 39th Regiment—Lieut.
o ns—Lieut. Bradford and

one private, 39th Regiment.
A fatal accident occurred at Aldershot during the field-

day operations in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge
last week. A man named George Jackson, a private be-

longing to the Royal Dragoons, was thrown from his horse)
and sustained such severe injures that he expired a few

days afterwards, and was buried on Friday with the usual
military honours. The Rev.H. Huleat,who during the past
three years has occupied the office of principal chaplain to
the forces at Aldershot, has been transferred to Hounslow,
to succeed the Rev. Mr Hodges, appointed to the principal

chaplaincy at Aldershot.
Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., commanding the
south-western military district, on Saturday inspected the
69th Regiment, under the command of Col. E. Mackirdy,
on Haslar-common. After the usual manoeuvres of a firing
field-day, which were performed with celerity and precision
his lordship proceeded to the now barracks occupied by the
regiment at Gosport, with the regiment on its return to
quarters from H7slar, and inspected the hospital, schools,
the regimental and company books, the men's dinners, &c.,
with all of which he was well satisfied. At the close he ex-
pressed to Col. Mackirdy and his officers the pleasure he
would have in being enabled to make a highly favourable
report of the condition of the regiment to the Field Marshal
Commanding in Chief.

The iron-cased screw steamship Prince Consort, 35,Capt.
G. 0. Willis, C, 8., and the iron ship Hector, 24, Capt, G.
W. Preedy, C.B , which arrived in Plymouth Sound from
the eastward on Saturday morning, commenced receiving
coal immediately, and in the afternoon left the Sound by
the eastern ehannel. Towards dusk the Channel squadron
hove in sight to the eastward. Yesterday morning at day-
light they were observed again under canvas only, cruizing.
Between 9 and 10 o'clock they were seven miles from the
breakwater, in two divisions, close hauled, beating up
Channel. Wind S.E. ; fresh breeze, puffy. Besides the
Prince Consort and Hector, there were the Edgar, 17, Capt.
G. T. P. Hornby, flag of Rear Admiral Dacres, C.B.—the
iron ship Black Prince, 41, Capt. Lord F. Kerr—the iron
ship Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. A. Cochrane—the iron
ship Defence, 16, Capt. A. Phillimore—and two others, one
of which is supposed to be the iron cased screw steamship
Research, 4, Capt. A. Wilmshurst.
,The Vesuvius, 6, paddle sloop, Capt. R. V. Hamilton,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, from Halifax, Nova
Scotia, from which port she sailed on the 16th September,

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calling in at Scilly for fuel. The Vesuvius has brought
home a number of naval and military supernumeraries and
invalids from her Majesty's ships and troops serving in the
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shell were taken out of the vessel yesterday at Spithead, and
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The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, has a
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Portsmouth, put into Falmouth on Saturday afternoon.
There was a strong east wind, and she was short of fuel.
She has:on board the 2d battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards,
under command of Col. Stephenson, 650 officers and men,
with 120 women and children.
Her Majesty's gunboat Blazer, from Galway to Queens-
town, J. F. Prowse, R.N., lieutenant commanding, put in
at Crookhaven, Cork, on Thursday last.
Hei Majesty's screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 1,466 tons, 400
horse power, left Chatham-harbour at an early hour en Sa-
turday morning with the intention of making her official trial
of speed at the measured mile, near Maplin Sands, in order
to enable the Admiralty officials to ascertain her steaming
qualities since the numerous alterations and improvements
recently effected on board. For some days previous to the
trial the corvette's decks were crowded with dockyard me-
chanics engaged in getting the vessel out of hand, and a
numerous body of artisans and labourers were working on
board up to 11 o'clock the previous night, in order that the
Cadmus might be ready to proceed on her official trial the
following morning. Late on Friday it was discovered by
the officials connected with the engineer. department of the
a pitch of 24ft. to one of 20ft. The
dockyard that the screw—a new Griffiths propeller, which
has been substituted for the old Admiralty bladed screw—
uperintend the trial on Saturday were
screw—
required altering in its pitch, and accordingly. several hours
were occupied in clearing the well, lifting the screw, and
inspector. of machinery. afloat and chief
officials
otnh the
boardblades
to froms
Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., commanding the Steam Re-
servo n
e;
el:larftoßaatk;eris,,irHutchins,
master shipwright;
Mr Blakey, Queen's pilot, and several others. The
With a force of five.
draught of water on the Cadmus leaving. the harbour was
15ft. 6in. forward and 17ft. aft, which scarcely gave
moorings at Folly
suffi-
cient immersion for the screw. The wind.at the time was
working of her
ndhetrhe
Point
blowing it nagaf t
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ethefstrongect
Cadmusfwroams
discovered
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on vea
eadrs
et
lwde
fa
tri
screw, and it became evident that the propeller blades
were set at too great a pitch. Under these circum-
stances Captain Hall decided on not placing the
steamer on the measured mile, and a run was only taken to
the Nore and back, the working. of the screw being still un-
satisfactory. The official trial of speed was accordingly
deferred, and in the afternoon the Cadmus brought up along-
side the Benbow, 72, where the workmen immediately com-
menced making some further alterations in her screw. In
this they were employed the remainder of the day, the trial
at the measured mile being postponed. Opportunity will
now be taken to give the corvette a better trim, for which
purpose 200 tons of coal will be placed on board. It is
stated at Chatham that the Cadmus will be commissioned
in few days by Capt. J. F. Ross, the same officer who paid
that vessel off when put out of commission at Chatham.
The first supply of the new description of bolts for secu-
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Major W. Palliser, late of the 18th Hussars, which, on the
recommendation of the Ordnance Select Committee, hos
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said the office of their representatives in the House
of Commons at these agricultural meetings was to
give an account of their stewardship for the past

