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Doors open !at half-PP-st 8. Overture at 9. ;Closing at 12 punctually. AdmiAion, is. REDUcTION OF TEN POUNDS PER TON In the price of THORLEY'SFOOD FOR CATTLE On and after the Ist of April, IF6O. Barrels ttg 448 Feeds, wg nett 1121b5., with measure, 40s each Cases „ 448 Feeds, „ 1121b5., in Packets, 455 each CrArriace paid to any railway station in the kingdom, Nutritives value .. rCiti Condimental value .. .. 125 Total .. .-Cl4o per ton. showing,- a 'profit of £lOO per ton through the use of this in valuable compound, adapted fcr the seasoning of all kinds of food for animals. Agents required in every town where none are already appointed. JOSRPII TFIOItLEY, the Inventor and sole Proprietor. Offices, 77, Newgate-street, London. A Pamphlet sent free by post on application. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.— Statistics show that 50,000 Persons annually fall vic tims to Pulmonary Disorders, including Consumption, • Diseases of the Chest and the Respiratory Organs. 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Regent-street, facing the Polytechnic, supplies his rATENTED INCORRODIBLE TEETH, which can be ima'ched so clo.ely in shape and colour to those left in the mouth, and are formed so exactly to nature, that the closest observer cannot detect the difference, and in all cases they restore perfect articulation and mastication. These teeth are fixed from one ti a complete set noon Mr. Eskell's never failing and painless principle of self-adhesion, without ex tracting any teeth or stumps, or giving any pain whatever ; and being incorrodible they possess the superior advantage of never changing colour nor decaying. Mr. Eskell'scelebra ted Osseoplastic - Enamti, pot free for 30 stamps, for Stop ping Decayed Teeth, is a preparation which never chinges colour nor effects the colour of the tooth, and is free from any injurious properties either as regards the teeth or general health. Its application is easily performed, and without giving the slightest pain. 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All letters to William Grimstoue, London Depot, A,2, High-street, Bloomsbury; and by all respectable merchants and traders. butt Published, in 1 vol., Svo. with numerous Anatomical Plates, post free, on receipt of six penny stamps, VITA VITALIS. - A NEW MEDICAL WORK on the NATURE, TREATMENT and CURE of 1;3 PERMATORRFICEA, and other URINO - GENITAL DISEASES, and consequent exhaustion of the NERVOUS SYSTEM. caused by the errors of Man in youth and sr.; producing a degeneracy of MENTAL and PHYSICAL STRENGTH, tertninatinr.r in debility of the generative or- Ms and INCAPACITY 'FOR MARRIED LINE, sheaving Why those Diseases so often appear Incurable when i n reality they can be effectually removed by the most simple means, together with the Author's remedies for preventing in (yeti on. tva PHYSICIAN, Arc., dEc. (registered under the New liledisal Act). Address, Medici's, 19, Bern ers-street,-Coxford street, London. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Pater noster-row, and all Booksellers in Tawn and Country. Post free for Two Stamps. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY of an entirely NEW THEORY of CURING DISEASE, * being the recorded Experience of 30 Years' Special Practice in Great Britain, France, and America—with the latest Scientific Discoveries, denominated LOCAL SELF-TRENT NT, discovered abroad, and which is so simple that all can practise for himself privately, suczessfully, and at the smallest onst, thus avoiding doctors' fees and their mineral poisons. 'l'he "NEW MODE" is an EXTRAORDINARY DIS COVERY for the Treatment and Self-Cure of Weakness, Debility, Nervousness, Lassitude, Depression of Spirits, Loss of Energy, Appetite, Pains in the Back and Limbs, Timidity, self-Distrust, Dizziness, Want of Energy, Love of Solitude, Groundless Fears, Palpitation of the Heart, Noises in the Bead and Ears, Indecision, Wretchedness, Impaired Sight and Memory, Indigestion, and Bodily Prostration of the whole system. Also, }TINTS TO THOSE CONTEMPLATING MARRIAGE. In order that all classes may avail themselves of the above, the Author has not and Will not allow the same to be sold, but be will forward it to those who send their address, and two stamps for postage.. Address, thus—Wm. HILL, Esq., M.A., No. 27, Alfred-place, Bedford-squa:•e, London. NO MORE MEDICINE FOR 'HABITUAL 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 bo aPPreiate the virtues of Du Barry's F o od. In its effect on chronlS dyspepsia (indigestion), nervousness, constipation, diarrhcea, on bilious and liver complarnts, cough, minim i, de bill ty, and incipient consumption, we find it the safest remedy. —Dr. Ure, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. Harvey, Dr. Bright, Dr. Shor - land, Dr. Campbell. Du Barry's Food cures effectually —Acidity, asthma bilious- Dees, blood to the head, bowel complaints, bronchitis, ca tarrh, colds, congestion, constipation, consumption, ^ramps, rough, debility, despondency, diarrhoea, distem , ion, dizziness, dropsy, drowsiness, dysentery, dyspepsia (Indigestion), erup tions, exhaustion, fevers, epileptic fits, flatulency, gout, ha bitual constipation, headache, heartburn, haemorrhoids, hys teria, impurities, indigestion (dyspepsia,) irritability, irrita tion of kidneys and bladder, liver conrpiaints, loss of memory, l'ow spirits, nausea and sickness, nervousness, nervous fan cies, neuralgia, noises in tke ear, pains between the shoul ders', palpitation, partial 'paralysis, phlegm, pulmonary com rheumatia scrofula, sinking, sleeplessness, sore throat, spasms , tightness across the chest. At about one Denny per it effectually cures the above, also children's c b_ mpiP:Aits, and saves fifty times its cost in medicine. It does Vot turn acid nor interfere with a liberal diet but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty bf digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of many thousand cures : Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder stone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk : "In all cases of in digestion, and particularly where the liver is affected, . ooliald.ur it the best of all remedies.—James 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 Arabica Food. Stuart dc liecies."—Cure No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony irom dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, Ilatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Joly, Wortham D Ling-, near Dies, Norfolk."—Cure No. 52,087: Field-Marshal Os., Duke of I'luskow, of a gastric inflamma tion of the atoussch.—Cure No. 51,614: Baron de Polentz, Prefect of Lane,enau, nf many years' horrible sufferings of the nerves and an obstinate constipation. Cure No. 4 7,121: Miss ElizabetA Taeobsi of Nazing vicarage, 'Waltham Cross, llerts, a cure of extreme nervousness , ' indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.— Cure No. 48,314: Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liz yorpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of bervous irritability. —Cure No. 18,216: Dr, Andrew Ure, of constipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability.—Cure No. 34,210: Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility.—Cure No. 36,212 : Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits.—Cure 42,116 ; Major Edie, of Cl:dare-meta of the liver, and total prostration of strength Cure No. 36,418 : Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps , spasms , and daily vomitings.—Cure No. 28,418 : Dr. Harvey, of diarrhoea and debility.—Cure No. 39,618: Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. —Cure No. 32,880: William Hunt, Esq., Bar ri_ stet'. of paralysis.--Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts , timber merchant, of Fernleyy, Surrey, 30 years' diseased ~cogis, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial mearness.—Cure No. 46,814 : Mr. Samuel Laxton, Let; t eeter, of two years' diarrhoea. -- Cure. No. 52,612: The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' nor- Vas irritability, bile and indigestion, —Cure No. 54,812: Miss trginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medi advisers had abandoned all hopes of ruovery.— ure No. 180: "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con etipation, indigestion, and det.Uity, from which I have fl'ered great misery, and which no medicine could re- R o ve or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du rry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, te et-street, London."