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CIOUNTRY APARTMENTS.—To he LET, ‘.../ Furnished, THREE BED ROOMS, a Sitting Room, and use of a Kitchen, near a healthy village twelve miles from London. The hoase stands in a very extensive garden and is close to Bushy Park, at an easy dist nce from two stations. Omnibuses p ass within a few minutes' walk to and from London, and the stations several times during the day. To those seeking rural retirement and quiet comfort this ad vertisement offers unusual advantages. Address, M. E., Hampton Wick, Middlesex. CRYSTAL PALACE.- SEASON 1860-1. TICKETS for the NEW SEASON, terminating on the 30th April,lB6l, are now ready for issue. They are of two classes, viz., Two Guineas, admitting free on all occasions; One Guinea, admitting,Tree on all occasions when the iirice of admission to the Palace on the day is under Five Shillings, but admitting on those days on which the price of admission is Five Shillings or upwards on payment of Half-a-Crown. The days on which the price of admission is fixed at Five Shillings and upwards already decided upon are— The MENDLLSSOHN FESTIVAL and GREAT PER FORMANCE of ELIJAH and Torchlight procession, on Friday, May 4. The SIX OPERA CONCERTS, on Fridays, May 11th, June Ist, 15th, 22d, July 6th, and 13th. The GREAT FLOWER SHOW, on Saturday. May 26. The MUSICAL FESTIVAL of the ORPHEONISTES of FRANCE, on Monday, 25th; Tuesday, 26th ; and Thurs day, 2Sth June. Other appointments at a rate of admission of Five Shil lings or upwards may be made as the Season progresses. Season Tickets for Chilthen under twelve years of age will be issued at the uniform rate of Half-a-Guinea. Tickets and the published Programme of the Season may be had at the usual Agents, at Crystal Palace, or at 2, Exeter-hall. By order, GEORGE GROVE, Secretary. CRYSTAL PALACE NEW SEASON.- MENDELSSOHN FESTIVAL, FRIDAY next, May 4. The following is the order of the arrangements for this the Great Opening Fete of the New Season 1860-61 : Doors open at 12 o'clock. Performance of ELIJAH at 3 o'clock, concluding with God Save the Queen. Unveiling of Statue on terrace half an hour after the conclusion of the Oratorio (probably soon after six o'clock), and Serenade by Members of German Gesang-Ve reine. At dusk tprobably between a quarter and half-past eight o'clock) a Great Torchlight Procession, terminating at the foot of the Statue, a full view of which may be obtained from the Palace and upper terrace—Military Music—Display of Fountains. To afford ample time for visitors by carriaffes or by railway leaving the Palace with convenience and facility, the gas standards used for the Christmas Festival will be lighted for an evening promenade in the Centre Transept and Naves, during which favourite selections of music will be performed by the Military Band and on the org tn. Season ticket holders and others are earnestly requested to secure tickets at once, that ample provision may be made. By order. Crystal Palace, May 1, 1860 G. GROVE, Secretary. Prices of Tickets—AdmisQion tickets (if purchased on or before To-morrow, the 3d of May), ss. ; by payment at the doors on the day of the Festival; 7s. 6d. ; reserved stalls, ar ranged in blocks, as at the Handel Festival, in the area, ss. extra ; or in the corner galleries half a guinea extra. Tickets at the Crystal Pelee. and at 2, Exeter Hall, where also plans of the seats may be inspected ; or by order of the usual agents. _ The New Season Tickets will admit on this occasion, sub ject to the usual regulations. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall, Bing William-street, Strand.—Farewell Season in Lon - ion, previous to the retirement of Mr. J. W. Raynor on the 2d of August.—Every Evening at 8, and every Saturday Morning at 30 - clock. Tickets and places may be secured at the Hall from 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's West-end Box office, St. James's Hall, Piocadilly.—Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. J. W. RAYNOR. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Picea -dilly.—Open every Evening', with the'celebrated Band conducted by Mons. Lamotte (chef d'orchestra to the Em perm Napoleon). A magnificent SMOKING SALOON added to this Establishment. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Ad mission, ls. Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, NIGH HOLBORN. This Establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection of its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING for DANCING. The celebrated band, under the direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, plays a nightly-varied selec tion of the ml.t approved classical and modern music. Doors open at half-past 8. Overture at 9. Closing at] 12 punctually. Admission, is. DECAY ED TEETH, R. ESKELL'S celebrated OSTEOPLASTIC ENAMEL.—The only stopping for tender and decayed 'Teeth that will not become discoloured. For front teeth in valuable. Post free for 30 stamps 'directions enclosed). 314, Regent-street, London, facing the Polytechnic. WEDDING STATIONERY, including every requisite.—Beastiful and elegant desi , ns by DE LA RUE and Co. A sample packet and price list sent free. No charge for carriage on orders over 20e. The London Depot for De La Rue and Co.'s manufactures—HENßY GOOD'S, 60,lloorzate-street, E.C. Card plates and crest dies engraved in the first style, and note papers beautifully embossed in coloured relief, or if plain, ;stamped without charge. An illustrated catalogue will be terwarded free on application. REDUCTION OF TEN . POUNDS PER TON In the price of THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE On and after the let of April, 1860. Barrels ctg 448 Feeds, wg nett 1121b5., with measure, 40a each Cases „ 448 Feeds, 1121b5., in Pa ckets, 45s each Carriage paid to any railway station in the kingdom, Nutritives value .. £l5 Condimental value .. 125 Total .. £ 1 .40 per ton. showing a 'profit of £lOO per ton through the use of this in valuable compound, adapted for the seasoning of all kinds of food for animals. _ _ Agents required in every town where none are already appointed. JOSEPH THORLEY, the Inventor and sole Proprietor. Offices, 77, Newgate-street, London. A Pamphlet sent free by post on application. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. 'WHITE'S MOC-MAIN IN LEVER TRUSS Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 229, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, dm They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 3s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly, A BOON TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. GIVEN AWAY.-26,000 Copies of a MEDICAL BOOK, for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers, sent, post free, by the author, secure from observation, on receipt of a directed envelope, enclosing two stamps, the PRIVATE MEDICAL FRIEND, a new work on the Self-cure of Ner vous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death, with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour, The True Guide to those who desire a speedy and private ocure. " Every young man should peruse this excellent little ‘ivork if he values his health, happiness, and peace of mind." —British Critic. By HENRY SMITH, Esq., 8, Burton-crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. NO MORE MEDICINE FOR TTABTTITAL CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), DEBILITY, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, PULMONARY, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. DU BARRY'S DELICIOUS HEALTH RESTORING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD. — Certificate No. 36,418.—1 n our practice we have been enabled to appreciate the virtues of Du Barry's Food. In its effect on chronic dyspepsia (indigestion), nervousness, constipation, diarrhoea, on bilious and liver complamts, cough, asthm :, de bility, and incipient consumption, we find it the safest remedy. —Dr. tire, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. Harvey, Dr. Bright, Dr. Shor - land, Dr. Campbell. Du Barry's Food cures effectually--Acidity, asthma bilious ness, blood to the head, bowel complaints, bronchitis, ca tarrh, colds, congestion, constipation, consumption, ^ramps, cough, debility, despondency, diarrhoea, disten 'don, dizziness, dropsy, drowsiness, dysentery, dyspepsia (Indigestion), erup tions. exhaustion, fevers, epileptic fits, flatulency, gout, ha bitual constipation, headache, heartburn, heemorrhoids, hys eeria, impurities, indigestion (dyspepsia,) irritability, irrita -11100 of kidneys and bladder, liver complaints, loss of memory, .'ow spirits, nausea and sickness, nervousness, nervous fan des, neuralgia, noises in the ear, pains between the shoul ders, palpitation. partial paralysis, phlegm,-pulmonary com plaiots, rheumatism, scrofula, sinking, sleeplessness, bore throat, spasms, tightness across the chest. At about one penny per meal, it effectually cures the above, also children's complaints, and saves fifty times its cost in medicine. It does not turn acid nor interfere with a :iberal diet but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of many thousand cures : Cure No. 51,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder stone Rktory. near Fakenham, Norfolk T. all cases of in- Olgestion, and particularly where the liver is affected, ieoneider it the best of all remedies, -.Tames T. Campbell." Cure No. 71, of Dyspepsia, from the Right Honourable the Lord Stuart de Decies " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta A rabies Food. Stuart de Oecies."