The Sun. — London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. at The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat 011 the woolsack the usual hour. UNION CHARGEABILITY BILL. Some petitions were presented in favour of this bill. EXHIBITION OF MINIATURES AT KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Earl STANHOPE asked a question of the Government relative to this subject. He said that the catalogues were charged at the exorbitant price of 55., and considered that it should be reduced to one-half. Earl GRANVILLE was understood to say that, under existing circumstances, it was impracticable to reduce the price of the catalogues, which were very expensive, and would entail a loss if any reduction were to take place. SLAVERY IN THE SPANISH COLONIES. Lord BROUGHAM complained of the delay that took place in the presentation to the house of the papers relat ing to the slave trade, and strongly denounced the conduct of the Spanish Government in continuing the abominable system of slavery. Earl GRANVILLE said that remonstrances had been made to the Spanish Government by her Majesty's Ministers. Lord BROUGHAM said he did not deny the statement of the noble lord, but despaired of any success until this country took more active measures. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Baroness Windsor's Estate ; Tyne Improvement ; Crieff and Comrie Railway; Aberdeenshire Roads; London, Chatham, and Dover, and London and South Western Railway Compa nies ; Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway ; Midland Railway (New Lines, &c.) ; London and North Western Railway (Additional Powers, Wales) ; Lancashire Union Railways ; Busby Railway; and Newcastle-upon- Tyne Improvement. The following bills were read a third time and passed : —Edwards Disabilities Removal ; Lakes Inagh and Derryclare, &c., Fisheries ; West Sussex Junction Rail way ; Ripon Local Board ; North British Railway (Lass wade, &c., Branches) ; Great Eastern Railway (Bishop Storford Railway) ; Okehampton Railway (No. 1) ; Metro politan District Railway ; North British Railway (Edin burgh station and Market). INFRACTION OF THE WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Marquis of WESTMEATH brought before the house the information promised in debate to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London on Friday, the 12th May, respecting infractions of the authorised worship of the Church of England, which were particularly mentioned as having taken place in St. Andrew's, Holborn, as well as other churches, and also the solemn oath alleged to have been taken by the Rev. J. Goring, of St. Paul's, Lorrimer square, and his curate, in a pastoral address issued by him, called " The Seal of Confession." The noble lord regretted that the subject had not fallen into abler hands than his, but at the same time he would state that he had paid much attention to this subject. It could not be denied that the cere monies 'of the Roman Catholic Church were making great inroads into the State Establishment, and he made that assertion on the testimony of several most respectable ministers of the Church of England. Ho referred in particular to Stoke Newington, where he had attended service at Stoke Newington, and found that the service and psalms were intoned, and the whole proceedings conducted in conformity with the ritual and ceremonies of the Church of Rome—indeed so completely that per sons might imagine themselves in a Roman Catholic place of\worship. He referred to the practice that prevailed in other metropolitan churches to show the growth and extent of Roman Catholic ceremonies amongst the Protestant clergy ; and he contended that it was evidsart some very vigorous measures must be adopted to arrest the progress of those practices which were gradu ally undermining the Protestant form of religious service in this country. He adverted next to the churches specified in his motion, and said that the testimony on which the imputed practices were alleged to exist could not be impugned. The Bishop of LONDON said he was quite ready to use his authority and power in checking these practices when ever he could do so legally and with any prospect of success. Lord EBURY had long deplored the inefficiency of the law on this subject, but five years ago, when he made an attempt to provide a remedy, no one of their lordships would second the motion. In his opinion the Government or the bench of bishops ought to take up the question without delay. After ineffectual efforts on the part of the Earl of ►SHAFTESBUItY and Lord HouoirroN to address the house, which manifested a decided disinclination to prolong the debate, the subject was allowed to drop. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked whether the Government would consent to the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the operation and results of the Fisheries Act. Ho complained of the manner in which the measure had been carried out, especially in Ireland, where the most ancient rights of property had been summarily abolished. Earl GRANVILLE could not agree to the request of the noble marquis to grant an inquiry, for which, he said, there could as yet be no necessity, seeing that the act had been in operation only one year. Tho commissioners in Ireland had given many decisions, and 44 of them had been appealed against. Of these, however, 13 had been affirmed, and one dismissed on technical grounds, and he believed that most of the others had been withdrawn. After a few words from the Earl of DONOUGHMORE who spoke approvingly of the commissioners, the subject dropped. The Union Chargeability Bill, the Dockyards Extension Bill, the Drainage and Improvement Land Acts (Ireland) Amendment Bill, and the Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 2) Bill), were severally passed through committee. The Dogs Regulation (Ireland) Bill, the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill, and the Militia Pay Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Commons' amendments to their Lordships' amend ments on the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Bill were agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the Courts of Justice Building Bill were not insisted on. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Mansfield and Worksop Road, Metropolitan Market, Mid land Great Western Railway of Ireland (No. 2), North of England Union Railway, Ogmore Valley and Ely Valley Extension Railway Companies, Swansea and Aberystwith Junction Railway, Ventnor Harbour. would be incurred. In short, the whole system would break down. Mr. BRIGHT charged the Admiralty with eKti avagance and waste, and declared that their managetamt was not reputable to themselves, was discreditable Parliament, and oppressive to the country. The Secretary to the Board was the great reformer of this departm •,u l efore he took office, and used to make speeches to wh :. those of Mr. Seely were mere whispers of discontent. He had now been [ti office six years, yet none of his predecessors had been so _ _ perpetually found fault with on all sides, whilst none had ever been so confident and plausible in the answers he gave to those who contended with him. The only excuse he could make for him was, that the Admiralty was so vast, so expensive, and the whole concern so chaotic, that it was hopeless to attempt any improvement. The house having divided, the motion for going into committee of supply was negatived by 36 to 34, being a majority of two against the Government. Thus the amend- ment of Mr. Seely became the original motion. This un foreseen result appeared to take the Ministerial bench com- pletely by surprise. At once the four Government whips, Mr. Brand, Colonel White, Mr. Hugessen, and Mr. Adam, were summoned to the presence of their chief, who had been in the house all the evening and voted in the divi- sion, and who now dispatched them to beat up the haunts of his supporters. Meanwhile, the debate continued, and the motion was opposed byMr. Scourfield, Mr. Neate, Lord R. Montagu, Mr. Corry, Mr. Childers (lay lord of the Admiralty), Admiral Walcott, Mr. Finlay, and Mr. Laird. Mr. BRIGHT urged the Government not to divide a second time, but rather to accept the motion, which had been framed in terms which were equally reasonable and gentle, and would really assist the Admiralty in the right performance of their duties. Mr. 0. Stanley, Mr. Dalglish, and Mr. Ayrton supported the motion. Lord PALMERSTON argued that no other than a naval officer could efficiently superintend the fitting out of a ship