—No. 4,208 : " Eight years' dyspepsia, ;Zv i neness, debility - , with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for p n . toll ray servant had consulted the advice of many, have been & n , tually cured by Du Barry's health-restoring 1 ood. I shall /ti",, , PPy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Plavell, ex 'ung - ton Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,51(1: " Three years' a c ossive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, eral debility, which rendered my life very miserable, h as been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring e t i„• Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibberecn." !V o. 3,906 : Thirteen years' cough, indigestion. and gene po,,Tbility, have by - T r: moved by Du Parry exce'l , 2 l S u n C an isters: 11b. 28. ad., 21b, is " k4iterreaned quality : 51b. 22e., 101 b. 335. 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The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular, Dec. Ist, 1858. London: 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. 3, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. CULITERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Lariguor, Incapacity, Less of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of botb Sexes, emanating from early and excessive indul gences, Has Just published, price Is. ; by post, 11 stamps,: 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation —The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. 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To be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working Classes. fee Half-a-Guinea. A MEDICAL E§AYW. CURTIS ON MANHOOD NEW EDITION NERVOUS AND GENERA- TIVE DISEASES. Just Published, the 125th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, or sent post paid, by the Author, forl2 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE -1 MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and rigour. ByJ. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. C lIAPTE It H.—Causes of Superbatorrlicea and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences ; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER I IL—A Review of the ♦arious Disqualifications of Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, bledical and Moral, being the result of a successful practice extending over a period of 25 years. CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting cases, to which is added the Author's receipt of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORN. . -- • • • - - "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 23d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. At home for consultation, daily, from 10 till 3 and 6 to S. Sundays, 10 to 1. MEDICAL ADVICE. DR. LA'ATERT, Registered L.S.A., H onorar y Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, M.D. of the University of Erlangen, &c., may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and on the Socret In firmitics of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La'Mert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engravinv and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, SELF-PRESERVATION, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope. by Mann, 39 Cornhill, London, or by the Author, for Eight stamps. CONTENT. SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. S ECTI ON IL—Puberty- Manhood -The Morale of Genera lye Physiology—True and False Morality. SECTION lll.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tages of Physical Contrasts in securing* Healthy Offspring. SECTION IV.—Spermatorrheea and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION ti I.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifies --The Author's Principles of Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practi4:44 The above work is inteAcd for the perusal of those who have in early life been induced to ,'ii`.l'.A*VC fr,ra the strict rules of inor.dity. In its pag•es of utility are brought together, wholly divested of tue delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the wise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperinge with the genetitutign are Restistly 0119 wed by finical 00neeqUeUCCOt t 2 4 _ _ . • . 4 , :r" • • .t•A **ls4 • , Ns* t ••7•‘) ori • 3/- : - ,402 he Admiralty. . , . k\, „ su* I % ;,Nt' ‘„,011. N ( 03 . 14 .1 114 . , 1". / witnesses; q W u h r , 4 . vltt . P . the kind of timber. , r (is . " The store of tim = DR • ! 1 0,V4 , 'ROIL j +.V; le ;.. 1 4- ,p« ,, k , ftra 411 nit / • sufficient to meet thf . ..... ensure their being - 'ed." vertu PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD. tion, while such eminent manufacturers as Messrs. Craw shaw, Abbott and Sons, or Wool and Co. would be willing to supply similar articles at 945. 6d. (Hear.) For many years he had been convinced that the dockyards were cist ing the country more than they ought to do, and that with proper management £9,000,000, or, at any rate, £10,000,000 would go as far as the £13,000,000 which they were about to vote. A moo searching inquiry ought to take place into its enormous expenditure. Sir M. SEYMOUR, alluding to the caso of the gallant officers which had been brought before the house by the member for Portsmouth, said they had been induced to re move from the ac!ive list, in the hope that as time passed their position would not materially differ from that of the officers remaixing on the active list, and they felt them selves aggrieved because they had not shared in the awards which the other classes had received. The subject had been frequently brought under the notice of the Admiralty, and he trusted the noble lord would be able to deal satis factorily with their claim. A subject equally deserving attention was the case of the widows of warrant offi cers, which had been touched on by the gallant officer the member for Southwark. A certain degree 0. con sideration had been extended by the Admiralty and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to this class, an arrangement having been made by which from Jan., 1860, these widows were to receive their pensions. But it was in evidence that from the year 1830 till now a number of these widows with their children had been compelled to seek relief from the dif ferent unions, and he hoped some measure of relief would also be extended to them. The nary estimates were rightly held to be enormously large, but he did not believe the coup• try would refuse the amount requisite to do justice to the widows of deserving officers. Several instances had come under his own observation, when serving in a distant part of the world, in which warrant officers had lost their lives by climate and exertion. The carpenter of his flagship, after performing his duties with great abilitydnd assiduity, and with much care and economy in the handling of stores, died on his passage home a few months prior to the poriod from which this order would take effect, and had left a widow and several children in great distress. He agreed up to a certain point with what the gallant member for Southwark had said in reference to the Channel fleet; he believed their rules were not so good as they might be, and that in certain ships the conduct of the men had not been so steady and satisfactory as all well-wishers of the navy must desire. But it must be borne in mind that both officers and men on board those ships had been placed in a position of great temptation. In any previous period of our naval history ships with their full war complement had never been kept in the home ports during the entire winter season. In future a different ar rangement would probably be made, and by the distribu tion of vessels in different quarters of the globe, and the judi cious quartering of the coastguard, they might be able to avoid additional expense to the country, at the same time that greater efficiency to the service would be secured. lie thought with the hon. member for Sunderland that the national dockyards were not managed with all the economy possible; but many of the differences between the cost of the same class of ships which the hon. member had been unable to reconcile were entirely owing to the various modes of keeping the accounts in different yards. He ad mitted that the expenditure of the naval dockyards was ex ceedingly heavy ; but the work done in them was of the very best