—Cure No. 49832 ; " Fifty yea aseindeeeribable agony 'rpm dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, gee:tiler:toy, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, hove been removed by Du Berry's excellent Food. Maria ,Poly, Wortham Lim near Disc, Norfolk."—Cure No. 52,087: Fikid-Marshal Oise Duke of Plitskow, of a gastric inflemma- Ilea of the stovieeh.—Cure No. 51,611; Baron de Polentz, reefed of Langenau.. if many years' horrible sufferings of the nerves and an obstinate constipation. Cure No. 17,121 : Miss Elizabeta Tacobs of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, herbs, a care of extreme nervousness teedigeetion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — Cure No. 48,314: Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Li verpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of inervous irritability, -Cure No. Kele : Dr, Andrew TJre, of f.yametl_pation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability,—Cure No. 31,210: Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility.—Cure No. 36,212 : Cap- Wu Allan, of epileptic fits. —Cure 42,116; Major Edie, of en largement of ftie liver, and total prostration of strength Cure No. 31,418: Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, eesel daily vomitings.—Cure No. 45,41:3 ; Dr. Harvey, of c a er eiesea and debility.-- , Cure No. 39,618: Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption.--Care No. 32,880: William Hunt, Esq., Bar rister. of paralysis.--Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frireley, Surrey, 10 years' diseased lugs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness.—Cure No. 46,814: Mr. Samuel Laxton, Lei center, of two years' diarrhoea. - - Cure. No. 52,612 : The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' ner yous irritability, bile and indigestion, -Cure Nee e 1,812 Miss ye e eenia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medi „ A i - Sijeleers had abandoned all hopes of ressoveree— eltoe Np, PA; " Twenty-five years' nervousness, con indigestion, and debility, from which I have Antlered great TaiiiefY, an 4 which no medicine could re wove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Peeves, 181, Fleet-street, Louden. '—No. 4,208 "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice at many, have been effectually cured by Da Berry's health-restoring Food. I shall ho happy to answer any ioquiriai. Rey. .John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,836: " Three years' excesisive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life veil, miserable, has been radically removed by On Barry's hea till-restoring Food. Alex. gtvert, A.rchdeaeon of Ross, Skibbereen." CUM No. 3,906: Thirteen yeare' conzh, indigestion, and gene ral debility, have been removed oy Uu Barry's excelle Food. In Canisters 2g. Sd., 21h, 4s. 6, 1 _, lb. 225., 24th, 10s. Superretined quality: slb. 224., 10Ib. 10ib., 121 n., and •?.41b. canisters carriag . e free on receipt of Post-office Order, by Earry Du Barry and Coo., 77, Itee:ent-street, London ; Fort num, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, G racechurch. street ; also at 63 and 150 Oxford-street, 330, Strand, 4, Cheap- Ude, London ; and through all grocers and chemists. Send a penny stamp and you Nvil 1 rece i ve , p os t f rei THE INVALID'S OWN GUID ; or, " NATE RESTORER of P.MRI , 'ECT ETEALTIf," without Medicine, by a simple, plea asant, economical, and unfailing means, which saves fifty times its oo,zt in othpr remedies, restoring perfect, digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, refreshing sleep, and 'f's ,n ctional regularity to the most enfeebled, and removing effec' ~tudly in digesrion (dyspepsia), debility, nervousness, uough , asthma, Incipient consumption, dropsy, constipation, flatnir ,ney, diar rhoea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats , catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impur.ities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, Fl eeplesstiess, acidity, palpitation, heartburn headache, d espondency, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, sinking a r*,bronchi tis, also Children's complaints.—,S. ;1%1 Barry.' J7,lRegent etreet Lonclina. N' ) . 9 1 144 , . P ÜBLI CATIONS. 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The Fourth Edition, Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, pri.43e ss. by post free, ss. 6d. oN TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRIECEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers frc m De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrond riasis. - - Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his fre eiuent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed h tinseli to the non-medical reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other squally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct"—London Medical flz,zette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the s ufferers from this distressing malady by translating this lift], e book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqi talified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of whit h they know nothing, with no other object than to fill thei r own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea ai ttl the various forms of disease which resemble ft are accurate] :y de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatmor it of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have dilated so long upon the contents of the p reify minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves spat" 3 for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickf prd ; but the moderate price at which the brochure' is sold, pl aces it within the reach of every one interested in the mattel ." Dublin Medical Press. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. 144 pages, 70 Engravings, post free 2 stamps. 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Jullien, desire to explain that a wido' Qv and others, members of his family, can be protected from I want only by the kind aid of those who appreciate the gre: it ser vices rendered by the late lamented maestro to the ca use of the musical education of the English people. The committee confidently npoeal to that benevolei ice for which their countrymen are so distinguished, fair such prompt and liberal octillions to the subscription list .54 3 shall enable them to do some justice to the memory of M.. 31 ullien, and at the same time afford adequate relief to his b e reaved family. COMMITTEE for the DISTRIBUTION of the JU .LIEN FUND. Mr. John Mitchell Mr. W. Duncan D clvison Mr. W. R. Sams Mr. Jules Benedi, tit Mr. Thomas Chappell Mr. A. Blumeuth al HONORARY TREASURERS. Mr: John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street Mr. T. Chappell, 50, New Bond-street Mr. W. R. Sams, 1, St. James's-street BANKERS. Messrs. 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CURTIS ON MANHOOD - NEW EDITION : X MEDICAL ESSAY ON NERVOUS AND GENERA TIVE DISEASES. Just Published, the 125th thousand, with numerous 'plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, or sent post paid, by the Author, forl2 stamps, Ai ANROOD : the CAUSE and CURE of PRE TA_ MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Direct'Lons for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vie'our. ByJ, L. CURTIS, 15, A:bermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER, on. the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Org,a , As. CH A PTE R IT.—Causes of S upermatorrh cea and Imp otence; Early Vicious Indulgences ; Dan gers of Neglect. —A Review o f the various Disqualifications hful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Clim a t e , or I nfection. ot C xi li a 4 r k r i i ' a rr, F e : ; R w l l l ie l ther resulting from Youthful CHAPTER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical and Moral, being the result of a successful practice extending over a period of 25 years. CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modem Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis :.. . _ The Book conctuc3es with numerous varied arid interesting cases, to which is added the Author's receipt of a preventive Lot ion. REVIEWS OF THE IVORIi. "Curtis on 3ranhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old."--" Sunday Ti mes," 23d March, 1856. "The aa'thor has conferred a great boon. by publishin g this little work, in which is described the aott.oe of those di ceases which produce decline iu youth or more bequently prer aature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. At home for consultation, daily, from 10 till 3 and to to S. Sundays, 10 to 1. „ , /,1 • ••••..1..!...0.• ,144 A-74 -4. l it ---- % l llllp . &. , i _Atga / T 4 tii k 0.111 • 44 4 ~. - .„-.r...4 1 , 1 4 21%68 • 'Y ' 8 *'''"'S..a.....) •,, k\ s,ii' i ''' , ' - ' til ge• '1... - . ''i 0' ' , ‘ „,r( \\. ,4f 1 1 0 -'"o % • - , :-A WV.- ..1, 4 . . . .fii...” 1 , , r 7 ~.. t l ' ,---- _.d, ...., 7. , 5 ..... ...,. ,-..., • ~, v,,. , -,.,,,,..4-- 4.; _- , ,r 4 t tg 2 1 ..„Qt ~ • ~,, , ... .„,, 64. ' , 3 : ,:-:... l ' ;\ Eiv, t , ,__;,,'.. —,, ~-7 , --, '- 7 '? '-..,,, : 'A‘ ' ,l V' ~ '' 14 1% . _,,, , c . '•• ' -4 1: _ ... --. 4011( . / -.----- i' .- ' ..,,,, ~. .„„ , .. • ,'... , -.--- , ...- - :, - .-r: : : ; ,5,-- , _., 'X 'g , , I. _7_, *is. ip*, , „„, ~,. . > \ t , *),„,,,, \ .itt . .2 N--: 7';' , ( ` , (4i 6 it 1.., "-'4' -Dif: *, ' VIS• ~ . ‘ ~. 