intended for warlike purposes. Those who now held the office were perfectly competent to",perform its duties, and as the resolution was erroneous in the conclusion to which it pointed, and unjust in regard to the censure it appeared to convey, he hoped the house would not assent to it. The whips now returned to the house jubilant and re joicing. They had done' i their spiriting efficiently and a well, if not gently; for upon a second division the motion of Mr. Seely was negatived by 60 to 33. Mr. H. TRACY inquired whether it was intended by the Government to recommend to the Crown the amalgamation _ _ _ of the civil and military Orders of the Bath ; and moved an address for returns. Lord PALMERSTON replied that such an amalgama tion was not in his opinion desirable, and stated his reasons for coming to that conclusion. The motion for returns was withdrawn. Mr. DILL WYN drew attention to the purchase by tho Government of the Soulages collection for the South Ken sington Museum ; and moved for copies of the correspond- ence and papers relating thereto. Mr. WARNER ridiculed the idea of expending a large sum of money upon a collection which was of the most trumpery and worthless description. Lord ELcHo •approved and Mr. LOCKE questioned the wisdom of the purchase. Mr. POTTER explained that he was one of the persons who had originally bought the collection at Manchester for £14,000, and he considered that the Government had got a great bargain. Mr. H. BRUCE observed that persons of the highest taste and consideration approved of the purchase, which had given a great impetus to the development of the ceramic art in this country. The motion was then withdrawn. THE BALLOT. Mr. H. BERKELEY rose to move that, as a general elec tion is impending, and as we have no law which can put down the intimidation of voters, nor prevent bribery, it is therefore expedient that a trial should be given to the bal lot. The hon. gentleman, who was not very distinctly heard, was understood in the commencement of his observations to refer to Mr. Cobden's declaration in 1852, that ho regarded the ballot as the primary step to all reform. lie then went on to say, that all speeches and all arguments in favour of the ballot were deducible from the arguments of Mr. Grote, delivered many years back—arguments which kept crop ping up upon all occasions, but never so visibly as on the approach• of a general election. Mr. Gladstone, junior, had recently stated that the ballot had received its quietus from the pen of the Rev. Sydney Smith, and again more lately from the pen of Mr. Mill. He did not explain how the ballot could receive more than one quietus. (A laugh.) Now with regard to Sydney Smith, no doubt he had wri ten a sparkling and superficial pamphlet against the ballot, but, so far from thinking that he had given it a quietus, he thus expressed himself in a letter addressed to the late Lady Grey : " I have written a pamphlet against the ballot—very clever, of course—but the ballot will come, write I never so wisely." (Hear.) Then, as to Mr. J. S. Mill, who was the cheral de bataille not only of Mr. Gladstone, junior, but of the Times newspaper, Mr. Mill said: "If I thought the electors of this country were in a state of hopeless and slavish independence upon particular landlords, I should be, as I once was, a supporter of the ballot." That was certainly a slovenly mode of getting out of his former opinion, for he did not touch upon intimidation by cus tomers, intimidation by credit, or upon the frightful power wielded by attorneys, who interfered in the affairs of every person they could come near, and out of their knowledge created a screw which they used in a most Satanic manner. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) if he (Ur. Berkeley) :thought that the upper classes had become politically virtuous, and the electoral classes politically pure, he would not ask the house to give to the electors the protection of the ballot. But he would show them that from 1835 down to the present time the electors had remained in precisely the same condition, or, if any change had taken place, it had been for the worse. The evidence taken before Mr. Grote's committee in 1835 showed what was the state of the constituencies at that time ; and Lord Palmerston, at the nomination at Tiverton, July 25, 1837, said, " My belief, founded not merely on what I have heard from others, but on my own observation, is that a system has been exten sively pursued to deter the electors, by threats of injury to themselves, from electing freely and independently a mem ber to represent them in Parliament." From that period to 1847 the election committees presented a series of evidence which they could not turn away from. In 1848 he first had the honour of becoming the advocate of the ballot in the House of Commons. He was quite aware, however, that the feeling of the houso was against the ballot, but he was not now speaking to the house, but to the people out of doors. From 1848 up to 1862 nothing could be more deci sive than the evidence given before the committees. The modern boroughs were just as bad as the old and impeni tent ones. (Laughter.) There was not, indeed, a pin to choose between Wakefield and Gloucester. Lord Aberdeen had admitted that our electoral system was in such a state of profligacy that every one ought to be ashamed of it. It was clear at that time that something must be done, so a committee was formed of almost all the lawyers in the house, who set their heads to workand produced the Corrupt Prac tices Prevention Bill, which was probably the worst bill that ever was seen. (Laughter.) Then with regard to elec tions which had recently taken place. In East Kent both candidates united in declaring there had been great in timidation on either side ; while at Exeter, both Mr. Cole ridge, the Liberal candidate, and the Tory newspaper testified to the amount of intimidation which bad been practised. At the last-named place a cart was thrown into the river, and a jackass had its tail cut off. (Loud laughter.) The people there, who were insolent, con temptuous, and metaphorical, said that that was not the only donkey that would be served so at the general election. (Renewed laughter.) He submitted he had pointed out evidence to prove that they had not at all improved in their electoral morals, and that they were as bad as ever they were. If this wore so, he wanted to know what had induced Mr. Gladstone, jun., and Mr. Mill to turn short round on the ballot. When both the dominant parties were about to go to the country in what Mr. Dickens described as an auriferous and malty shower of sovereigns and beer, were they satisfied that in timidation should be practised ? Let them look northward and ask why five to four was betted upon Milbank against Merritt. (Laughter.) But the meaning of it was this : The late Duke of Cleveland was a Tory, and the present Duke of Cleveland was a Whig, and every man who sup ported Mr. Merritt for the last election would vote against him at the next, for the voting machines called free and independent voters must do what the Duke of Cleveland wished them to do. Lot them turn next to the southern division of the county of Durham, and ask themselves why it is expected that two Liberals will be returned for it. Simply because it was overshadowed by Baby Castle, and the free and independent electors must vote according to the dictates of their landlord. There was the borough of Ripon ; as long as it was under the influence of Miss Lawrence, it was a refuge for every destitute Tory. (A laugh.) But since it came into the hands of Lord de Grey and Ripon there was not a sounder Whig borough in the country. He believed Lord do Grey and Ripon would be glad to have the ballot introduced into the borough of Ripon. The hon. member next referred:to a speech de livered in 1864 by Mr. Mill, in which he spoke of the de sire of the vulgar rich who made their money by manufac tures and commerce to gain a high social position for themselves by purchasing the votes of electors at any price, and threw back the taunt upon Mr. Mill by saying there was nothing of which the country was more proud than of the men who raised themselves by manufac tures and commerce. He wondered what London, with her Rothschilds, Crawfords, Goschens, and Dukes, would think of Mr. Mill's reproach against the men who made their money by trade and commerce. It was recorded in the journals of the house that the distinguished committee who inquired into the election in Yorkshire, in 1828, reported that the votes of the