kind. (Hear, hear.) As to the important question of manning the navy, he was glad to hear that the Govern ment intended to carry into effect the recommendations of the manning commission. He fully approved the proposal to keep 1,000 seamen gunners in the home ports as a re serve force, and the plan of a standing reserve of seamen. The marines, too—a body of whom it was impossible to speak too highly—might well be increased by 5,000 or 6,000 men. The difficulty of manning the navy had always been great ; the Admiralty had never been able to get a fleet to gether without considerable difficulty in manning it. A system of general impressment could never be resorted to again; it would not be desirable or justifiable, except, per haps, to the extent of an impressment afloat. With an enemy at sea, and a sudden necessity for men, he did net suppose an Admiral lying with an unmanned fleet at St. Helen's could allow a merchant ship to come up Channel without taking some of her sailors for the public service. The number of seamen in the mercantile marine had greatly increased ; but their money value to the naval service had not yet been quite ascertained. Tho commercial marine of the United States was very large ; but there was this curi ous fact connected with it :—of 150,000 men sailing from American ports only 9,000, or about 1 in 12, were Ameri cans born. Of the crew of the Ohio, a ship of the line, con sisting of 1,000 men, only 182 were native Americans. The rate of pay was a most important question, which the Ad miralty would be compelled to take into serious considera tion; and the pay of all ranks would have to be considered; for at present no class appeared to be satisfied. The gallant Admiral then proceeded to comment upon the great diffi culty which had been experienced on former occasions, as well as at present, in manning the navy, and to paint out how necessary it was to keep the internal defences of the country in a state of efficiency, observing that in 1803 the total military force of the country—when neither her population nor her wealth reached half its present amount—was, including the volunteers, 61;000 men. It was, he added, quite evident that the patriotism of the English people had since that period undergone no diminu tion, and that it rested with the Government to give the national feeling duo effect. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said he wished before the Speaker left the chair to allude to the position of the officers on the captains' reserved list, and to express his belief that the claims which they put forward, and to which reference had been made by the hon. member for Portsmouth, were not without foundation. llad he been aware that the subject would have been entered into that evening, he should hav e had the order in council which bore upon it at hand, in order to substantiate the view which he entertained ; for, although that document was somewhat loosely worded, he could not help thinking the construction which was put upon it by the officers to whom he referred in their memorial was more reasonable than the interpretation of the Board of Admiralty He, under those circumstances, trusted that the Board would be able to take a generous view of the matter, and he might add that they would be enabled to do so with the less diffi culty because of the fact that the list of officers in question must be regarded as an expiring list, and that tho number of names on it was very limited. This was one of those numerous lists which were the result of a succession of con trivances which had been resorted to for a long period as a substitute—and a miserably bad substitute they were—for a good system of retirement and promotion. He did hope that before this session closed the noble lord opposite would be enabled to announce that the Admiralty had adopted a system of retirement that would be satisfaetery to the pro fession. Wheneverwhich necessity that as h de e desirable da creatingb l s ee d n d werew from a s me attainedretime to otheretim substitutese miserable substitutes, for what was due to the be the Admiralty were bound to provide— namely, Navy,tf hen a ced m ssi v e eod l nyl andt a l enowismht aso well-regulated e system of promotion and retire ment. When his noble friend brought forward the Navy Estimates he did intimate that the Admiralty were medi tating a system of retirement which they intended to announce ; such was the general understanding ; he hoped his noble friend would not now object to state that the Admiralty still entertained that intention, and that before the estimates were concluded he would be able to inform Parliament what was the nature of the scheme they proposed to adopt. He had no desire to detain the house longeron this question, but he sincerely hoped the Admi ralty would take a liberal and generous - view of the claim which these gallant officers had made. Sir F. BARING was sorry he had not been present when the case of these officers was brought forward by his gallant colleague. Indeed he only knew of it from expressions which had dropped from the right hon. baronet who had just sat down. It had been his fate to draw up the order on which their claim was founded, and he could speak as to what the intention was. He should have no objection, on the con trary he should be glad to hear that the Admiralty really took a favourable view of these claims ; but, or. the other hand, he was bound to say, what he had stated to the claim ants themselves, that the order never was intended to bear the construction they put upon it. In neither the letter, which stated the intention of the Admiralty, nor in the Or der in Council which carrie d that intention into effect, was e there anything to susta in that construction. The letter was ee not loose, but th perfectly clear, and drew a plain distinc tiontwo classes. What it did was thi s —lt placed on the redundant permanent half-pay list officers who had not served for 20 years, or who were incap a bl e , promis ing them they should rise and enjoy all the advantages they had on the active list, but to those who were promoted it made no such promise—it gave them promotion and nothing , e l s e. It never was the intention to give them more. It did not even in:words do so. He quite admitted the gallant ser vices of these officers, many of whom he had himself placed on the list, and he should be glad if the Admiralty, on a fair consideration of the case, could take any view that might be favourable to them ; but he must say, as a witness, having himself drawn up the order and the letter of the Admiralty on which the vote in Parliament was given, that it was not the intention of the Admiralty to give these officers what they now asked. Mr. HENLEY thought the great amount of the Navy Estimates this year warranted ev er y member in making almost any observations on the m which came strongly be fore his mind. The hon. me mber for Sunderland had al- luded to the report on do ck y ard expenditure, its voluminous nature, and the various subjects with which it dealt. The gallant admiral the member for Southwark also alluded to the deficiency in the supply of timber in the dockyards. • That deficiency was commented on by the commissioners in very strong language. It was almost impossibl e t o spea k more decidedly than they did on this subject. The report of that commission, as had been stated, was naturally 14911134 lOWA t 9 tl;9 Tarim effaces of the dockyards and It was sustained by no less than 22 Lom spoke in the most paritive and ge ialifying their statements by - reference to The report was very strong-- iber, thick stuff plank, and deals is not to ordinary demands of the service and properly seasoned before being con, They go on to say— "ln all the yards the commissioners have found a uni form want of large timber and deck deals." • To six superintendents and many of the officers under them this grave matter was referred. All the disputes which had taken place between the various parties who made this report and counter report—this blast and counter blast, had been as to labour. They all agreed that the labour was costly and that it was well done. There was a difference as to whether it cost more than it ought to do. No one could for a moment doubt that just in proportion as the labour was costly they ought to be careful that the material on which it was expended was good and properly seasoned. A great deal was said by Government of work that was done cheaply b4rig " scamped." They all knew that cheap work was - apt to be vamped; but Scamping in material was much worse than in Nbour, Stamping in labour was more easily seen_ and more easily r6znedied if discovered ; but stamping in the timbar used in shipbuilding was most destructive. That made the ship rotten ; it must then be opened, and it was vFlydiiiicult to say what the cost of that might be. What did the minute of the First Lord of the Admiralty say an this subject ? " They (the committee) ohserve the shipwright offiters devote their attention too much to the quality and rapidity of the work, and too little to the cost."