'l4 : ..''''' ,e . ...... fe;;; p• , .., - ,''' '•::',' ' ' -- ,-, , iiv , e.. , - L ~ ~l .i /ice , {lac C% THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1860. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on Ike woolsack at five o'clock. other day in the other House of Parliament that 40,000 French seamen are regularly employed in the fishing trade off the North American coast, near Newfoundlva], and that the French Government, in order to encourage that trade, pay a bounty amounting to more than the value of the fish that is caught. That is a course perfectly consistent with the principles laid down by Adam Smith in his admirable work. Now, my lords, let me turn to the other side of the account. Everything, as the French say, depends upon the personnel—that is, on the manning; and I am disposed to agree in that remark. What is the force that we require ? —A Channel:fleet equal to that of France, with the means of replacing it in case of disasters. We also require a Medi terranean fleet and a fleet of observation for the protection of cur distant possessions. How ale your ships manned, and what materials do you have for manning such a navy ? And here, my lords, let me remind you that in the event of reverses you are not in the same situation as France would be in on the defeat of her fleet, independently of any land ing on your shores. If France were to obtain the mastery of the Channel and to blockade your ports, what becomes of the country ? what becomes of your revenue ? what be comes of your trade ? what becomes of your means of feed ing your people ? The whole island would be thrown into a state of permanent confusion. These are grave considera tions which should convince you that you ought not to be content with an equal force. Nothing short of what is ne cessary for your absolute security ought to satisfy you on a subject of this kind, so vital to your interests, and even to your existence. MyjoydliNtlkat.'iitianall v iffig ditrfletVtr—l *bin speak upon my own authority ; I will quote to you testimony which cannot be controverted. What was the language of Sir C. Wood, late First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking on this matter in the other house not long ago ? He says : " I have no doubt that if time be allowed, in the course of two years we should have not the slightest difficulty in adding to our navy as many men as might be required, but it is when the emergency arises that the difficulty is felt. What we want is, not that that number of men should be put on board at the end of two years, but in two months, or in two weeks. Russia and France can do that." (Hear, hear.) Here, my lords, is another authority, for this is not 'a recent state of things ; but one that has con tinued for the last 10 or 15 years. Admiral Berkeley, lately First Naval Lord of the Admiralty, says :—" We have a re serve force of 30 sail-of-the-line, ready for commissioning, and fit to proceed to sea in a few days." That is cheering —encouraging in the highest degree. But what does the same gallant admiral add ? " But where are the men to man them without having recourse to impressment?" Every man throughout the country admits the impossibility of our again having recourse to impressment. My lords, when it was proposed to send an expedition to the coast of Syria, the Mediterranean float was upon a peace establishment. And not only so, but it was far shortof its complement of men in consequence of sickness and other casualties. And it be came necessary therefore repeatedly to apply to this country to send out an additional supply of seamen. Hear what the gallant admiral to whom I have referred says on that sub ject : " The first reinforcement of the seamen, or rather persons so called, did not arrive till the month of January (six months after the warning was given !) and it amounted to GOO men only. Thus we were left for a period of six months expecting continually, with ships, the complements of which were reduced below their peace establishments, to come into collision with the French fleet, the ships com posing which were fully manned and no means spared to render them in every respect efficient. Add to which it since appears that the French were fully aware of our weak ness, and were only waiting for orders from their Govern ment to enable them to take advantage of it." Such was the state of things at the period to which I have alluded. It has existed, as your lordships will perceive, for a very considerable length of time, and no adequate means have been taken to remedy the evil. But, my lords, I can bring the case down almost to the present day—to the time when our fleet was sent to the Baltic to attack the fleet of Russia. See what was the state of our navy at that time. Ad miral Berkeley wrote to the commander of that fleet in the Baltic to this effect :—" Have any of your ships tried for men in a Norwegian port ? It is said you might have any number of good seamen from that country." We were so reduced that when we sent out only one single fleet we were so incapable of manning it that the commander of that fleet, not having a sufficient number of English seamen, was desired to search on the different coasts of the country in the neighbourhood of which he lay to see if he could not supply his deficiency by foreign seamen. Is it possible to present a more unfavourable picture of the position in which we stand Again, my lords, Admiral Berkeley, in writing to that commander that he was about to send out two vessels, the James Watt and the Prince Regent, states that they would soon join him, but he afterwards adds that "men are wanting, and it is impossible to say how long it will be before they are completed." On the subject of the navy he writes thus : " Notwithstanding the number of landsmen entered, we are come nearly to a dead standstill as to seamen, and after the James Watt and Prince Regent reach you I do not know when we shall be able to send you a further reinforcement for want of men I Something must be done, and done speedily, or there will be a break down in our present ricketty system." My lords, I have brought these observations down almost to the present day, and I am afraid at this moment we are not in a better state than that which is described by the authorities to which I have referred. What, then, is to be done ? There is one point arising out of the new system of naval warfare to which I wish to call your attention. A blow can be struck in a moment. It does not take time to prepare it. In the course of the evidence given before the commission to which I have referred it is stated—and many naval men concur in the correctness of the opinion—that the striking of the first blow in the event of a naval war will be almost decisive of the result. My lords, it is our duty not to deceive ourselves—it is our duty to take care that the country is not deceived; it is our duty to meet the difficulty in a manner corresponding with the emergency. When, then, is to be done ? The Government appointed a commission of inquiry as to what course should be adopted for the manning of the navy. At the head of that commis sion was my noble and gallant friend who sits before me (Earl of Hardwicke). No selection could have been more proper, from the gallantry, naval skill, as well as from the civil experience of the noble lord. That Commission met in July, 1858, and made its report in the February follow ing—that is, about a year ago. What did they recom mend ? An addition of 4,000 sailors to the home reserve. I believe I may state, although I shall be happy to be con tradicted on that point, that not one of these men has yet been raised. I am glad to read the smile on the counte • naneo of the noble duke (of Somerset), which leads me to suppose he means to correct my statement to this extent, that out of 4,000 perhaps 1,000 men may have been raised. We shall, however, have a correct statement by-and-by from that noble person. They further recommended 5,000 marines to be added to the present force,—l believe not a single marine has yet been raised after the lapse of a year. They also recommended 2,000 to be added to the coast guard. Now, my lords, I call your attention to this point, for great confusion has been allowed to prevail upon the subject of the coastguard. There are two descriptions of force comprised under the designation of the coastguard. There is a revenue coastguard, and a coastguard in 11 ships scattered along our coast. Of the 11 ships I give the noble duke joy. They never go to sea. The ships are occasion ally driven by steam from ono port to another, as conve nience may dictate, but there is no mode of effectually training to seamenship the men who form that part of the reserve. The other department is divided into two bodies —the fleet-men, and the shore-men. It is most material to attend to this distinction. The fleet-men amount to 3,200, and they are most admirable seamen. You cannot find a better portion of seamen in any quarter of the globe. But there are 1,400 shore-men who are of no use whatever to the navy, so that when you talk of an increase of 6,000 coastguardmen—for that is stated, I understand, as the amount of this reserve—while that force embraces 3,200 admirable seamen the balance consists of these coastguard volunteers whom I have before described. I have it on the authority of many men connected with the service, and Admiral Martin, in his pamphlet, states it in most distinct terms, that the only real coastguard consists of 3,200 men. Well, my lords, this is a lamentable catalogue. But let me go on to the main point. The main point for