year, which, no doubt, these present would do.
For his part he would say that he thought they
had reason to congratulate themselves that
the sagacity of a Prime Minister, 80 years
old, had certainly saved them from a great

curse—namely, a war with foreign countries,
(Cheers.) He said that not from any personal regard
for Lord Palmerston, for he and those around him

had joined in a vote of censure on the Government

in reference to the treatment of Denmark and the

way in which the negotiations in reference to that

country had been conducted ; but it was impossible
for any one to look at the state of Europe, to look

at the arrogance of some foreign countries, and to
the attitude maintained by France, by Austria, and

by Italy, without congratulating themselves on the
fact that they had not been involved in war, In
offering this as a matter of congratulation, he did
not mean to say that the country approved of the
spoliation of Denmark. They remembered the re-
ception that had been given to the Princess of
Wales when she came to this country, and there
could be no doubt that the woe, the misery, and the
disaster which befel her fatherland came home to
the hearts of all in this country: (Hear.)

The health of " The County Members" having
been given from tha chair,
Mr KING KING said he should take advantage of
the rule of the society which excluded party politics,

but he might say that in the absence of party politics,
with peace abroad and prosperity at home, they
were happily left to work out these problems of

social and moral improvement which they all more
or less had at heart.

Mr GAIVTIIORNE HARDY said the time was no
far distant whem members of Parliament would be
called upon to give on the hustings that account of
their stewardship to which Lord Bateman had al-
luded, and when that time came he should be ready
to make his report. In the leading journal, the
other day, they were told that no members of Par-
liament had a right to appear before their constitu.
ents without giving them full instructions on the
things of the day; but, nevertheless, they found
the pages of that same paper filled with reviews
of books, with letters on the rearing of
bees, and on sewing machines. (Loud laughter.)
With regard to agricultural prospects, they were
now subjected to unrestricted competition, and it
behoved them by means of improved agriculture to
get out of the land more than they had hitherto
done. Agriculture had made great strides in the
last few years, looking to the implements, the build-
ings, and the skill which farmers exercised in what
he might call the manipulation of manners. He re-
commended farmers to carefully study the blue book
recently issued by Parliament on the subject of the
sewage of towns. Passing to another subject, he
observed that Parliament had taken in hand the sub.
ject of the education of the poor, and also of the
rich, and it was now proposed to have an inquiry as
to the education of the middle classes. When so
much was being done for the poor, it behoved them
to see that their workmen were not better educated
than their own sons. (Hear, hear.) It had been
said that their workpeople received an education
calculated to unfit them for their position. If that
were so, it was the fault of the mode of education,
and not of the education itself. It was for the land-
lords to provide proper cottage accommodation for
the labourers on their estates. If the landlord did his
duty in this respect, he effected as much good for the
farmer and tenant as if he provided good stabling
for their horses and good pigstyes for their pigs.
Far be it from him to speak of the poor as on a par
with the beasts of the field, but he must say
that in some places he had seen the poor living in
habitations less suited for them than those provided
for the lower animals. In conclusion, the hon. mem-
ber spoke of Post-office savings banks and the Go-
vernment Annuities Bill as offering great advan•
tages to the working population of this country.
The Hon. CECIL HANBITEY LENNOX also re-
sponded to the toast. The 7wies had been pleased
to give to the speeches at the agricultural meetings
the title of " extra• Parliamentary utter-
ances." He (the speaker) looked upon it that
the orators at these meetings, from the Premier
himself downwards, wore in the habit of thrashing
out the straw which had already been well bela-
boured, until the residue was the very dustiest
chaff. (Laughter.) They had already had two ope-
rations of this kind performed by their members
that evening, and it only remained for him to sweep
the floor and see if there were any corn at all left
for him. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the late
session of Parliament, they might be thankful for
three mercies in reference to it—peace, Palmerston,
and prosperity. He would not touch on the affairs
connected with Brazil, with Denmark, with Ash.
antee, or with America, but he would merely, in re-
ference to the national humiliation that had been
submitted to, observe that they had certainly got
out of the mess, but it had been said abroad, with
regard to the manner in which they had escaped,
that the England of to-day was not the Englund of
former days. There could be no doubt that the
spirit which had characterised our negotiations
with foreign countries of late had caused a blush on
many an English countenance, The speaker then
referred to ono or two measures of last session, in-

eluding Mr Bass's bitter crusade against barrel
organs, and said he anticipated his next meeting
with his hearers would be at the hustings.
Other toasts of a local character followed.

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