—(Par. 935.) "In thi., remark the committee seam to have overlooked the es- sential difference between skips of war and meroTantships. Wherever the services of a ship of war are required it is in dispensable that the ship should be in all respects efficient. The question of cost, however important, is insignificant compared with the efficiency, because the value of the ship's services cannot be estimated by a price in money. The de tention of the ship for some necessary repairs may be a na tional calamity; its inferiority as a ship_ of war may be at tended with national dishonour." (Hear, hear.) This was a great truth, and theydid not often. meet with one expressed in better language. But did, not, this apply equally to the timber of which a ship was made: as to the labour expended on her ? Whatwas the use of ap plying such good labour to improper materials ? Ono of the five gentlemen who had to make this report dissented from his colleagues. What did he say as to timber ? Mr. gat-- field, master shipwright, says, at p. 118 ' - "It is a fact not generally known, perhaps, but which, ought not to be overlooked, that the value of timber alone in building a ship is equal to the value of all the other stores and the labour added together." In this grave matter of the deficiency of timber, on which • • ' the evidence was uncontradicted, not one of the six superin.- tendents took notice whether the report was true or frlZ Was it wrong to call that a grave charge ? The First Lord of the Admiralty himself, alluding to the allegation of the , committee, that the store of timber was insufficient to meet the ordinary demands of the service, said, and said very na turally, that, if that statement was correct, it conveyed "a grave censure upon the Board of Admiralty." Curious:y enough, the Controller of the Navy did not condescend to notice that charge at all, although he made comments on. the finding of the committee on two other points. Mr. Chatfield also wholly passed by it. When, therefore, men. holding high official positions, while treating the report as highly condemnatory of the system, remained silent upon a charge which they admitted to be grave, one was almost compelled to assume that they assented to its truth. What was the evidence on which the charge rested ? The matter was not only serious in itself, but doubly serious because the Board of Admiralty hal come to a decision upon it that was not founded on any evidence before the house. They might have good grounds for their conclusion, but they had not set them forth. The three master-shipwrights at Portsmouth, Devonport, and Chatham—gentlemen who must be supposed competent to give an opinion on this subject—had borne testimony to the same effect. Mr. Lang, master-shipwright, stated that the large English timber had always been deficient, and that there ought to be three years' stock. At Portsmouth there ought to be a larger' store than at present ; it should be equal to four years' consumption. Mr. Eadie, master-shipwright, said the stock ought to be doubled. Mr. Moore, foreman at Devonport, said that, as a rule, the large timber was not seasoned. Mr. Peake stated that they were very short of large timber at Devonport; that they were using this year's supply. The timber-inspector at Sheerness said they were so short that they were actually using green timber. Mr. Rice, master shipwright at Woolwich, said they had not sufficient store ; that some pieces were used as they came in. It was unne-• cessary to trouble the house with the opinions of the other gentlemen, but there was the concurring testimony of 18 witnesses, all in Government employ, to the purportalready described. It was, however, only fair to notice the evidence of the four gentlemen, also in the service of the Government, who made qualified statements on the same point, Mr. Brown, who had acted as foreman at Portsmouth, stated. that ho did not know bow the store stood at present, but his impression was that the timber lately converted was dry and Reasoned, except the sternposts of the large ships. That w.sts . _ not a very unimportant exception. (A laugh.) Next, 3.lr's Laslett, timber •inspector, said, in his judgment, the timber ,night to bo two years in store, except " the large and com pass timber." The storekeeper at Woolwich said they were pretty well off except in " sternposts and runposts." Mr. Watts, first assistant to the Surveyor-General, gave rather odd evidence. He thought they had between two and three years' average consumption in stock. The master-ship wright said it ought to be four years' ; so that Mr. Watts's testimony was not very strong. But Mr. Watts went fur ther, and added, " We want 60,000 loads this year ;" and he expected to get only 30,000. That evidence was given in 1859. Now, the Storekeeper-General said that in 1859 the consumption would be 55,000 loads. The witnesses who made the qualified statements to which he had just referred. did not therefore in any degree shake the immense mass of testimony on the other side. He now came to the mode in which the Admiralty had met this question. The First Lord had drawn up a memorandum on the subject, which was afterwards confirmed by the Board. The Board took no notice of the matter, except by passing—as was probably the ordinary course—a short minute agreeing to what the First Lord said. The First Lord, in his memorandum, ob served that the finding of the committee as to the insuffi ciency of the stores, if correct, implied a grave censure on. the Board of Admiralty ; but he added that the committee did not explain "what they considered to bo the ordinary demands of the service." The First Lord continued—and this was a passage deserving the special attention of the house— " The Storekeeper-General has given a satisfactory answer to the statement." That was the only thing on which the First Lord founded himself. He showed that although the expenditure of timber during the last two years had been unprecedented, yet the stores had been in excess of the establishment; and he went on to say it was to be hoped that such a high rate of timber expenditure would not be necessary in future years, jid therefore it was not expedient to increase the permanent establishment of shipbuilding timber. Strangely enough, the First Lord of the Admiralty, following, it was to be supposed, in the wake of the Storekeeper-General, made no allusion what-. ever to the question of the timber being seasoned ; and, from the way in which the Storekeeper-General treated the matter, he did not seem to regard it at all the business of his department to express any opinion as to the seasoning or not seasoning of the timber. He merely answered alt the claims made upon him, and if a man asked him for as stick of timber he gave him one, whether it was fit to use' or not. That was a proceeding about as sensible as to give se pair of shoes to a man who wanted a pair without any re-- gard to the size of his foot. (A laugh.) It was to be doubted. whether anybody, looking curiously at the report of the Storekeeper-General, would agree with his Grace the First Lord that it was satisfactory because that report appeared. entirely to confirm the statement of the committee. The Storekeeper-General commenced his paragraph in answer to the committee by setting out a long array of figures showing what had been the supply of timber in various , years, and giving the actual consumption from 1830 down to 1858 inclusive. He then went on to say, " I need scarcely observe that the expenditure of shipbuilding timber since• the year 1853, and still less within the last 12 months, can not reasonably be regarded as meeting only the ordinary demands of the public service." He did not notice that part of the report which referred to the timber being seasoned and fit for consumption, but went on to say that the present consumption of shipbuilding timber of large scantling was unprecedented, that