electors, if they so de sired it, might be taken anonymously. The hon. member quoted the report of that committee to show that they ruled webaci se.enat t nh h ve a ao t , ntvi nso b wt e ge c edwr a ,, u ah s hsi e se a evi man refused to have his name recorded as t socowardly, not th therebye frivolous unmanly, nm invalidated. an y assertion t Thatunconsti tutional. a t s so t he vote e dw r The hon. member next referred to a case which had occurred at Salford of a voter who, acting on the prin ciple that a vote was a trust, put up a notice in his shop window inviting non-electors residing near to come in and inform him whether he was to vote for Garnett or Brother- ton. By the day of the election he found 57 in favour of his voting for Brotherton, and only 23 in favour of Garnett, so he recorded his vote in favour of Brotherton. If that, said the hon. member, was not giving to the noble lord (Palmerston) who held that doctrine—the reductio ad absurdum, he did not know where it was to be found. The man whom the law invested with the duty of voting dis franchised himself and enfranchised men whom the law declared to be unfit to vote. (Hear.) If that argu ment was worth anything, it was only fit for universal suffrage ; for if the non-electors were to dictate to the elec tors, it would be much better to give them votes and let them vote themselves. On the great authority of Grote, " the ballot was the silent defender of liberty." Demos- thanes, addressing an assemby who voted by ballot, said, " Your voting is secret ; you have nothing to fear ; for safety is secured to you by the wisest regulation that your lawgivers ever made." In pressing the house to agree to this resolution he would point out to them that by adopt ing it they would give practical effect to the words of De mosthenes. (Cheers and laughter.). Lord PALMERSTON—The arguments which my hon. friend has used are those which ho has often repeated, and the arguments which I will suggest can only be those which I have often repeated. My hon. frined has said, and has often said before, that nothing new is to be urged against the ballot. Why, nothing new can be put to truth, and when you have urged the strongest argu ments against a proposal, if you are called upon to say anything new you are called upon to use a weaker argu ment than you have used before. My objections to the ballot are comprised in a very short statement. My hon. friend to-night has represented a vote as a function con- SOUTH KENSINGTON ROAD BILL. Mr. H. SEYMOUR moved that the South Kensington Road Bill be re-committed to the former committee, and that they do proceed therewith on Monday next. The I object of the bill was to authorise the construction of a road from Sloane-street to South Kensington through Hans-place. A short discussion arose, during which Mr. SCOUR FIELD said the scheme was promoted by a company who had no claim to it. If such applications were allowed no man's house would be his castle whenever a company got up a little capital for the purpose of turning him out. The motion was ultimately witdrawn. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Col. WHITE a new writ was ordered to issue for the borough of Devonport, in the room of Sir A. Bailer, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. SALMON FISHERY ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. - _ The subject of protection to salmon and salmon fisheries has for years occupied the attention of Parliament, but the discussions in the house have generally been dull and un interesting. The proceedings to-day were no exception to the rule. There were about 30 members present, and the endeavours of nearly all the members was to make the law more stringent against salmon poachers, and the different illegal modes in which the fish was captured. The various clauses of the bill were adopted with a few verbal amendments, and at four o'clock the sitting of the house was suspended. At six o'clock the house resumed, and Mr. DODSON re- Ported progress in the Salmon Fishery Act committee. Mr. LAYARD stated, in reply to Mr. HADFIELD, that the British consular officers had either been replaced, or continued were they had not left, at the following ports on seaboardthe of th e S ou thern States of North America— n IY, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Galveston, and Mobile. Mr' CAi tIMELL, replying to a question of Mr. A Mita, announced that the conferences between the Go vernment and the Canad i_na commissioners had terminated that day, and th at on M papers e x Plaining the result upon next he should lay the upon the table of the house. SUPPLY —THE DOCKYARDS. On the order for going into committee of supply, Mr. SEELY moved to resolve appointing at it was inexpedient to continue the practice of naval officers, who were not possessed of a technical knowledge of the busi ness carried on in her Majesty's dockyards, o t i o the offices of superintendents thereof, and the practice limiting their tenure of office to a period of five years. Mr. WillTE having seconded the motion, Lord C. PAGET defended the existing system of dock yard management. He contended that irrespective of the question of expense, the country ought to be independent of private shipbuilders, and that the maintenance of p u bli c naval yards was a security for the quality of =aerials and wor kmanship. With regard to taking the management of these yards out of the hands of naval officers, if he turned to see what was done in France and America he found that in both countries naval officers were at the head of the shipbuilding departments; and even in this country not less than four of the principal private yards were under the management of naval officers. In the ease of a purely building yard there were no doubt many arg uments in favourof a civilian management; but as regarded fitting out much yard s uc the appointment of a civil manager would lead vo t o no d t is i r lo isfactlon in the country, because the work well done, widlit great additional cost bu LONDON, SATURDAY PAIiA t ING, JUNE 17, 1865. fided to the elector for the benefit of the rest of the commu• (" No," from Mr. BERKELEY.) Very good; then my hon. friend maintains that the ♦ote is a personal right, which the individual holding it is entitled to exercise free from any consequences. If the vote is a personal vote, upon what ground does my hon. friend punish a man for taking money for his vote ? If a man has a personal right, he is entitled to exercise it from pecuniary or whatever other motives that he pleases. The moment you narrow a vote by describing it as a personal right, you cut away the ground upon which you can rest the right to punish a man. (Cheers.) But I deny that a vote is a personal right. A vote is a trust. Even if universal suffrage were adopted, a vote would still be a trust which an individual would have confided to him for the benefit of the nation of which he is a member. (Hear.) I say, then, that not only by the English constitution, but by the common sense of man kind, the man who holds a trust for the benefit of others is bound to manifest to the world, and to those for whom the trust is held, the manner in which that trust is performed. Therefore the ballot, the object of which is to screen the trustee from all consequences as to the manner in which he may perform his trust, is contrary not only to the principles of the British constitution, but contrary to common sense, and contrary to the very nature of things themselves. (Hear.) But then my honourable friend thinks that the ballot would exempt a voter from those influences from which mankind never can be free. He has given us ex amples of places and countries where territorial possession has varied, and with the varying of that possession he says you vary the political action of those who have votes in those places. My hon. friend wants to alter the course of human events. A man must be influenced by feelings of some sort or other, and it is natural that there should be harmony between the possessors of land and those who hold under them. Such relations will continue, whether it be the influence of territorial possessions, of mercantile wealth, or of commercial engagements; for you cannot divest mankind of an influence which is inherent in their nature. I contend that it is a perfect fallacy to say that secrecy to the voter would be beneficial. If vote by ballot existed, the man who wished to influence the voter would ask him to promise his vote, and he would understand what a refusal meant. If my hon. friend thinks such a promise would be a