your con sideration, and to which I am about to call your attention, is the great naval reserve—the Royal Naval Volunteers. It was stated by the commission that it was absolutely necessary immediately to raise that body of men for the purpose of supplying all the defects that might arise in our navy, and for the purpose of being prepared to meet any contingency, lam very anxious, my lords, being myself a civilian, in calling your attention to this subject, to sup port myself by eminent authorities. The report says this : "The force we require must be composed of trained sea men, and, as the necessity for such a reserve is urgent, it must in the first instance be recruited from adults." That is ti'e language of the commission. What is the language of Admiral Berkeley on this subject? "No person can consider the ease with which a powerful squadron might bo manned and rendered available for hos tile purposes,—the great increase in the number and power of their steamvessels, together with the menacing aspect at times of our foreign relations,—without coming to the con clusion that the present state of our naval affairs demands the most serious and prompt consideration of her Majesty's r n o e f i t h paramount d n e e l c a e y s s t o y r , Government, and that my tisa mind,matte — ad a ut n it e s c o e f ss e i o t m y p w r h on ic i h ise, to adopt such measures as shall, in the event of a sudden outbreak of hostilities, place a reserve force at the disposal of this depart men t su fficient to man effectually, and at a few days' notice, at least 12 or 14 sail of the line." Such, my lords, is the language embodied in the report of the commissioners. This report was made in the month of February last year. The subject was of an urgent nature, one which demanded in dealing with it the most prompt and incessant activity. What then has been done ? The fact, I believe, is, my lords, that no attempt was made to raise a single man until the Ist January last, in accordance with recommendations of the commission. And what, let me ask, is the number which is now stated by Lord C. Paget to have been obtained 4or this most important reserve of 30,000 which ought to have been immediately raised ? Why, 800 men constitutes the whole of the force, whose services have been secured in the space of three months; so that at that rate it would take about 10 years to raise the whole 30,000—(hear, hear)—and, in the meantime, one third of the number raised would, owing to sickness or some other cause, be found to be missing. Under these circumstances I think I may safely say that the Ad miralty have not succeeded in carrying out the scheme which was recommended by the commission as one which it was absolutely necessary to carry into effect for the security of the country, and which is also viewed in that light by every naval man who has directed his attention to the subject. (blear.) The fact is, my lords, the scheme is an absolute failure, and is so regarded, I be lieve, by the members of the naval profession almost without exception. (Hear.) To what causes, then, let me ask, is this failure to be attributed ? As to the circumstances to which it is owing, there may be some doubt, although of the fact itself there can be none entertained. There is, how ever, one circumstance which it appears to me may have in some degree cenduced to this result. Sailors are, as a general rule, very simple-minded men, and do not like enter ing into complicated terms of engagement. Now, I hold in my hand the regulations by which the seamen who enrol themselves in this service are asked to abide. They consist of 159 clauses. (A . laugh.) Now, ,mylords, there is not en, attorzieyiiiihe ITniFetntfiterdff - who could mike himself master of these 159 clauses in one fortnight. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) How then can it be expected that a common sailor who is, generally speaking, wonderfully jealous of the Board of Admiralty by which he has been so often imposed upon—(laughter)—will enter blindfolded into engagements, the nature of which he cannot comprehend ? Why, my lords, I, who was a member of the legal profession, and who for merly knew something of the practice of the courts, should be obliged if, in the 'vigour of my life, I was reduced to such a position as to render it necessary for me to join the naval reserve, to call to my assistance, Mr. B. Kerr or Mr. Coul son, or some other eminent conveyancer, in order to make myself acquainted with the various provisions of this ab surd document. (Renewed laughter.) In these regula tions there is to be found, in my opinion, one obvious cause of the failure of the scheme to which I am referring. (Hear, hear.) I am, in saying so, giving expression to the views of many persons competent to form a judgment on the subject, for I should be somewhat shy of committing myself to any opinion of my own with regard to it. A sum of S 5 or £6 is given to those seamen who enter the Naval Reserve, and you suppose then that you have bought their services. You, however, will not find men to join the force for that amount. If the number of 30,000 sailors were, in accordance with the report of the commission, raised, you would at the pre sent rate of payment expend on that body only £lBO,OOO a year, while the total amount of your Naval Estimates reaches the sum of £12,000,000 sterling. (Hear, hear.) But you ought to bear in mind that all your machinery is of no use, and might as well be thrown to the bottom of the sea, unless you have a number of seamen sufficient to man your fleet. In framing these regulations, then, the Admi ralty acts, in my opinion, somewhat after the fashion of a workman who, in making a clock, constructs the machinery admirably, using the very best materials for the purpose, but who, when he comes to make the mainspring, through some false notion of economy, uses imperfect materials, and renders the whole work, as a consequence, comparatively valueless. (Hear, hoar.) I may, however, be asked what course I should propose to be taken with the view of remedying the existing state of things. My answer to such a question as that is, " I have pointed out a great evil de manding immediate removal. It is not for me but for her Majesty's Government to provide the remedy." I may, how ever, say that I had a letter sent to me by a gallant admiral— A dmiral Bowles—suggesting a conscription of some sort with the view of forming a maritime militia. I mention this fact for the consideration of the Government. The conclusion on the subject to which I have been addressing myself at which I have arrived is, I may add, that in point of mate rial—that is to say, in ships—you are far below the require ments of the country, while so far as the manning of the fleet is concerned you are in a situation the most deplorable. (Hear.) Ido Rot mince the matter. Our position in this respect ought to be known throughout the country. No man ought to be ignorant of the real facts of the case. Ido not seek to aseribe the existence of those shortcomings to which I have alluded to inefficiency on the part of the Board of Admiralty, though I cannot say that I look upon — that Board as a well-constituted body. A civilian who probably never know anything of naval affairs, who never, perhaps, even owned a yacht—(a laugh)—is placed at its head. (Hear.) There are also four naval lords, to each of whom different departments of the service are intrusted, the proper administration of the details of which is quite sufficient to occupy the entire of his time, so that there is an absence of that superintending control which is requisite to direct the machinery. This leads to a state of things not quite so bad, indeed, 'as that which prevailed in former times, when a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway and burned our ships at Chatham, and when not a single Lord of the Admiralty was at his post, the only one connected with it who was to be found on' the occasion being the Secretary, who ran to and fro shaking his hands, and sending his sil ver in one direction and his gold-bags in another, to place them beyond the reach of spoliation in case of the landing of the Dutch. (A laugh.) There has been, I admit, a change in the conduct of affairs at the Admiralty since that period, but not such a change as the requirements of the country imperatively demand. (Hear, hear.) I ask your lordships if I trespass upon your time in dealing with this important subject to a greater extent than is convenient? (Cheers.) I assure you the inconvenience is 10,000 times greater, in all probability, to me in my own person than is that which you may experience. (Hear.) I shall then, with your permission, again briefly refer to the evidence of Admiral Berkeley, who states that from the moment he went to the Board of Admi ralty he strenuously advocated the necessity of an available reserve to a large extent. I may here, perhaps, remind the house of that to which it is perhaps not requisite to allude— that the construction of the Board of Admiralty is not only such as I havo pointed out, but that its members do not con tinue to be the same for:more than a few years, inasmuch as, owing, to the frequent changes of Government, one set Of officials, as a matter of course, are obliged to give place to another equally uninformed as to the details of the service and equally inexperienced as their predecessors. (Hear, hear.) Admiral Berkeley adds : " The constant change of Boards—above all, the frequent change of the individual at the head of the Board—renders it almost