the consumption of timber during the years 1857 and 1858 was double that of the years 1837 and 1838, while the receipt of shipbuilding timber in those years was morn than five times what it was in 1537 and 1838, and that the stock of timber on the 30th Juno last was in excess of the establishment by 6,500 loads. What did all this come to ? Up to the beginning of the year 1858 what was called the establishment of timber was 53,000 loads ; in that year it was raised to 60,000 loads. Had not the Storekeeper-General afterwards given the figures he should have thought that the reference to the years 1837 and 1838 was intended to mystify, and throw dust in the eyes of the house, because of all the evils which followed the Reform Bill there was none which was greater, and none which more conduced to the removal of the Reformers from office than their shameful neglect of the navy. (H ear , h ear .) He believed it was now admitted on all hands that these two years, 1837 and 1838, formed the crowning period of the deficiency of timber, and that during those years the store was so fabulously low that it was hardly possible to conceive how any one could have had—he was going to say the impudence—but, at all events, the face so to have dimi nished the stock of materials for the Queen's navy. (Hear, hear.) He did not know whether the returns which had been supplied to the house were worth the paper upon which they were printed, because in the answers as well as in the evidence things peeped out which raised a doubt whether those accounts were very correct. For his own purpose, however, he was entitled to use them as figures supplied by the Government, and to treat them as correct. As he understood the minute of the First Lard, a store of 60,000 loads of timber was sufficient for the future. He had al ready shown by the evidence taken before the committee, and he would endeavour to show by other figures, which would not easily be disputed, that whether they looked to the number of men in the navy, to the number of vessels, to their quality, or to the greater wear and tear in screw vessels, as compared with sailing ships, such as stare, was NolitilAcd 91 PaiSe.l THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1860. 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Tattersalls' ; the Universal Office, Regent-circus ; Griffin's, Green Man and Still, Oxford-street; Golden Cross, Charing-cross; 53, King William-street, City ; the Swan with Two Necks, Gresham-street, City; and at the Waterloo, bridge station. Waterloo-bridge Station, April, 1860, By Order. 111DUBLIC HOUSE.—The City Arms Tavern, Hammersmith Bridge; Leaseholds, Tichbourne - street, Edvware-road. TO BE SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the High Court of Chancery. made in a cause of Palmer Ir . . Goren," with the approbation of Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kinders ley, in',Two:Lots, by Mr. CHARLES FRANCIS HUMBERT, the person appointed by the said Judge, at the Auction Mart in Bartholomew-lane, in the City of London, on THURS DAY, the 3rd day of May, 186 ), at 12 o'clock at noon pre cisely, the following Copyhold and Leasehold Estates ; that is to say—Let 1. A Copyhold Public House and Premises called`or known as The City Arms Tavern, near the bridge at Hammeramith, in the county of Middlesex, with a small Messuage at the end of the Garden,and also two pieces of Copy hold Land or ground adjoining thereto, and held therewith. These Premises (except the said two pieces of land or ground) are to be sold subject to a mortgage for £l,OO l at 5 per cent. The said two pieces of land or ground are subject to the dower or freebench of a lady in the 49th year of her age, in the event of her surviving her husband, who is in the 65th year of his age. This Lot is held of the Manor of Fulham at it nominal fine. Lot 2. A Leasehold Messuage and Premises, No. 24, Tich bourne-street, Edgeware-road, Middlesex, held for the resi due of a term of 91 years and three-quarters of another year, from the 24th day of June, 1828, at a ground rent of .£7. Particulars and conditions of sale may be had gratis of Mr. Edward Doyle, of No. 2, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, so licitor ; of Mr. James Goren, of South Molton-street, Oxford street, solicitor; of Mr. Eyre, of George-street, Mansion kouse, solicitor; of Messrs. Crane, S.m, and Fesenmeyer, of Bedford-row, solicitor.; of Sir. Haut, of Great James-street, Bedford-row, solicitor; at the Auction Mart; and of the Auctioneer, at Watford, Herts. CHAS. PUG 11, Chief Clerk. tion whether there was not some method by which the in- fliction of the lash might be very much diminished. The petty officers ought, in the first place, to he put on a better footing ; and when that was the case, and a more respec .. table class of men was secured, there would be no necessity for corporal punishment as regarded them. He did not approve of the manner in which these men were punished at present. The captain now had the power of disrating a petty officer, and then if he committed any other offence he mightbe punished for it. That was a great power to put into the hands of captains, and he did not think they ought to possess it. These petty officers should be so lemnly tried by a court-martial ; this court would be able to dismiss a man from the service, and, considering that he would lose alt the time he had served and his rating, this would be a very severe punishment. If necessary, also, imprisonment might be inflicted in addition. Then how was-the sailorto ba punished ? It should be remem bered that a seaman worked Tery hard to get 6d. a-day for 10 years, and that te must work still harder to get ls. a- day. If he conducted himself improperly therefore he should be tried by court-martial, and the knowledge that lie was liable to be dismissed from the service would have a considerable effect in deterring him from the commission of offenoes. Looking at the few instances in which, accord ing to Parliamentary returns, corporal punishment had been inflicted by sentence of court-martial, as compared with the number of cases in which it had boon inflicted by order of the captains, he thought that this power should be taken away from the latter. There was now a great feeling in the country a;ainst the lash, and it would be impossible to maintain the punishment do its present footing. Then, . _ again, a new code should be established, instead of the bloodthirsty cod© which obtained at pre sent. According to the Articles of War, almost every offence was to be visited with death. How could any man ha expected to enter the service if he read the Articles of War and saw that this extreme penalty awaited almost 'every offence ? Another complaint made by seamen was of the discomfort of the hulks. Now, there was on board the hulks groat disorder and want of discipline, but under the present system there was no necessity for hulks at all. Ships were now perfectly ready to receive men in our different ports ; they were fitted out quite ready for sea, except as to perishable stores. Then as to the mode of paying off ships upon arrival in this country, he found the Admiralty had repealed the order which had been so much complained of in former times. Admiral Bowles had shown how men coming home after a long absence would naturally desire to see their wives and families, and it was contrary to human nature to keep them al ra l id on b off. oa H rd e u a n gr ti e l ed all w t i h th e was impolitic and s A to d r m os ir w al e ß re o i l - v e l t e u s rn th e a d t a s n u d ch th a o p sh ro ii c ) eeding unwise. It was bad economy, too, as he knew from expe rience ; for captains and crews were alike impatient of leave, and consequently the stores were dealt with in a man ner that was not for the public benefit. Ha thought the ship on arrival should be turned over to the superintendent of the dockyard, who would see that the stores were returned in a proper manner. The Admiralty would fail in carrying out their order, as they had failed in the case of the Princess Royal. The order to turn the crew over to another ship pro voked a mutiny, for which 180 men were tried in block by a court-martial—a thing never heard of before. The men were tried and sentenced to imprisonment ; but then, having im prisoned the men, the Admiralty repented and released them. He thought he could suggest a plan by which we might have 10 additional sail of the line ready for sea without increased expense. He would have