fallacy, and that no man could trust to it, he pronounced the strongest condemnation upon the voter, because he declares that in his opinion they were men whose opinions could•not be relied upon—that they would pro mise one thing to-day and do a different thing to-morrow. Ido not believe that. If a voter would not promise a vote when asked, he would be exposed to the same consequences as if ho voted openly. I think, therefore, that the ballot would be inconsistent with the principles on which human society is constituted, and is at variance with the principles and practice of the British constitution, demoralising in its effect, and calculated to lower the character of the British voter ; and, therefore, I must again oppose the motion of my hon. friend. (Cheers.) The house divided — For the resolution 74 Against it Majority The house then passed to the orders of the day, and The Fortification (Provision for Expenses) Bill and the Harbours Transfer Bill were severally read a second time. The report on the navy and army expenditure (1863-4) was brought up and agreed to ; as was also the report on the Colonial Docks Loans Bill. The Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Bill, and the Navy and Marines (Properties of Deceased) Bill were read a third time. The Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No 2) Bill, and the Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 3) Bill passed through committee. TURNPIKE ACTS. Mr. BARING obtained leave to bring in bill to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain ; also a bill relating to turnpike trusts arrangements. The bills for which leave had been obtained were read a first time. The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. - 4 -- WESTMINSTER. The following correspondence has passed between the Attorney. General and Mr. Mill's Committee for Westminster : " Lincoln's-inn, June 16. " Sir,—l perceive that my name is in the published list of Mr. Mill's Committee for Westminster. As I have never authorised, or intended to authorise, any such use of it (in deed I am not aware that I have ever, even in private, said anything from which any person could be likely to infer that I should be willing to do so), I must request:that it may be immediately withdrawn, and I shall esteem it a favour if you will inform me by what authority it has been so made use of. "I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, ac ROUNDELL PALMEIt. " The Chairman of Mr. Mill's Committee, 9a, Bridge-street, Westminster." "John Stuart Mill's Committee Rooms, 9a, Bridge-st., Westminster, June 16. " Sir,— I have caused inquiry to be made respecting the placing of your name on the committee, and regret to find that it was done through the inadvertence of one of the clerks employed in the arrangements for the election. A return was received signed R. Palmer,' which the clerk entered on the committee list as Palmer, R., Esq., 11, New square, Lincoln's-inn,' that being the first R. Palmer he found on the register, This, I suppose, is how it was done, as the clerk who then had charge of the book has since left the employ of the committee. Another gentleman employed hero, seeing the address so entered, and knowing that the place named was your address, altered Palmer, R., Esq.,' into the form in which it has since stood, never for one moment doubting that authority bad been given for the publication of the name. It has been the earnest wish of Mr. Mill's committee that no name should appear without the consent of the party, and I have therefore thus fully explained the way in which this mistake has occurred. We have not had more than five or six mistakes in a list of 600 names. "I trust that you will deem this explanation satisfactory, and have ordered fresh lists to be printed with your name omitted, one of which shall be forwarded to you. " Apologizing for the trouble that has been given you, and for the annoyance of having your name thus published, "I am your obedient servant, "JAMES BEAL, lion. Sec. " Ile Right lion. Sir R. Palmer." WEST RIDECG OF YORKSHIRE. The Central Conservative Committee held a meet ing at Wakefield yesterday to decide who shall be the candidates in the Conservative interest for the southern division of the Riding at the ensuing elec tion. The Right Hon. J. S. Wortley, having on the score of ill health felt it necessary to decline to enter on a contest, it was determined to request Mr. Walter Spencer Stanhope and Mr. Christopher Beckett Denison to become candidates, and their acceptance of the invitation was communicated to the meeting. Nothing has yet been made public as to the Liberal party, but it is expected that Sir J. W. Ramsden, who is at present one of the represen tatives for the %Vest Riding, will offer himself for the southern division, and that the Liberals will bring forward another gentleman as his colleague. Sir J. S. Stucley has -issued an address to the electors of this borough, announcing his intention to become a candidate at the next election. Mr. Howell Gwynn, of Dyffryn-house, Neath, has.also issued an address. Both gentlemen profess Con servative principles, the former having the ad vantage of residing in the neighbourhood. On the Liberal side Col. Davie, the present member, will solicit re-election ; but there appears to be a split in the Liberal party in consequence of some mem bers wishing to have another candidate, and pre ferring Mr. Lloyd, who contested the borough with Mr. Bremridge not long ago. BATH. The Liberals are not disposed to allow the Con servatives to retain, without a struggle, the seat which they wrested from them in 1859, when Mr. Way was returned with Mr. Tite, Mr. Ph inn, Q. C., the second Liberal candidate, being defeated. alb 3r a severe fight. The Liberal Association have pre pared a requisition to Col. Pinney, the prek ;ent member for Lime Regis, inviting him to contest the borough in conjunction with Mr. Tite, the pres, 3nt Liberal member. Col. Pinney is at tne head of :the 2d Somerset Militia, the headquarters of which are in Bath, and the gallant colonel is consequently well known here. He also some time since repres Kited, East Somerset in Parliament. Mr. Way b aving long since expressed his intention not to stand again in consequence of bad health, the Conservatives brought forward Lieut.-Col. Hogg, son of Sir .Taint Weir Hogg. He has been actively canvasging ti le constituency during the past few weeks. ASIIBURTON. Mr. J. H. Astell, the Conservative member for this borough, has issued an address to the electors, soliciting re-election. DEVONPORT. Mr. Ferrand arrived at Devonport last night, and briefly addressed the electors. Mr. Brassey, con tractor, has addressed the Liberal electors. The writ will be received here to-day, and in the even ing Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Fleming will address the Conservative electors, and Mr. Phinn the Liberals. The nomination will take place on Wednesday neat. ESSEX (SOUTH). No third candidate has appeared in this consti tuency, and it is now anticipated that Mr. R. B. Baker (Liberal) and Mr. H. J. Selwin (Conservative) will be returned without a contest. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The present members of both divisions of this county—viz., Mr. Rolt, Q.C., Conservative, and Col. Kingscote, Liberal (West Gloucestershire) ; and Sir M. H. Beach and Mr. Holford (East Gloucester shire), will again offer themselves. They will, it is expected, be returned unopposed. GLOUCESTER (CITY). The Hon. C. Berkeley and Mr. J. J. Powell, Q.C., the present members for the city of Gloucester, will retire in favour of Mr. C. J. Monk, Chancellor of the diocese, and son of the late Bishop Monk, and Mr. W. P. Price, both of whom were unseated for bribery. They will be opposed by Mr. Kinnaird, banker, of London, who has agreed to become the candidate in the Conservative interest. A sharp contest is anticipated. GREENWICH. Sir Charles Bright is actively engaged in prose cuting a canvass of the electors, and has met with a most favourable reception. He has now obtained an additional encouragement to proceed by the an nouncement that Sir J. V. Shelley has resolved to decline the contest. Sir Charles Bright has held various meetings and has issued an address. LANCASTER. We are requested to state that the paragraph which appeared in The Sun of yesterday gives an inaccurate account of what took place at the meeting of Wednesday. Although the meeting was called by Mr. Lawrence's party, there was a considerable ma jority of hands held up against him. LINCOLN. Mr. C. Seely seeks re-election. The electors, he says, may rest assured that his energies and votes will be devoted to giving practical effect to those Liberal principles which tend to uphold and increase the greatness and prosperity of the country. PERTH. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird has issued the follow ing address : " The very long period during which I havo had honour of being your representative has served to make you fully acquainted with my political opinions. These opinions, I am happy to feel, are generally in unison with your own, and have on several occasions been marked with your ap probation ; and during the period that has elapsed since you first returned me toraxliament experience has only confirmed my original convictions, that a wide basis of representation is the best securityfor the liberties of the country, and that a policy of progress is the only one adapted to the increasing intelligence of the people. I think it unnecessary, on the present occasion, to enter into any lengthened statement of my views, but I may be permitted to express the gratifica- tion with which I have given a very general support to her Majesty's Ministers during the present Parliament. I claim to exercise my own judgment and to act indepen dently ; but and Government which maintains peace on the one hand, while it upholds the just influence of the country on the other, and, while amply providing for the defences of the empire, is able, by wise management of the national resources, to remit taxation to the extent of several millions, is deserving of support—and this, it will be admitted, Lord Palmerston's Government has done. Again, the course that the Government has pursued in reference to the unhappy war in America has also had my general concurrence, and the neutrality which has been maintained has preserved to us the blessing of unbroken peace. The growing prosperity of the coun try is matter for much thankfulness, and that prosperity I believe to be mainly Owing to the action of those wise and liberal measures initiated by the party now in office. I thank you for the confidence that you have for so many years reposed in me ; and should you again return me to Parliament as your representative, you may rely on my continued and most careful attention to the interests of your city." SHEFFIELD. A candidate to oppose Mr. Roebuck has appeared in the person of Mr. John Webb Probyn, and on Wednesday night he addressed a meeting of electors and non-electors. Mr. Probyn is supported by Mr. Isaac Ironside, who has attained to a local noto riety as the chairman of the Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee, and by his denunciations of Garibaldi and laudations of King Bomba. The other persons who took a prominent part were mostly from the ranks of the teetotallers and the advocates of the Permissive Bill. Mr. Probyn said there was a deep seated dissatisfaction among the Liberal party with the conduct of Mr. Roebuck, and it was in conse quence of that feeling he had ventured to take the advice of some friends in London and come before the constituency. He would support the bills brought in by Mr. Locke King and Mr. Baines, and suffrage, vote by wouldbal lo, redistribution al so supp or t ofa lodging seats, abolition of church rates, tenderness towards the native races in our colonies, non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries, &c. The meeting, which consisted of about 200 persons, pledged itself to support Mr. Probyn. The candidate declared himself opposed to abstinence by compulsion, but in favour of local self-government, by means of town-councils, in re gard to the licensing system. It was resolved to call upon the electors to sign a requisition to Mr. Probyn, and upon the Mayor to convene a public meeting to hear an address from him. SOMERSET (EAST). There is no probability:of a contest in the eastern divirion of the county. The present members, Sir William Miles and Mr. W. F. Knatchbull, both de cline to be again put in nomination. The candi dates for the seats are Mr. Ralph Neville Grenville, of Butleigh-court, Glastonbury, who formerly re presented Windsor, and Mr. Richard Horner Paget, of Cranmore-hall. Sir Henry Hoare, the Liberal candidate, having found that there was no prospect of his success, retired from the contest some two months since. STAMFORD. Lord Cranbourne and Sir S. Northcote have both issued addresses. Lord Cranbourne considers that the Opposition has been successful in resisting mea sures calculated to impair the stability of our in stitutions in Church and State. The course of foreign affairs has, however, in the opinion of his lordship, been less satisfactory. He says :—" I hope that whatever Government may be in power will have learnt from recent events to limit the ac tivity of the Foreign-office strictly to those cases in which the interest or honour of England call for its interference. . . . In respect to domestic policy I shall continue to resist all proposals which seem likely to lead to any fundamental change in the Constitution." Sir Stafford Northcote considers that the doctrine of non-intervention in the domestic concerns of foreign States has now become an established rule of foreign policy. Upon domestic matters, Sir Stafford says that it would be unjust to deny that the measures of the present Chancellor 1 of the Exchequer have been upon the whole very successful. He considers it the duty of an indepen dent member of Parliament to criticise closely the financial proposals of a Minister, but he shall always be ready to co-operate to the best of his power in the promotion of fiscal reforms conceived in a wir:se and liberal spirit. Upon the subject of Par lir.i.mentary Reform Sir Stafford considers it matter r for congratulation that the opinion of the public has been decidedly pronounced against a mere reduction of the franchise unaccompanied by other measures required to preserve the balance of the Constitution. STOKE-ON-TRENT. There are four candidates in the field for the re presentation of this borough—Mr. H. R. Grenfell, the present Liberal member; Mr. A. J.B. Beresford Hope, who comes forward as the successor of Mr. Alderman Copeland, the present Conservative mem ber, who will retire at the dissolution of Parliament; Mr. Samuel Pope, barrister, of Manchester, an ultra- Liberal, who contested the borough in 1859, and has been before the constituency on two other occ,a fdons ; and Mr. George Melly, merchant, of Liver pool, a Liberal of advanced views, who will be brought forward as Mr. Grenfell's colleague. A severe contest is anticipated, and the friends of each candidate are actively preparing for a trial of their strength, There is a considerable majority of Liberal electors on the register, and but for the presence of a third Liberal candidate there would be no doubt of the return of Messrs. Grenfell and Melly, wh3 are brought forward by a most powerful party. Mr: Pope is, however, considered to have been ill-used by this party by a good number of the Liberal elec tors, very many of whom have promised him their support, and a coalition withthe Conservative party, who need some extraneous aid to enable them to return their candidate has placed Mr. Pope in avert' good position. The general feeling, however, ap pears to be that Messrs. Grenfell and Hope will be the successful candidates. WARWICK. Mr. Repton issued an address yesterday afternoon offering himself for re-election. He says : " I think that the true principle of representative Govern ment is, that every interest should be duly represented ; but any system of representation based on the principle of re presenting numbers is inconsistent with true liberty. Recent events in America have confirmed that opinion. But at the same time, any proposal for admitting the more intelligent members of the working classes to the privilege of the franchise shall be honestly considered by me." Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, June 12.