a hopeless task; it requires perseverance in one system in detail, as well as a whole. No scheme can pros per that is so constantly altered, and, above all, any schema on the subject of manning the navy, as well as establishing a reserve, must be steadily persevered in, and the one end kept constantly in view." These are the opinions of the gallant admiral to whom I have referred. There is another opinion with which I will take the liberty of troubling your lordships ; it is that of a former friend of mine, a most gallant officer, of high charac ter, loved by all who knew him, and standing high in pub lic estimation. It is the opinion of Sir George Cockburn. He says : " Having filled the station of confidential or principal Sea Lord of the Admiralty for more than 17 years, I feel that my opinion regarding the constitution of the Board may sooner or later be deemed worthy of consideration and at tention ; I therefore am induced to place in writing the de cisions to which my experience has brought me on this point. I have, then, no hesitation in stating that I con sider the present establishment of that Board to be the most unsatisfactory and least efficient for its purpose that could have been devised." He then recommends " that the Admiralty Board should be abolished, and a totally new governing body established." My lords, I have one more observation to make. I find that at this moment, and with this state of things existing, there is a party actively employed in the north of England in liberalising and improving, according to their sense of the term, the fiscal system of the country, with the de clared object—not unsupported, I am afraid, by pretty high authority—of putting an end to all taxes on articles of con sumption, and placing the taxation almost entirely on rea lised property, and on realised property according to a gra duated scale. This is done with the avowed object of intro ducing here the social equality, or, according to the expres sion used by a high authority, that species of social equality that exists in France, and which is cherished in that country, regardless of civil liberty. (Cheers.) Another object they have in view is to pull down the wealthier or aristocratic classes, who, they say, are the favourites and patrons of the army and navy, and to reduce those national establishments to a lower status. So that, while the navy of France in creases from year to year, while its continuance in its pre sent strength is provided for till 1871, the navy of England is to be reduced—and for what purpose and under what pretext? In the expectation that the nation will continue to possess the friendship of the Emperor of the French ; in the expectation that, by the further exchange of cotton and pottery for wine and silks, a warm friendship may be esta blished between this country and France. These are the views entertained by a set of men who are aspiring to the government of this country—(cheers)—and who, if they could, would place themselves at the head of the whole power of England. (Cheers.) They would reduce us to the humiliation I have referred to, instead of maintaining our establishments as they now exist, and holding high the honour and reputation of the country. And under these circumstances I see that a noble lord in the other house-- with an indefatigable spirit that dacs not find sufficient employment in disentangling the complicated phrases of M. Thouvenel and opposing the logic of his facts—as it were in a spirit of mischief, and living only in troubled waters, has at this time though it right to bring forward a measure that opposes one class, of the community against another. lie has done this at a time when, in the opinion of all who have reflected on the circumstances, every class ought to unite in support of the honour and independence of the nation. (Loud cheers.) The noble and learned lord concluded by putting the question of which he had given notice, as to the state of the Naval Reserve, its present con dition, and probable future progress. The Duke of SOMERSET—I am not sorry the noble and learned lord has brought this important subject under the notice of the house. Undoubtedly, the condition of the navy is far more important to the country than the existence of any Board of Admiralty or any Government ; but I must say when I heard the speech of the noble and learned lord he was about to come to the conclusion that I had unneces sarily reduced the Navy Estimates and cut down the expen diture, because in a great part of his speech he assumed that the Admiralty had reduced our naval establishments, and the number of our ships and men. I do net consider this in any way a party question, and I may say, shortly, that the desire of the present Board of Admiralty, as of others, is, and has been, to maintain the navy in the most efficient condition. (Hear.) On my accession to office in the present Board of Admiralty I toek a survey of the state of the dockyards ; • and I thought, looking at the programme of work to be done left by the late Government, that the money to be voted was not quite sufficient for the result to be accomplished. I therefore added £lOO,OOO to the esti mate on account of ships to be built. I did so in an earnest desire to complete within the year the programme laid down by the late Board of Admiralty. And I can say that during the last eight months more men have been employed in our dockyards than at any previous Iteriod of the history . of thneowntry7 --1-tlo-not - exerirdirtheihntr of the whole great war, down to 1815 ; and I exclude the factories alto gether, which form another great division of our naval establishments. I speak only of the shipbuilding depart ment ; and in that department I can show there has been no relaxation. Undoubtedly, in the present year this exer tion has been somewhat diminished ; there was much incon venience in continuing to carry on work at that rate. Therefore, as far as the works undertaken by the late Go vernment are concerned, they are still going on, but at the same time I thought it convenient and advantageous that these works should be differently arranged. We are now, I may say, forward in ships of the line, and the noble lord is right in saying that what we require, therefore, is to bring on our small vessels. Not that I propose altogether to put a stop to the operations on ships of the line, but it has been agreed that they shall be left on the frames in such a way that they may season and improve, at the same time that they can be finished off rapidly if an emergency should arise, and by this means all the energies of the dockyards can be applied to the smaller vessels. The noble and learned lord referred to the ships we have now afloat. I find that we have built, and that there are afloat, 50 ships of the line. Lord LYNDIIURST—Do you include block ships ? The Duke of SOMERSET—I am not taking the block ships into account. Lord LYN DTI UR ST—Or sailing ships ? The Duke of SOMERSET —I do not count them. Lord LYNDHURST—Are those vessels all completed ? The Duke of SOMERSET—They are all afloat. I do not mean that they are all in the first class of steamvessels, and nothing could be more unwise than to complete their equipment, because the moment you put in the machinery and set up the masts and rigging you stop the ventilation, and the wear and tear begins from that moment, and the expense mounts up at an enormous rate. We have conse quently, as I have said, .50 ships of the line afloat, 37 frigates, 17 corvettes, 88 sloops, many of which are very powerful vessels, 26 smaller vessels, 24 gunvessels of a cer tain class, and between 150 and 160 gunboats. That is our steam force at present afloat. Lard LYNDHURST—Have you an account of the French navy ? The Duke of SOMERSET—I have an approximate me count, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the figures. They have 33 ships of the line afloat, and they are building six or eight—in all about 40 ; of frigates, they have 38 afloat and 12 building, making 50 in all ; they surpass us in fri gates—(hoar, hear)—of corvettes, sloops, and all the other classes of vessels they hays 103, which would not at all equal the number of our smaller vessels. The noble and learned lord referred to a former period, and to the evidence of Admiral Berkeley as to our having 30 sail of the line for the defence of the country. We have now 21 or 22 sail of the line at sea more fully manned than at any previous time, as we made an addition some months since to their complement. (Hear, hear.) As regards either the force afloat or the manning of the fleet, I therefore do not believe that the objections can be sustained. Ido not think the deficiency experienced during the Syrian war is likely to occur again; and, with regard to the Russian war, it is well known wo were called on suddenly to send fleets both to the Baltic and the Black Sea, and that the Admiralty had great difficulty in manning the fleet. But lam con vinced that, not merely as regards the vessels and machi nery, but the general arrangements for equipping and send ing vessels speedily to sea, at no time were the preparations in so forward a state as at present. (Hear, hear.) I now come to the subject of the highest importance—the men. The noble lord says the ships are not half manned ; but it so happens that it is just the contrary difficulty under which we have laboured. On coming into office I found certain estimates prepared and a £lO bounty in existence. I adopted these, and before the end of August I found that the number of men voted by