a line- of-battle ship at each of the different largo ports. The Admiralty had at last managed to place a real ship at Liverpool, and to withdraw the block ship, which was an object of derision to all the sailors visiting that port. At present there were eight block ships, which, if an emergency arose, would be compelled to remain in port and run great risk of capture by the enemy. Yet those block ships were considered as our reserve in case of war, to be manned by the coastguard, assisted by the coast volunteers. The house had been much misled as to the numbers of the coastguard, and he had unintentionally assisted in misleading it. He had stated last year that the number of the coastguard was 8,20), and the manning com mittee recommended an increase to 12,000; but Admiral Martin, who had been at the Admiralty himself, had pub lished a sensible pamphlet, in which he stated that the total reliable number of coastguard mon was 3,200. The balance were shoregoing men, who ought to be got rid of and their places supplied by sailors. Tf Admiral Martin's figures were correct (and he was but recently from the Admiralty) that was a miserable reserve for this country. True, there wore the coast volunteers, but they could not be relied upon. Ho would recommend that the old system of sea fencibles should be adopted, but if that could not bo done ho would take the coast volunteers for what they were worth. Very few of them could go aloft, but they wore exercised at the guns, and were intended to assist in manning the block ships at the different ports. Ho would remove the masts and yards from those vessels (for they could neither sail nor steam), and would allow them to remain for the de fence of the ports. ' Then, if there wore eight or nine ships of the lino ready at the different ports, directly a war broke out the Government could send down orders for manning those ships by the coastguard, and they would be at once ready for sea. He came now to tho question of a reserve. He found, on the last occasion on which he made inquiry into that subject, that the number of men on the reserve list was only between 600 and 700; so that, adding those to the Coast guard force, estimated at 3,200, we could not count on more than 4,000 men, if so many, coming within the description of a reserve. They had been told, both by the Secretary to the Admiralty and the member for Halifax (Sir C. Wood) that France could man the whole of her foot whenever she pleased. The men destined to serve in the French navy were all regularly organised and could be promptly draughted on board of ship. On the other hand, the men we had en listed on the reserve were far from being efficient. They were not oven so good as those who served in the Baltic. He was not blaming the Admiralty for that ; they were doing their best ; but ho blamed the Government for reducing the bounty from £6 to £2 or £3. (Hear, hear.) The Manning Commission of last year,directed attention to the extreme importance of encouraging seamen to qualify themselves as seamen-gunners. He was anxious to hear from the Secre tary to the Admiralty to what extent that recommendation had been carried out. Again, the system of allotments called loudly for improvement. At present an interval of nearly six weeks must elapse before a wife or relative of a seaman in the navy could receive a single farthing of his embarked. Wh a t , i n th e name of God, obaer.a)vallilaeblceotonteanaidedan,sthwaitfethfroe malltohte avlelroyt m m e o n ro t a m u o t n h e o y ' mwasentshmeotnoedyoowuigthhtout it in hi s a b sence ? (A laugh.) The t(ne commission of 1852, composed of excellent officers, recome mended that, besides the Channel fleet, 10,000 men should always be in the home ports. A later commission proposed to reduce the number in the home ports to 4,000, exclusive of the Channel fleet. A subsequent commission, for which he moved, recommended that the number should be 4,000 besides those serving in the Channel fleet and the harbour guardahips. The commission of 1852 recommended that a largo ship, like the Britannia, should be stationed at Ply mouth, with four additional training ships; but that had not been done. Another recommendation was that school. ships should be established. He asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether that suggestion had been carried out. [Lord C. Paget.—One is preparing.] He was glad to hear it. It was also recommended that the Merchant Seamen's fund should be re-established. Had that been done ? The noble lord (Lord C. Paget) held his tongue, and ho (Sir C. Napier) took it for granted that it had not. Again, there was probably no gentleman in that house who did not believe that Greenwich Hospital had been otherwise than a boon to the seamen. But he (Sir C. Napier) would be very much mistaken if hon. members were not thunderstruck when they came to learn from the report of the recent commission the disgraceful manner in which the hospital had been managed for God knew how long. Another recommendation of the commission was in favour of a better regulation for the payment of wages when a ship was fitting out. Tie believed the Admiralty was con sidering this point, but they always considered things so long ,that probably a year would elapse before the recom mendation of the committee mild be carried out. The commission recommended that a reserve force of not less than 70,000 men should be established. This number of men they were not likely to get under the present system. If the Admiralty were to give the short service pension mon to understand that if they joined the reserve allow ance would be made for past services, they might be induced to come forward; but at present they would not do so, especially as they were liable to be sent off immediately to distant parts of the world. The commission wound up by expressing their opinion that the reliefs at the home ports should be speedily raised, but they all knew that they were not being speedily raised, and that a period of seven years might elapse before the reserve could be established under the present system. He deprecated the expenditure of money for the erection of forts at Alderney and other places where they would not be of the slightest use. It would be infinitely better to spend the money on Armstrong's guns, not one of which had yet been placed on board a man of war. (Hear, hear.) His own opinion was that the only certain way of manning the navy in case of war was to call the seamen out by proclamation and by classes, imposing a penalty on all captains of merchant ships who retained men falling under the proclamation, and ho would either give the men a high bounty or high pay. They would never get sailors to defend the country in time of need unless they offered them liberal inducements to enter the service. He defied any ono to say that the British fleet was now in such a position as to meet a well disciplined enemy, and to be morally certain of vanquishing him in whatever part of the world he might present himself. On the contrary, if an en emy's fleet put to sea immediately, we could not be so con fident of victory as formerly. There ought, however, to be no doubt on such a subject, and unless the Government acted with spirit and yigoi,ile §hyuld bring fuward a pub- stantive motion with the C.iew of obliging them to put the country in a proper state of defenco. (Hear, hear.) POST.CAPTAINS ON THE RESERVED LIST. Sir J. ELPHINSTONE rose, pursuant to notics, to call attention to the case of post-captains on the reserved list. He regretted that the advocacy of the claims of these gen- tlemen had not been undertaken by some officer belonging to the Royal navy ; but at least it could not have fallen into the hands of any ono who was more thoroughly con- vinced of the hardship of their treatment, and ho trusted that he should be able to induce the Admiralty to grant their prayer, and to give them in their old age that increase of pay which was manifestly their right. On the 25th of March, 1851, in consequence of the overcharged state of the Navy List, an Order in Council was issued, beginning a system of retirement, and as an experiment 50 commanders were selected for their eminent services as being proper to be placed on the reserved list, for the purpose of being pro- rooted to the rank of post-captain, and to rise (as he should show) by seniority to the rank of Admiral. The Order in Council stated that the number of commanders on the active List would be reduced to 450—firstly, by promoting 50 com- menders to the rank of captain ; secondly, by increasing to 100 the list of commanders promoted to the rank of retired captain under the Order in Council of 1810 ; and thirdly, " By placing on reserved half-pay all commanders who have not served afloat, or in the packet or revenue service, within 20 years, or who are physically incapable of service, and by continuing from time to time to remove such officers from the active list to reserved half-pay. Officers who may be thus placed on reserved half-pay will be allowed tb re tain all the advantages they now enjoy of rising in pay or rank, or of receiving the Gicenwichoiit-pension." [Lord C. Paget.