—Since writing on the 6th inst. there has been no movements of vessels belonging to the squadron further than the return into port of the flagship Victoria and ironclad Royal Oak,which had gone out for a few days' exercise. As the hot weather is approaching buoys are being laid down in Bighi Bay for the larger ships, to give them the benefit of the fresh air. The Resistance has been taken into dock, and the crew have been temporarily transferred to the receiving-ship Hibernia. Capt. W. C. Chamberlain has left for Marseilles on two months' sick leave. Major D. Hill and Mrs. Hill left by the same steamer. Brigade-Major Swan and family have also left Malta for England. Sub- Lieut. H. S. Hutchings, of the Victoria, has been promoted to k)e Acting-Lieut. of that ship, vice H. L. Perceval, promoted. A telegram has been re ceived from England announcing the promotion of Lieut. R. Stern, commanding the Psyche, to the rank of commander. It is reported that the squad ron will proceed for a summer cruise after arrival of the Caledonia (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), which was expected to leave England for Malta on the 15th inst. Lieut. thellon. E. G. Dawson, R.N., of the Royal Oak, and SirW. Smith, K.C.8., returned from Italy on Tuesday. The annual dinner of the 85th (King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment took place last evening at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's. Lieut.- Gen. Maunsell was in the chair. The Chaplain- General (the Rev. G. R. Gleig, M.A.) was among the company. The officers present included Major- Gen. Brook Taylor, Major-Gen. H. Trench, Sir H. Edwardes, Sir Nelson Pycroft, Col. Grey, Lieut.- Col. Maunsell, Lieut.-Col. Williamson, Lieut.-Col. Warde, Major Blackhall, Major Knox, Major Thompson, Capt. J. Watts, Capt. the Hon. E. Boyie, Capt. Galbraith, Capt. Rooper, Capt. Taylor, Mr. Hamilton Aide, Dr. Bartley, Mr. Gould, Mr. Illingworth, Mr. B. G. Maunsell, Mr. Dutton, &c. The officers of the 4th (the Queen's Own) Hussars dined together last evening at Willis's-rooms, King street, St. James's. Covers were laid for 24. Col. Brown was in the chair. There were among the officers present :—Lord de Ros, Sir Alexander Gordon Cumming, Col. Low, Col. Portal, Col. Fane, Major Browne, Major Everard Hutton, Captain Harrison, Capt. Gifford, Capt. King, Capt. Sergison, Capt. de Capel Brooke, Dr. Hunter, Mr. Nevinson, Mr. Frederick Simpson, Mr. Joliffe, Mr. Frank Hodgkirison, &c. Dr. Alexander Nisbet (Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets) is to receive the good-service pension, vacant by the decease of Sir J. Richardson. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander Molesworth G. Jackson, to the Octavia ; Commander E. S. Adeane, to the Arethusa ; Lieut C. J. Kent, to the Sutlej ; and Lieut. J. G. Jones, to the Duncan. Lord Amberley's Travels in the Levant. s --- -- The following " Correspondence respecting pas sages in the Greek Waters on board her Majesty's ships Liffey and Phoebe in the year 1863" was pub lished yesterday : " No. 1. " THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY TO MR. lIAMMOND.--(ReCeiTed June 11.) " Admiralty, June 11, 1863. " Sir, —The persons named on the other side hereof, having been entertained on board her Majesty's ship Liffey on the occasions and between the dates stated against their names, I am comwanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request that you will move Earl Russell to cause me to be informed whether the expense of the entertainment is to be borne by the public.—l am, &c., " C. PAGET." Inclosure in No. 1. "List of passengers entertained on board her Majesty's ship Liffey : " The Hon. H. E. Elliot, her Majesty's Minister, passage from the Pincus to Kalamaki, from April 9, 1863, to April 10, 1863, inclusive. " Lord Amberley, private secretary, passage from the Pincus to Kalamaki, from April 9, 1863, to April 10, 1863, inclusive. " Mr. Geo. L. Conyngham, secretary, passage from the Piraeus to Kalamaki, from April 8, 1863, to April 10, 1863, inclusive. " Admiralty, June 11, 1863. " No. 2. " THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY TO MR. HAMMOND (Received June 12.) " Admiralty, June 12, 1863. " Sir,—The persons named on the other side hereof having been entertained on board her Majesty's ship Phoebe on the occasions and between the dates stated against their names, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty to request that you will move earl Russell to cause me to be informed whether the expenses of the entertain. ment is to be borne by the public.—l am, &c., " C. IL PENNELL, pro Sec." " Inclosure in No. 2. " List of passengers entertained on board her Majesty's ship Phoebe : " The Hon. H.:Elliot, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, passage from Corinth to Ancona, from April 10, 1863, to April 15, 1863, inclusive; entertained at the table of the captain. Viscount Amberley, Attache, passage from Corinth to Ancona from April 10, 1863, to April 15, 1863, inclusive ; entertained at the table of the captain. "Mr. George L. Conyngham, secretary, passage from Corinth to Ancona from April 10, 1863, to April 15, 1863, inclusive ; entertained at the table of the captain. "Admiralty, June 12, 1863." " No. 3. "MR. HAMMOND TO THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY. "Foreign-office, June 13, 1863 " Sir,—ln reply to your letters of the 11th and 12th inst., I am directed by Earl Russell to acquaint you, for the in formation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that his lordship is of opinion that the expenses incurred for the entertainment of Mr. Elliot and suite on board her Majesty's ship Phcebo and Liffey should be borne by the public.—l am, &c. " E. JIAIDIORD." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Last night in the House of Commons it was moved that a new writ should be issued for De- vonport in the room of Sir Arthur Buller, who has resigned his seat. A little consideration must sug gest that this is a very anomalous proceeding. The present Parliament now counts its existence almost by days, and it was, therefore, but waiting three or four weeks, and Devonport and Sir Arthur Buller might have had all the opportunities that are to be derived from his resignation. Moreover, the appa rent uselessness of the proceeding is not its most unsatisfactory aspect. The member who is returned for Devonport will be only returned for the remain ing three weeks of the expiring Parliament. At the end of that barren time the seat will again be vacant, and Devonport will again have to go through at least the form, and, it may be, the struggle, of an election. In short, the result to Devonport is sim ply that it will have to pass through two elections instead of one without any corresponding advan tage. The resignation of a member at the present moment can, in fact, be of no benefit to himself, and must inflict an unnecessary expense and trouble upon his constituency. The fault, however, of the present proceeding is in no way chargeable to Sir Arthur Buller, and Devonport may lay its just com plaint elsewhere. The matter, in truth, involves a somewhat unpleasant episode, for the occurrence of which we feel much regret, but upon which, since it has occurred, we are compelled to express a candid opinion. The motion of last night, then, is but the sequel to a similar motion on the preceding night. On Thursday it was moved that a - new writ should be issued for Liskeard, in the room of Mr. Bernal Osborne, who ha,d resigned his seat. The cause of _ , w _ this resignation as explained in an address by Mr. Osborne to his recent constituents, which was pub .. _ . lished in our impression of Thursday. From that it appears there was a movement among the electors of Liskeard in favour of another representative. The favoured candidate is Sir Arthur Buller, the brother of the late Mr. Charles Buller, formerly the special pride of the electors of Liskeard. The seat of Liskeard, therefore, being vacated _ _ by Mr. Osborne's resignation, Sir Arthur had no choice but to present himself at once if he wished to take advantage of the favourable disposition of the electors. But in order to do this it was, of course, necessary to resign the seat he already held, and Devonport accordingly, and the representative who will take Sir Arthur Buller's seat, are unavoidably punished in the manner we have described. Sir Arthur Buller, therefore, is innocent in the matter, and the responsibility must be laid• at the door- of Mr. Osborne. ' That gentleman, it will be observed, has inflicted upon two constituencies the trouble and expense of a double election, and we are also com pelled to conclude that he has done this deliberately and with full knowledge that he was thus subject ing both his own and another constituency to the same inconvenience. As he speaks in his address of another candidate having been provided for the bo rough he deserts, it is impossible to suppose that he was ignorant who that candidate was, and that the consequences' which have ensued were inevitable. It will be plain that nothing but reasons so strong as to be almost compulsory could justify a proceeding