Parliament was exceeded by 1,000. The news of the Chinese disaster arrived in Sept., and I did not think it was prudent under these circumstances to put a stop to the enrolment of seamen ; the result is, that for the last six months we have been 5,000 in excess of the vote. This year we covered that large number by a larger vote, but they wore still coming in so rapidly that I was obliged to come to the determination only to take able seamen, or ordinary seamen who had already served on board the fleet and been drilled to the guns. Then I come to the question of the reserve. I have taken in the estimates some 10,000 or 11,000 more than last year—and, besides covering the excess required for the navy, I have a body of seamen in port ready to put on board ship as soon as they arc commissioned. (Hear, hear.) With reference to the Coastguard-- Lord LYNDHURST—Which Coastguard ? The Duke of SOMERSET—Not the Naval Coast Volun teers, but the Coastguard. Of these there are, first of all, ) 3,183 who serve on shore, and the officers attached to this force are 259. The crews of the district ships number 2,594; and, in addition, there are the crews of the coasting cruisers, consisting of 827 men. Not including the civilians, to whom the noble and learned lord has also referred, there are thus of Coastguardmen ready to be put on board ship 6,862 men. The noble lord seems to attach little importance to the Coastguard ships, but he forgets that attached to these vessels there are 14 gunboats, which are constantly exer cised round the coast. The crews for the most part are men who have served in the fleet, and are a most efficient and excellent body. More than 900 of them are petty officers, which showed the class of men who entered the force. It is said that the numbers of the force ought to be raised con siderably, but to do that at once would be very injudicious. At present it is a great attraction to seamen—men who have served their 10 years aro very glad to get into it—and if we were all at once to fill up its ranks with any other body of men we should be discouraging those men whojoin the navy, looking forward at the end of their term to get , into the Coastguard. (Hear, hear.) The noble and learned lord did not speak as if he had a very high opinion of the Naval Coast Volunteers ; but the general tone of the re ports which I have received from the various districts is that they are a highly useful body, good at their guns, apt at their drill, and likely to be very valuable additions to the crew of any ships into which they may be draughted. (Hear, hear.) There are 7,000 of them ; they are in tended for the defence of the coast, and for that purpose I believe them to be most eflicient. (Hear, hear.) It is urged that we ought to increase the number to 10,000, but in looking at this question you must consider the position of the mercantile marine as well as the Royal Navy. From the returns which I have called for from the various ports in the kingdom, I learn that wages in the mercantile marine were never higher than now—" Seamen scarce, wages high," is the general tone of these returns, and the pros perity of the mercantile service cannot fail to create some kind cf competition, and to interfere to some extent with an increase of this force. The noble and learned lord laughed at the regulations which we have drawn up for the Royal Naval Reserve, saying it was impossible that any seaman could ever read them through, but he does not re member that a great many of those regulations are intended for the shipping-masters and the officers who enrol the men. I believe all the regulations which seamen are re quired to know can be printed on a single sheet. (Hear, hear.) All we want in regard to this force is a little time. We did not begin to pay the men until April, and we all know that seamen are not very likely to come forward.until the pay begins. We have only been a month in operation, and I believe the men are entering very fairly ; somewhere about 1,000 have joined, and they are all of them fine men, excellent sailors. In raising this force the Board of Admi ralty was unanimous in thinking it desirable that we should only admit at first what are called "able seamen," faa not go for ordinary men ; because we wanted to get a ouss of men who would all of them be useful as the ttcle4s of a ship's company, and to keep out that class who would join only for the sake of the money, and when the emergency arose would not be forthcoming. (Hear, hear.) A letter has been forwarded to me, written by the seamen of Hartlepool to the seamen of Aberdeen, which shows very satisfactorily what is the feeling of the men on the subject. The seamen of Aberdeen, it apnenra, did not like the scheme, thinking there we,s some trap in it, and they wrote to the seamen of gavtlepool to ask their advice. The reply was :—" Upwards of 100 men have joined the force here, all like it, and the general opinion is that before long ail the eligible men in Hartlepool will be included in it." The scheme is popular with the men of Hartlepool, and they have every confidence in the Government not _ . sending them on a foreign station—any man who is afraid of being called in a time of emergency is not fit to be a reserve man. (Hear, hear.) That is their feelinz—and PRIVATE BUSINESS. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., _ . MARY BERTRAND. By FRANCIS MEREDITH. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers. successors to Henry Col burn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The North Wales Railway, the Sirhowy Tramroad, and the Tewkesbury, Upton-upon-Severn, and Malvern Junc tion Railway Bills were read a second time. The Glossop and Marple Bridge Road, and the North Staffordshire Railway Bills were read a third time and passed. THE NAVAL RESERVES. Lord LYNDHURST rose to call the attention of the house to the state of the Naval Reserve, and to ask the Government for an account of its present condition and pro bable future progress. He said—My lords, lam anxious to call your attention to a subject that appears to me to be one of great importance —the actual state of our navy, more partie.ularly that branch of it which is distinguished by the title of the Royal Naval Reserve. If any noble lord more acquainted with the details of the naval profession than I can pretend to be had undertaken this task, I certainly should have remained silent ; but, fading there was no pro bability of any member of this house undertaking to bring this subject before your lordships, I have felt it my duty, at no little inconvenience to myself, to present it to your no tice. (Hear, hear.) I shall endeavour, in what I have to state, to confine myself e k eempht.narrative ot - ttre fette r ; for the purpose of placing before you as clearly as I can the actual state and future prospects of the navy, and for the purpose of conveying information which I think ought to be possessed by every man in this empire. It must not be supposed that I am about to state anything that can be at all prejudicial to the public service. Almost everything that I am about to state may be collected from public docu ments ; and I believe I may say generally that foreign Go vernments, rivals to this country, are more minutely ac quainted with the condition of our army and navy than the great mass of our own people who are not within the official circle. Upon the strength of our navy the character, the influence, and, I think I may say, the existence of this country depend. When I say the strength of our navy, I mean thereby the comparative state of the English navy as contrasted with that of foreign Powers, for that is the essen tial consideration. I was informed the other day that a very able man, an engineer, and a member of the Fortifica tion Commission, being asked, " What defence do you con sider the beat for oxr country ?" answered shortly and emphatically, " A powerful navy—a powerful fleet." My lords, I am old enough to remember the whole history of the revolutionary war, and of the war which succeeded it with the Empire of France. Step by step, and victory after victory, notwithstanding all its efforts—and every one must recall the gallantry displayed by the French navy— that navy was by the great victory of the Nile, the victory of Lord Duncan, that of Lord St. Vincent, and the great and splendid victory of Trafalgar, reduced at the termination of the war to such a state that for 20 years after that period we remained, so far as our navy was concerned, in a state of perfect tranquillity. That state of things was always galling to the French, and they have at different times ex pressed themselves in terms of great feeling upon the subject. When Admiral Lalande lay with his fleet in the Bay of Sa i'amis, expecting orders to follow our squadron to the coast oi." Syria, being continually disappointed and receiving no such orders, he, in a moment of irritation at the manner in whiel he was treated, expressed himself in the strongest terms' upon the subject. I mention this as a specimen of the feeling entertained by the members of the French navy with regard to the state to which they were reduced by the triumphant victories of the British. After expressing his indignation at the conduct of the French Government in not giving him the orders which he anticipated the admiral said, among other things, " England inflicted upon us a series of cruel defeats and humiliations, which caused and ever will cause every French sailor's heart to beat in pre sence of the English." Such, my lords, ,was the result