—" Read the next paragraph."] The next paragraph was as follows : " The system of promoting by brevet will be abandoned. Fifty lieutenants, however, will bo promoted by selection to the rank of commander, to be placed on reserved half-pay, in the same manner as specified in the case of commanders promoted to be captains. The letter to the 50 commanders thus promoted to be cap- tains; from the First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that in consideration of their services he offered them this promo- Lion, and that if they accepted tho offor it would not prevent them from being eligiblo for a commander's out-pension for Greenwich. In 1851 Capt. Allen was appointed to a Green- wich out-pension, NA subsequently two other captains on the reserved list received similar appointments. But ano ther captain was refused the out-pension, on the pretext that by a recent regulation he was not eligible to be put upon the Greenwich out-pension. Ho held in his hand the commission issued to these officers, which in till respects resembled that issued to post-captains, except that the words, " for rank only," were inserted in the Corner. An hon. and gallant gentleman now no more (Capt. L. Ver non)—to whom ho could not allude without expressing the great loss which the house had suffered from his untimely fato—(hoar, hear)—had recently road a letter from an officer high in the Admiralty, calling upon a gentleman (Mr. Churchward) to continue a series of graphic sketches of the services of those very officers, in order to satisfy the country that they were entitled to be placed on the reserved list. One of these officers, Captain Gordon, applied to be admitted to an out-pension at Greenwich, and he received an answer, signed by Mr. Phinn, stating that his name had been placed in the list of candidates, and that at the proper time his claims would be taken into consideration. At the same time he was informed that the object in granting these pen,sions was the relief of officers who might be old, wounded, or disabled, and that if the pension were granted he would be ineligible for further employment. It ap peared, therefore, that his application had been entertained by the Admiralty, and that he had received intimation that it had been duly noted. When Captain Gordon rose to the grado of captain, which entitled him to have his pay in creased to 12s. 6d. a-day, ho wrote to the Admiralty on the subject, and was informed that being on the reserved list he was not entitled to any increase of half-pay. Ho renewed his application, but the Admiralty refused to enter further into the question. Having hoard it hinted that the ser vices of the officers to whose case he referred were not suffi cient to entitle them to be placed on the list, ho had con sulted Byrne's Naval Biography, and found such over whelming evidence to the contrary before he :got to the names commencing with C, that he did not think it neces sary to go through the whole list. The services of those under the letters A, B, and C wore numerous and distin guished, and no doubt the same might bo said of all of them. He hoped the Admiralty would consent to grant these officers the privileges to which they were in strict jus tics entitled under the terms of the agreement, and which they were deprived of by a more quibble. These gentlemen were most of them seventy years of age and upwards, aid could enjoy the benefits they claimed for only a few years, if conceded, as he trusted they would be. Mr. LINDSAY admitted that the case of the reserved post-captains was entitled to consideration, but begged the house to reflect upon the enormous cost of the half-pay sys tem. For the present year more than £690,000 was absorbed in half-pay, and £148,000 in pensiois and allowances, and yet the arrangement was as unsatisfactory to the officers as it was inexpedient for the country. It was high time, he thought, that the whole question of the reserved and re _ _ tired lists should be looked into. To increase the number of midshipmen in the navy would tend only to enlarge the half-pay list, and he believed the better plan would be to give petty officers a higher grade and permit them to dis charge some of the duties of midshipmen. As was well known, he disapproved the report of the Commission on Manning the Navy, and held that the proper remedy for the present state of things was to give the officers of the mercantile navy a status as officers of reserve. It was only due to the Admiralty to say that they had used every ex ertion possible to carry out the recommendations of the Commission on the Manning of the Navy, and for his own part he believed that in the event of invasion the sailors in the merchant service would to a man come forward to defend the country so as to render recourse to the old sys tem of impressment unnecessary. But ho wished to direct at ten tion to the enormous and constantly increasing amount of the expenditure under this head. In 1852 the expendi ture for the navy was £5,800,000 ; in 1853, £6,300,000 ; in 1858, £8,800,000; in 1359, £11,770,000; and this year it, was £12,800,000. At the same time, there was every pro spect of the estimates next year being still further increased. Every one seemed to feel, but no one seemed to say against whom we were arming. It was best to be honest and say at once that we were arming against France. (Hear, hear.) France was also enormously increasing her expenditure in armaments. It was because we were afraid of France and France was afraid of us. The two countries were entering into treaty engagements and mutually professing great friendship, while they were each showing the mockery of those professions by increased expenditure and increased taxation. He felt sure that if the right means were adopted something could be done to prevent such a monstrous state of things, and it was his opinion that we had no need to be afraid of France, that France had no intention whatever of attacking England, and that the Emperor was much too enlightenel not to perceive how much it was his interest and the interest of Europe to be at peace with England. But, assuming that it was necessary to maintain a vast fleet, there could be no objection to reduce the ex penditure if it could be proved that the fleet could be main tained as efficient as at present for less money. The Dock yard Committee appointed by the Admiralty, and consist ing of Admiralty mon, reported that 20 per cent. could be saved in the cost:of new works alone. They said that great changes were, necessary in the mode of superintending the men, and that additional machinery was required to save manual labour. Even now the cost of the same sized ships was different in different dockyard'. The committee wont into details of eight corvettes of 1,400 tons each, which had been built, and it appeared that while the cost in Davenport dockyard was £4 Bs. 3d. per ton, the cost in Woolwich dockyard was £6 17s. Bd. per ton , A 51-gun frigate had cost £5 ss. 10d. per ton at Portsmouth, while another 51- gun frigate of rather less tonnage had cost only £3 17s. 9d. per ton at Chatham. Tho Mersey had cost £3 19s. 71d. per ton, while the Orlando, a vessel of exactly the same charac ter, had cost £5 4s. Bd. It might be that the materials cost more at one yard than another, but he had been unable to find any satisfactory explanation of this different cost at dif ferent yards in the counter reports presented by the naval authorities. It would be of great service to the public inte rest if the First Lord of the Admiralty would consent to the report of the committee and the counter report being sub mitted to :a select committee of the House of Commons, which might in pure into certain allegations made in the re port, and decide which were in the right, the original com mittee or the naval authorities. If there were doubts as to any