so apparently inconsiderate and inopportune. Un happily no such reasons are forthcoming. Mr. Osborne's address to his constituents contains, we may presume, the best justification he is able to offer for the step he has taken ; and from this point of view it is extremely unsatisfactory. The contents of the address may be very shortly summed up. Mr. Osborne's constituents are not altogether satisfied with his regent attitude in Parliament, particularly with his bitter opposition to Lord Palmerstv, and some of them have resolved to oppose him at the next election. "In this dilemma," he has been counselled by some of his " late friends" to resign his seat, and, "accordingly, as it does not suit his idea of a representative to be a Treasury depen dent or provincial delegate, he has adopted their suggestion." It is plain that this explanation has nothing whatever to do with the peculiar man ner of resignation which Mr. Osborne has adopted. If he were well informed that the electors of Liskeard were so much dissatisfied with him that he would stand no reasonable chance in the ensuing election, prudence would, no doubt, dictate that he should decline the contest, and his " late friends" may have really been friendly in ad vising him to resign. But it is evident that every purpose contemplated in such a proceeding would be equally attained by waiting three weeks longer, un til the dissolution of Parliament, and then wishing the electors farewell. Nothing is accomplished by the present course but the inffiction of a great an noyance on Mr. Osborne's " late friends," and on another unoffending constituency. He has not even gained any advantage from this step for himself, but, if anything, the reverse. He has not only pre maturely placed himself in the position of a candi date wanting a constituency, but he has also" shown a want of consideration for his late constituents which will prejudice his favourable introduction to a new connexion. However unreasonably, in fact, Mr. Osborne's constituents might have acted, it would have been alike unwise and ungenerous to retaliate upon them by this mode of annoyance. But Mr. Osborne fails in making out any such case of caprice against his late constituency, Certainly, if the electors of Liskeard returned him under the impression that he would give a general support to Lord Palmerston's Government, they have good reason to be disappointed. He has opposed the Government with as much pertinacity and vigour as a Liberal member with a sharp and witty tongue could well display ; and his personal opposition to the Premier has frequently transgressed the limits which might be expected from a former member of his Administration. No Tory has said such bitter things of the Ministry as Mr. Osborne. Yet, in spite of this, Mr. Osborne has, by his own confes sion, been _pretty easy in his seat until lately, and has represented Liskeard since 1859. Mr. Os borne's sneer, therefore, at the notion of being " a Treasury dependent or provincial delegate" is somewhat out of place. The electors of Liskeard have acquired an honourable reputation among constituencies, and they cannot be considered false to their character or unusually hard upon Mr. Osborne. But even supposing them to have been somewhat unreasonable, they have certainly done nothing to justify Mr. Osborne's unceremonious treatment of them. Constituencies, like human creatures, no doubt, have their whims from time to time, but it is better tomeet all such errors in a con ciliatory spirit, and to be as slow to take offence as to give it. Mr. Osborne takes great credit to him self for having acted in the character of an " inde .pendent" supporter of Liberal principles. Why could he not have completed the part by a frank declaration to his constituents that he had been com pelled by his convictions to take a course of his own, though somewhat opposed, as is proved, to their wishes ? Though constituencies do not send " de legates," they cannot be expected under ordinary circumstances to send representatives who barely represent them ; and nothing can be expected to induce them to do this but a personal regard for a candidate and personal confidence in the general tendency of his political opinions. This is the tie between Mr. Roebuck and the electors of Sheffield, and Mr. Osborne might have been opportunely in structed by the recent scene in that borough. If he had shown similar frankness and good feeling, he would at the worst have parted pleasantly with his constituents, and would have come before any other constituency with a more graceful plea. HERALD.—We are so accustomed to complaints about everything which concerns the Board of Ad miralty, that the remark that its administration is about as bad as it is possible to conceive may ex cite little attention, because regarded as a tiresome truism. There is something so wonderfully tenacious in the whole vicious system of blunder ing and costly mismanagement, it has become so consecrated and fenced about by time and usage, its history is involved in such a maze of conflicting statements, and half intelligible blue books, that the man who would master it has to sweep out such an Augean stable of ill-arranged figures, its bulwarks are defended by such an army of arrogant officials, assailants are baffled by such complicated bastions and counterscarps of cir cumlocution, that we need not wonder that so many have recoiled from the task with dismay. Many a stalwart champion has couched his lance against the doughty old fabric, which has, nevertheless, survived so many and such rude shocks from foes on all sides that her defenders are disposed to wax almost insolent in their defiance. To speak plainly, the faults in the Admiralty administration are so many and so flagrant that everybody who is not directly concerned in excusing them must hope to see rectified ; but so long as the country consents to be governed by the self-opinionated chiefs of an impracticable bureaucracy we are convinced that they will continue to set their faces against any reform. Mr. Seely, in his able speech last night on the management of the dockyards, struck the key note of the business when he hinted that it might be left to the Conservatives to carry out the change which he considered imperatively necessary. The Liberal party are always talking of " R Reform," as if it were their private property. If it implies the degradation of the suffrage and vote by ballot, we may leave it to them. If by that much-abused word we are to understand the more practical and beneficent work of reform in the administration of the country, reform in finance and taxation, reform in law, reform in the education and in the system of housing the poor, then these are tasks which must be left to the Conservatives, for the Whigs are but bogglers at them. They but repeat the shibboleth of progress, without knowledge of its meaning. As we spend annually more money on our navy than any other great power, not even ex- cepting the Americans in the height of their civil war, we may reasonably require from our Govern ment that we should have in return the most power ful armament afloat. We maygo farther than this, and regard it as an axiom that it is essential to the maintenance of England in her supremacy on the ocean that her navy singly should be a match for all the navies in the world. How far this is from being the case at this moment it were both needless and distresssing to point. Every oneknows that in iron clads we are absolutely outdone by France and the United States, so that in a general war we should be placed in the greatest peril by our inferiority of strength. We are far from having what we have a right to demand from our Government—a great navy in return for an immense outlay. The cause of this it is not difficult to find in the woful misma nagement of every department of our naval adminis tration. Mr. Seely selected one blot from many as the mark of his just animadversion last night. To whom, he asked, do we commit the control of our dockyards, the establishments which turn out yearly those mighty three-deckers, those ironside monsters of the deep, those swift corvettes, those gun boats sloops, and steamers— " The armaments that thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, making nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals ?" We give it to naval officers, men who, however eminent in their profession, however skilful in navigating or fighting these ships, have no tech; nical knowledge of the method of building and fitting them. It is answered that naval men are also