of the efforts made during the great French war. Very little change took place until after the memorable event to which I again recall your attention, I mean the accession to su preme power of the present Emperor of France. In the year 1848 he was elected President of the Republic, and in the following year that celebrated commission was appointed for the purpose of considering the reorganisation of the navy of France. That commission was composed of 15 or more of the most able men selected from the navy and from the civil service of France, and they have framed a most complete code of regulations for the purpose of stimulating and directing the efforts of the French navy. I have stated one remarkable date with respect to the issuing of that commission. There is another date equally remark able. No report was called for from that commission until after the celebrated event of the 2d of December. About 12 or 14 days after that coup d'etat—viz., on the 15th of December, a report was called for by Louis Napoleon, and from that time the most active exertions have been made to carry all the recommendations of that commission into effect. I mention these facts in order that your lordships may see how far you can reconcile the dates and facts which I have stated with a certain conversation which is sup posed to have taken place between a Frenchman and an Englishman, and which was published to the world some time back. My lords, needs I say that the commission was in terms directed against this country ? If you look to the evidence of the persons who were examined before that commission, and to the remarks of the members, you will see that England was at that period almost the sole object which Louis Napoleon had in view. Mr. Collies, who was the secretary to the commission, says : " The first thing to establish is the number of ships France ought to and could put to sea the day war is de clared ; for this the basis is certain, the enemy is known ; there can be no question but of England." That gentleman does not stand alone in the evidence which he gave before the commission. Some of your lordships, perhaps, may have read the opinions appended to the report. The President of the Commission, M. Darn, discussed the manner in which a French fleet, with a proper military force on board, might make a successful attack upon the shores of this country. Admiral Dupotit Thours, a well known name, goes in much greater detail over the same ground, stating how easily a landing might be effected, and showing to demonstration the view with which that com mission was appointed and the object to which its result was directed. My lords, the result of that commission and of the admirable system which was formed under it has turned out to be a formidable navy, a formidable navy of steam vessels, to which alone I confine my observa tions. What were the Government of this country and the Admiralty doing in the meantime ? For a considerable period they were absolutely supine. No notice was taken of what was being done on the other side of the Channel, util at length, alarmed at the progress which had beenmade, they began to exert themselves, and by a most extraordinary effort and expenditure of money they have at length suc ceeded in forming a fleet, I believe at this moment about equal, but not more than equal to that of France. As I un derstand the matter—and I have it from the reports upon the table—at the beginning of last year our fleet consisted of 29 sail of the line, and the French fleet of precisely the same number. Although we were at that time equal in ships o f the line, the French were far superior to us in what they con eider of infinite importance—the number of frigates. While we had only 26 frigates, they had 34. What addition has been ne , 'tele to our fleet since the commencement of last year lam not' . informed. We shall perhaps hear of it from ,the noble duke, but I do not imagine that at this moment see " fleet exceeds— -or if it does, only in a small degree—the stea,'u naval force of France. And now, my lords, allow me to m a , \ e an observatioe I founded upon this supposed equality. If your steam navy is nominally only equal to that of France, i.t is in reality m etch inferior to it. I speak the opinion of every naval man with whom I have communi cated ; I speak the opinions of the members of the French commission. They all say,. "the English have so many points to d efeeed, that with aet equal navy they can never bring the force. to compete with us that we can bring against them." And I have heard it stated by mere than one naval authority that he order to place ourseives on a footing with the navy of Franteke we ought to have nearly double the num ber of ships which th,ey can bring into action. But it is some times said that our emenen are so much better that they give us the superiority. My lords, let us not delude oureelves in that manner. The than ge in the mode of navigation has very greatly altered the vhole system. And, although I agree with Sir H. Douglas ti 'eat seamanship is of considerable importance, still it is very el, Verent at this moment from what it was at former periods. I have stated the comparative force, and also the amount of thkl, material, of the French and English navies. Let me call pe t er attention for a few mo ments to what is still more import e net, their personnel. By the inscription maritime, which - , is ;lea of the French sys tem, every seaman. in the mere leant service, of whatever :rank, common seaman, master, lend ma,:e, must be entered upon the register and pass through the navy ; and an au thority, whose name I dare say is familiar to the noble duke opposite, M. de Fleurian, states that at the time he wrote there was not a sailor in the French marine thai had not passed through the navy. , Independently of this inscription, there is another measure o f great importance adopted, called the levee pe'cmanente, einde r which a very large class of men have to pass seven years' in the navy. What is the result of this state of things ? that the moment a French ship is built they have a tra inked crew ready to put on board ; whereas we have to wait mon the after a ship is in commission before we can send her to sea. Again, if any great or sudden emergency calls for the o fittinee out of a fleet. France has trained seamen ready to et ebark upon any enterprise. And how are her seamen tr: sine 1 ? They are regularly educated in seamanship, in gunnery., in everything that is necessary for the purposes of WI irfare. The French regulations require that 10 ships shall al ways tot m a squadron of evolution, and shall, at all COD veiftent and proper times, go to sea with a view to exercise the ,seaurp 4 , . It was, I learn, stated the PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, 5 NEWSPAPER ~~ ~! (i. (......\,:„......_.,,,,.. ,:,,,,,-,„7.,„„„.,,,,„ creditable it i s t o t h em. (H ear, hear.) They ~. x.. 7 ., ~ 9_, -1- are doing iill - in the merchant service, and we clort i Ncani A S to be sent out to any of your little wars to China or the ' River Plate, or any of those places where you are always _. carrying on some small hostilities; but when it comes to a . . regular European war we'll take our share in it with any man." (Hear, hear.) Taking all those things together we have a total reserve of about 1 , 1,850 men, and, considering they are all good men, that is not a force to be despised. The noble and learned lord says we ought to have enrolled a larger number of reserve men ; and I have no doubt that, if we had gone about offering bounties to any sort of men, we should have made a much larger show on paper than we • do at present. But that would have been a very injudicious course in the long run. The right course was to begin well, - and to look to efficiency as well as to numbers. (Hear, hear.) I am told that, if we had taken the worst class of men, the best class of men would never have joined. The course we have taken has two advantages—it does not involve so large an expenditure as if we had taken men of all classes; and it give us the nucleus of a valuable force hereafter. The noble and learned lord talked with o total disregard of econo mical considerations ; and, if we are to establish a force which is to last, we must pay some attention to economy. If we were to establish it on an extravagant and wasteful system Parliament would very soon be for putting it down again. What the country wants is a force that shall grow and be efficient, and the cost of which will not be exces sive. I believe by the measures we have taken we shall attain that result. The noble and learned lord said we could not expect nien to join for £6 a year. I have heard that before. Suppose you give a man £lO or £l5 a year. He will never join your navy, because he will be much better in the Naval Reserve with £l5 a year, and picking up odd money in any way he can. You ought to give a man just enough to be a tie upon him, but still compelling him t continue his service in the mercantile marine, qualifying himself for service in the navy. It has been said that we should give as much as £2O a year. If we did so the - men _would live ashore, and in 0 few years they wouldsba_ss set, Of drunken fellows, unfit to serve their country at sea. The commission recommended £5. We raised the sum to £6, but I had great doubts about it, and it was only after con sultation with experienced and competent persons that I thought on the whole £6 would be a better sum. (Hear.) There is another body to which the noble and learned lord has