of the statements made in the report or counter report, the select committee might have both parties before them and cross-examine them on the points at issue. After the ground had been properly cleared a Royal commission might then, perhaps, be appointed with advantage, to see whether it really was possible to reduce tho dockyard expenditure by 20 per cent. At present the dockyards' accounts were made up in such a form that they were a complete puzzle, though tho present Secretary had certainly made a beginning of what would be a groat improvement. In July last he had called attention to the fact that we were paying for anchors £3,434, the market price for which would be only £1,428. A return was subsequently laid on tho table, from which it appeared that the - prices had been reduced, and that from 1842 to 1849 the cost of anchors of 20 cwt. and under 30 cwt. was £1 16s. ; of those over 30 cwt. and under 50 cwt., £2 Bs. ; over 50 cwt. and under 70 cwt., £2 17s. , and of those over 70 cwt. and under 95 cwt., £3 ss. But a docu ment bearing the signature of Mr. Dundas, storekeeper to the navy, showed that no reduction had been made, but that the price of anchors in 1845 was the same as in 1841. The question, therefore, presented itself —was this a reli able return, or could the statement in the letter be inaccu to the contractors 180 s, per cwt., inaccu rate? (Hear.) He had made a calculation of the price of four anchors ranging from 20 to 70 cwt., and found that the t A ir c i 9 r Ti a Z w t 7l e ti; Y :lM set lip t 9 pi tic oppeti- MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. M'CortmACK took the oaths and his seat for the city of Londonderry. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills wore read a third time :—South Devon Railway, and West Dorset Railway. The following bills were read a second time :—Eau Brink Drainage ; Dublin and Kingstown and Dublin and Wick low Railway Companies; Dublin and Wicklow Railway; and Matlock Water. The Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway Bill was considered and ordered for third reading. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented in favour of the total abolition of church rates ; from the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight against any alteration in the present laws ; by Mr. WILLIAMS, from the vestry of Lambeth, to the effect that the innovations introduced in the religious ceremonies in St. George's-in-the-East wore a disgrace and a scandal to religion, and praying for the interference of the house, with a view to sours legislative enactment to prevent a recurrence of the practices which had given such offence to the parishioners of St. George's-in-the-Bast; against the Highways Bill; from the licensed victuallers of the north of London against, and from different parts of the country in favour of, the licensing for the sale of wine of eating houses, &c. ; from tho inhabitants of two parishes in Kent, praying for the immediate and total abolition of the duty on hops ; from the division of the Western Biding of Yorkshire for electoral Purposes, &c. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. BRAND, the Speaker was directed to issue a writ for the election of a burgess to serve for the borough of Harwich, in the room of the Hon. W. F. Campbell, raised to the Upper House. CIRCULATION OF BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. Alderman SALOMONS gave notice that he would ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question relative to the extraordinary diminution of the number of notes in the Bank of England, as shown in the Gazette of Friday last. THE REFORM BILL. Mr. MASSEY gave notice that, on the second reading of this bill, he would move that it be referred to a select committee. NAVAL EXPENDITURE. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Sir C. NAPIER said that before the Speaker left the chair he wished to make a few remarkson the navy, which, he thought, was not in a satisfactory condition. Last ses sion, before the change of Ministry, the present Secretary to the Admiralty stated that a deficit of something like £5,000,000 had been created in 11 years, and the noble lord attributed it, or at least a large portion of it, to constant alterations and changes of ships. But,it appeared from re turns on the table that, while about £90,000 was expended upon alterations between 1830 and 1843, in the 11 years during which Sir Baldwin Walker was Surveyor of the Navy the outlay under that head did not amount to more than £550. There was a great difference between the con version of sailing ships into screws and the capricious alte rations of vessels before they left the stocks. A few years ago sailing ships became useless, and a considerable sum had necessarily been expended on their conversion. By the alterations which had been lately made, and which the house, no doubt, approved, the country had at last got a very large and powerful steam fleet, though the getting it had cost a great deal of money. Successive Governments of late had allowed the French to go ahead, and therefore it became necessary to expend enormous sums of money to enable the navy of this country to recover its proper posi tion. The whole of the alterations had been effected with green timber ; and this did not agree with the old timber, which the ships wore originally made of, so that by the time when the whole of the navy should be converted into screw vessels it would be requisite to begin to repair the ships over again. Consequently the country need not ex pect a diminution in the Navy Estimates next year. The country had likewise got, after a lung struggle, a Channel Fleet; but, as far as he understood, it was indifferently manned, and the manning of it was not yet complete. There was a great want of petty officers, who constituted the back bone of the navy. This was owing to the Channel fleet being paid off in 1857, when the potty officers were turned adrift to get other employment how they could ; and it would now take years to bring back the fleet to the condition in which it was in 1857. There was also a want of midshipmen, owing to the course pursued by the Admiralty, and the Government ought to repair the error by borrowing from the merchant service. He had complained over and over again that no encouragement was given to the lower clad of officers to rise in the navy, and that the distinction in pay and ether matters between the petty officers and the corn moil seamen was not sufficient to give the former a proper command over the ' latter. The effect was seen in the mutinies by which the fleet had been disturbed since the present Board of Admiralty came into office; and the last mutiny on board the Edgar was more important than the others, because it was begun by the marines. This was the first time ho had heard of the marines rising in mutiny against their officers, and unless those strict and severe mea sures which mutiny necessitated were' adopted, there was no knowing to what extent these mutinies would go. The warrant officers had been put upon a better footing, but with regard to the grant of a pension to the widows of war rant officers, though the Government had conceded that, yet they had done it in a shabby way. The widow of a warrant officer appointed in December last and deceased in January would get a pension ; whereas, if he happened to die in 1859, his widow would get no pension, though ho had gone through hard service for 10 or 15 years as a petty officer. With regard to the Channel fleet, it was true that we had one ; but the Admiralty did not make a proper use of it. In the present position of this country they ought to have the means of increasing the fleet at any moment without much expense. The commission recommended that there should be more marines in our garrison towns ; and if fewer marines and more seamen were on board ship yoU might on an emergency, by shifting the seamen to other vessels and supplying their place with marines, soon double the fleet. This had been impressed on the Govern ment over and over again, but without effect. It was said, " Oh, we can't got seamen." Why, then, had they cut down the bounty from £lO to £2 or £3 ? The fleet was not yet complete, and from what he heard it was by no me.ins manned as an English fleet should be. With regar4 to corporal punishment, he was of opinion that it would be impossible to maintain discipline if that system were at once abolished. 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