employed in private yards. The two or three so employed are, however, noted for their scientific knowledge and practical experience. Under each dockyard superintendent is a controller, upon whom the direction of the work in great part falls. Ill' stead of paying these officials in such a manner as to command the services of the best of their class/ the Admiralty give them scarcely one-third of the salary which is paid to a man holding a simila r position in a private yard. Under this system everything is done in a routine style, money is "" pended in the most wasteful and absurd manner/. and there is no room for the improvements whic ll _, are suggested continually by scientific experience and discovery. All suggestions of such improvemen ts come from the workmen. "If a man in the Royal dockyards," says Mr. Seely, " thought certain work could be executed more cheaply, he went to the foreman, the foreman had to go to the master ship wright, the master shipwright had to communicate with the superintendent, the superintendent had to communicate, with Somerset House, Somerset House had to communicate with Whitehall ; 9 ,11 a, then, after coniiderable delay, the matter wee" back to Somerset House, and downward, unless the communication happened to be lost by the way." The details of the waste in p ublie money in the dockyards are so absurd that they seem almost incredible. Thus, a boat or a forgil costs twice as much at one dockyard as it does a another. To make ingot into sheet lead the Govern ment spend 2s. 6d. per cwt., in the open market it costs only 3d. per cwt. Anchors and chain ca bles bought from a private firm in the employ of the Government cost twice as much as they would COe t a private shipbuilder, making a loss to the count* in anchors alone, of £20,000 a year. To these de tails of petty extravagance we have to add the croval ing fact that instead of two millions a year the ship building in the Royal dockyards costs us in realiq very nearly three millions a year, the GovernmeL l " having included under other heads ' in the estiraawj the salaries, pensions, and many other heavy ite ° 4 besides making no account of the interest on plant,which would be reckoned by any private fir" The result is that the ships built for us by GoverT ment cost half as much again, or even twice as mud' as they would have cost if built by any private fib. d Six vessels mentioned by Mr. Seely cost in sixy e in repairs only more than they should have c ost built de novo. If we put two millions or thr e t : millions a year into the hands of public serva ci for certain purposes, we should at least, he sal ; have practical men to disburse it, instead a s. captains, who know little or nothing of the blisl; ness. As it is, we are deliberately throwing sw a t money in the dockyards, at the rate, on the lowee s calculation, of one million a year. A mfili° ll , 6 year ! What could we do—what, rather, could ." 0 not do with a million a year ? We could pene, l° off and rescue from misery ten thousand person a artists, authors, inventors, widows, or orphans. or could build a hundred magnificent hospitals charitable asylums. We could open a hundr, l l parks for the recreation of the masses. We CO B buy up all the heaths round London that our p ee Lt might breathe. We could furnish museums Or., would make London the !cynosure of the world ; works of art that would cast Dresden and Muole: into the shade. We could raze down an ugly C and rebuild it of marble. We could build th° l ,, sands of houses for the poor, who are huddled , bestial dens by our " metropolitan improvements' ra What could we not do with a million a year ? 1 1 ‘ ; need not ask. Thanks to Lord Clarence Paget , „,`" the venerable Premier, to the obstinate doctrina irN and placemen who rally round them, to the ene r c i getic " whips" who collected them from club ae coffee-house to save their country and their pars we must go on pitching it into our docks, and lea these things undone. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. The corn market to-day is inactive. The sale s area i; fined to small consumptive operations, and prices rem w eir. about the same as last week, the reduction in the s vE counteracting to some extent the usual depressing eff e ct ; most seasonable weather. To-day's market was very see d few transactions are reported, and where sales were PI" a slight decline was conceded. DERBY—FRIDAY. 1 46 New white wheat, 44s to 47s ; new red, 40s to 43s 1 3 ° 14 4, stone. Barley for malting, 32s to 35s per qr. • 0%550 28s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 25s ; 28s per 24 atone. Beans, old, 42s to 455; new , 3813 to per qr. S TAMP ORD.—FRIDAY. es' 36 Pe New white wheat, 42s to 465; new red,r39s to 430 r 305 stone. Barley, malting, 32s to 33s ; grinding, 28s t c : 0 0. per qr. Oats, new, 22s to 28s; old, —s to —s per 24 s' Beans, 36s to 40s per 38 stone. Peas as heretofore. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. is la fa A small supply of fresh wheat, which he ea t fliti leo • prices ; 'business proceeds slowly. Other sorts log Spring corn unaltered. A . Averages, June 21 :—Wheat, 559 qrs, at 480 or ley, 82, at 26s Od ; oats, 209, at 24s 11d. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. r 3 6 New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; new red, 380 to 415. Yogi stone. Barley for malting, 32s to 34s per log ; g rill Os t ° 27s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, 22s to 255. Beans' 46s per qr. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. - per The market is dull, and prices have declined full," d to cwt. The sales have been very small, and CO West India on the spot. Refined sugar sells slo wly decline. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market,. $. 9 s. d. 1.6 g Walls End Haswell 17 6 Hastings Hartley .•••" 13 6 Carway and Duffryn Tanfield Moor .....••' 16 Malting 22 0 Holywell Main ......... io uo Hetton l7 6 Tunstall . . .. . ...... :. • 0 Walker Primrose l3 0 Northumberl'd 31ali'' 16 West Hartley Wylam l6 0 Ships at market, 33; sold, 31. rttanto 11, [i c i . DITERTISENENT.]—HoIIoway's e ,t Sic —Though the mind be downcast, and the t o o g feebled by continued indisposition, the sufferer 0 this season make a last effort to regain health by 000,,i, Holloway's purifying pills, which, by leansing y - tO will search out the hidden cause of mischief, an u eg dtice'v seeds of most diseases. No invalid is too much r e d il d'O t o undergo this very gentle treatment with safety 011 , io itti tage. Neither youth nor old ago need fear i ns , Tr,y the system from a regulated course of these lfis,o:tcl are infallible in stomach complaints, bilious affeetle"e, ness, want of appetite, disordered bowels, constiPsit`i pf the annoyances which spring from derange l:ae digesting and assimilating organs. 0 1 CAMPBELL.—On the 12th B in ir s t t. h , at s Sutton Cou r, if 130' vr ref° . the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward CaraP be " .l e of a son. W e lIEWLETT.—On the 14th inet., at Oatlands-PEms., (/' bridge, Surrey, the wife of H. G. Hew lett, daughter. ar° sye por NArran..—On the 9th inst., at 54, Green-street, '.."- square, the Hon. Mrs. Wm. Napier, of a son' Marriages ivina bleal HARVEY—DOVETON.—On the 15th inst., at ""; ..ic0 , .4 John William Henry Harvey, Esq., of Lincoln , 000 ,, Grace Emma, second daughter of Lieut.-Colono f „ le o Doveton, late 11.E.1.C.5. ell 1 70 4 LEITH—GORDON.—On the 14th inst., at Shorew, - t 'inx,p., Wight, Colonel R. W. Disney Leih, 106th Li.gr, Icy° e. second son of the fate General Sir Alex. Le't''lsferiv of Freefield and Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire, t° f Oor t g Julia, only child of Sir Henry Gordon, Bar t •t ° , 3 ,cli' court, 1.W., and Knockespock, Aberdeenshire, ' Mary Gordon. Deaths. bt i le(' GRAHAM.—On the 15th inst., at Chester, the Big 11 1 . 6 ' John Graham, Bishop of Chester. Go la n • a ir W g lj LANCEy.—On the 13th inst., at Blake House, Be 1 0 c sex, Mr. Thomas Lancey, aged 45. r S .E juoh•—nOGnodstheenl,satghedin7sot.., at 13, Spencer-street, ME M RED ere rr di li tc - , TEMPLE.—On the 12th inst., at Constance, -1-p/srt• Eosqn„thaegeld6t7h3i.nst., in Guildfordzst_ire:tlvolpie, relict of the late Sir Grenville Leofrio Tengo °7 „ t ^it °. _____------__— If AND —'l‘ l l ' London : Printed and Published by WIL LIA — ‘ , 4 It ot of No. 112, Strand, Painter , at Tx:: Snx 01"%01$1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa:oy, in the ' iliddlooose—gottuday, June 17, 1f166. 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