not referred, but which I consider far the most impor tant part of the force—l mean the boys. What we want is to bring in boys to serve in the navy. A boy who has been a couple of years at sea is a better person for your ser vice than almost any man you can obtain from the mercan tile marine. In 1855, which was a year of war, we entered 4,000 first and second class boys ; in 1856 we entered 3,000; in 1857, 1,800; in 1858, 1,690 ; and in 1859, 5,147. (Hear.) There are 8,200 first and second class boys now serving in our ships. It must always be borne in mind that in train • ing boys for our ships the proportion of boys must have some reference to the proportion of men, and that therefore we must take in only such a number of boys as can be ab sorbed in the fleet. But we have not yet reached that point, and in the estimates for the present year, besides the 11,000 excess that I have of men over the estimates of last year, there is an addition of 2,000 boys. We are, therefore, train ing more boys for the navy. I think that is a very wise course. Captains just returned from soa have told me that the boys are the best sailors in the navy, and that we can not have too many of them. Accordingly, I have had some vessels prepared, and am having more prepared, for the purpose of training boys. (Hear.) The noble and learned lord has referred to a kind of compulsory service. I believe that if anything could make your navy unpopular, and cripple your efficient force afloat, it would be the attempt to establish a compulsory service. (Hear.) The noble and learned lord adverted to another point, which he seemed to think the root of all the evils he pointed out. Ido not think, however, it is such a great misfortune that the First Lord should not be a professional seaman. I nay refer the noble and learned lord to a speech suede by the late Sir Robert Peel in which he showed the House of Commons what bola our naval First Lords when we had them. lie described how Lord Howe had been hunted lawn, how Koppel had been treated, what had become of St. Vincent. Lord Howe was absolutely hunted out'of his place, and I do not think Lord St. Vincent was: a very successful First Lord. We cannot, in fact, make a remarkably good show of our naval First Lords. After all, however, the question is not between civilians and seamen. In a Parliamentary Government the Board of Admiralty must be properly represented in Parliament. If you have got a good naval officer in Parliament I see no reason why he should not bo made First Lord, but I do not think it is absolutely necessary that the First Lord should be a profes sional sailor. Anybody who knows what the details of the Admiralty are, how many questions there are which have nothing to do with service afloat, must admit that for the administration of the navy it is not essential that a man should have a naval education. (Hear, bear.) I agre e with the noble and learned lord that it is a misfortune there should be such constant changes in the Board, but that evil is not now so great as it was formerly, When - I name into - - office I found a gallant admiral there who had been one o the Board in the time of the noble earl opposite, and I think it is always desirable to retain the servicesof some members of the Board. But there is also an advantage iba some change. What is now done at the Horse Guards, 1 vith re spect to a compulsory retirement at the end of five ;years, is done in an indirect way at the Admiralty. You change some of your men and retain others; there is an iOsfusion of fresh blood, and other:mcmbers of the profession have an opportunity of serving in the Admiralty, where they (acquire knowledge which makes them better officers when e hey re turn to sea. (Hear.) The noble and learned lord lies not referred to block ships, but it has been frequently asked in another place " Why do you keep block ships in different harbours ?" I admit they are useless for the purpc foe of p ing to sea, but for the purpose of drilling men and! as bat teries to guard the mouth of the rivers, they arc us eful ves sels. If we were to condemn them, and send theist back to the dockyards, they would be stripped, become hulks, snad not worth refitting again. I think it is desirable, the: a fore, to keep them up as long as they can be turned to n useful purpose. Some of them are still good and eftl',- eient batteries, and, if their services wore required.:, would be able to defend the mouth of our rivers. (Hear', hear.) I shall not follow the noble and learned lord int o other questions upon which he touched. We may tai it about them more conveniently when we come to consid ev the budget. Let us not mix up anything of party with the is question. What we all want is, that our navy should 1 air powerful. It may be that difficult times are coming, as .d we ought to be prepared for them. Let no consideration ,of party, or of Admiralties, or of Governments prevent !us from doing whatever is necessary to render our nazi - y efficient. That, I think, is the right course to be taken, a u d it is one in which I hope and believe all parties will c°- operate together for the common good. (Cheers.) The Earl of HARD WICKE said the noble, duke had A fully answered the speech of the noble and learned lord, th he had left very little for him to say. He was glad tha t his noble friend had brought this question before their 10rd.... ships; but he must :remind him that he himself had not: neglected his duty, but had early in the session called the attention of the noble duke to the state of the naval reserves. It was true that for a certain period after the peace of 1815 the navy was greatly neglects-5, and that state of things continued until the Russian vsar, when the condition of c ur fleet in the Baltic was per r reetly lamentable. It ought n ot, however, to be forgotten that our power in that sea, such as it was, was mainly ereemd by the Duke of Northumberlas d, who during the short time bre held the office of First Lo rd of the Admiralty, under the Government of his noble fries sd near him (Earl Derby), con structed no less than nine sail. of heavy screw ships. After the conclusion of the Russi, an war, the condition of the rag vy fell off again, until a peri, od arrived when the country was aroused to a sense of i tEI danger. It happened that, his noble friend near him wa $ again in office, and during the short tine , a that he continues I in power the British fleet was, by great exertions and by the exercise of true economy—(hear, f.rom Lord Lyndhurst) — increased by 14 sail of the lin.e, wit . h eight or nine more ships upon the stocks nearly ready fo r launching. A Chan el fleet of considerable power was formed, the Mediterranean fleet was strengthened, and B,oc ,0 seamen and 2,000 marin e / A-1" were added to the navy. I - h attention had been e x by the statements as to th e sus ,posed facilities pos sessed b i Y , the French for manning th e i r navy; an d in consequence ins noble friend appointed a C a :insmission to inquire whether something could not be do as to increase our power in that respect. Ho was, he conf ,ess ed, rather surprised that mea sures into effect the recommendations were en not dation e s a o r f lie th r e a t '' , ,Cos t el l is f s o i r on car . r l y 'h ila e g report was pre sented in May, 1859, an AII cc , ording to the statement oft the noble duke, it was not, trail '.:March last that he really com menced the formation of a i a serve farce. The object of the Commission was to, establish .a permamcnt reserve to be used in case of emergency, and that reserve they proposed to found upon tb.c training ofl zoys in sehoolships. The recep tion of adults was only an intermediate process, by which they hoped to relieve the no ivy from the immediate pressure of the want of an reserve a t all, The accounts received as to the progress of the resery ewe re encouraging, and he be lieved that if it once took ; iv/ th seamen, we should soon have a very considerable n' ainb er of men ready to serve at the call of the country. I io oz sly regretted that so long an interval. was allowed. 'to el apso ' between the presentation of the report of the Cr anzadFition. ; and the setting seriously to work to form the: % res erve. Es also regretted that the Go , arernment had nr ,t proposed to.. raise 5,000 marines in addi tion to the 15 1 0 f JO which fart aed the standard force. The marines werosa most useful' be dy ship had to bE sent to sea in a li ea tergency, by putting on have a trained beard of her :50 marines tb ,ey u 'ottiet., artillery man to each gun, who, w ith tile as as might be picked up for? service, , s hitance of such seamen of men ; and if a 50-gun . tolerably good action. With reg ss sl to the coastguard, t the commissioners I lad fount I that the strength of this force was in at/ft:relent i '.or the due protection, that it. N Vould be able to fight of the revenue, and th ey had come ought to bo raised to a total of 12, Kingdom. In the present unca.sinet s which prevailed be wise to raise the state of Europe, he thought it would ecially as the. the Coastguard to that standard, 1 aoreo o e o sp , n a i s te t d a, number of the men already stood at . to the cn conclusionfooravtctacjeoile.udd in g t 0 the statute book. In ordinary timea to maintain. the Coastguard service as a . for honourable seamen ; but, under ez it°nnlliechet resting - n e g 7 p N l v a e c ll e e increased to 12, o the force should be extended. If it wet (Continued in our fourt4 page') <'`/*IN ~~ !ri4: 4 l,\ " k e- - zr ~~._ ._- is tit ut ,is ry I