The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-13 00:00:00

IRON OR WOODEN ARROUR-PLATED SHIPS FOR

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Oapply the motion that the bows go into committee of
su .
Mr. LINDSAY moved a resolution. "That it is mg ex-
pedient to commeoce at the present time bandies wooden
ships which are to be cased with iron armour-plates." Ob-
serving that this question bad been reserved, during the
debate upon the Navy Estimates, he mitered into a variety
of techniml details as to the cm:vocative merits and die-
advantages of wooden ships plated with iron and
bus ships, eitteg sad someneating upon opinions of
pewit& men who ham aegaged is the controversy of
" Wood v. Iron." He then discussed the question whether
it ors advisable to build the five ships is hand in her Ma-
jesty's des yards, or whether it world not be better to build
them by tender and contract in private yards. This quo-
tient be swayed in favour of the latter alternative, fortify-
lag his °occlusion by authorities, sad romplsioing in semen
tams of the injury done to contractors by the manner in
which thiq bed bees spoken of—es he contended, unjustly
by the OonSener of the Navy.
Lord O. PAGET replied to Nr. Liadeay.
1= a state-
ment In the ffenifeeer is Is /Wit whisk . •
derby ewer the ire* Gelb of ether mikes for Vis: ssoe,t
reared the home that It ow atoeletellip..neoreary the* we
should moth= to boad He then ex-
aothted
iiiph &lan tisk= fee mall spinet iron
and iron , Mips tompeetlvely, point's( oat Manse-
Weber elladmateepaslawdler to the tormerbe.wa
Sew emielemelisoe with a vim el =sift pews
earleoHer el the Navy sea the iron Wastre. he
the chho:ovenaests ~,Tetaitifeis istroireeed loto
bor. e deekrarde, am by the Nmral 0471121.1
iiiiioll4 the geese*. *Whir the ere libiPll ig
hes. ritoeld bed wood ma errieetoopletei, or Mires. /I
of irk Mos lasi) reest.;beett Wit& dillipetir Irtoi
, me mated, end Ir•A it as. the br• 01 frl.
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t, It was hepooilMo for say goveteateet to we-
,
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igl ialltroir mid that there was pea* Atka*
=to melmien on this subject, bed ow the
tft better that the xistber Audi be left
to her e gorememat, who were reepoeende lie pr.
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regretted that the t had
mititeheiNeSee la the edema of the whisk
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beam tbeileverlmewe my empabwhy me the
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yinoll goes with his mama
Mr. LAIRD hoped the house would maw fhb
matter miebely, sad that they wed& be ji=
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of 5
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Dm Maim OMM OM' Imetllp, he felt
ameur-yiebeil 'miss Mei seer sad to be
We ea !my meld thee gubm (Hear =I .
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wit mmealm. he bad the greets* 00•141 a. IP ems•
m W be
Ireefere. be wham be believed, m a body, the metal wee
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Ns. OONENGRAN the motion of the hoe.
boseiher hr ilknedmilsod (sr. Lacher).
Mr. JACKSON maid the plies was not whether they
Amid hive iron or wood munsh, but what they were to do
with the animus now employed is the various government
dockyards. (Hear, hear.) The Admiralty wan overwhelmed
by red tapirm and odielallest, sad did not know how to get
oat of the
diMeulty. The sombiasties the workmen
Ina very Mreag,'and tho deskysid anyan ex-
toady*, and =lam the t effected great cheaper
there would be much in dialing with the cab**
as it ought to be handled.
Mr. G. BENTINGE wird with the errisOgy for the
Admiralty that them wee a gnat deal to hie mid as both
sides of the cpuestioo, sad thet ale man could tell the
result' of the experiments Mussel looMme width were
sow going on until after the lapse of thee, or the emir.
race of wit. Preen eli he maltoolleet, be won of att
that the hbitmid most 4103•01gaial MAO of bailding;
ships was with an Iron ii 11146 sad wooden Amok& (Beer.)
Tor himself he did not think it advisable that the
country should be solely 4speibmt hr her ow, on the
exertions of private yards. (Ram) What he alsorald like
to sea ass the matiossame of the double system of building
Czboth is dockyards and privets yards, become le ber-
tha the rivalry between the two would sot m •
1 miniedus upon each, and be taneesial to the ereardzauTirg
motion of the boa. member went the long* of
West the Herd Commone ought to take cat of the hands
of the acirementeat of the day the details of the manse.
soot a th. vy. That was a mischievous sad den
doctrine, caloolated to lead to contusion, avid be t my
tareouskitadocal, and he hoped they would savor mention
the pelealphe of the Home of Commons beemning the axe-
' sables ianiatkirs of detail. Upon these grounds he shield
vote against the moths.

ter. S. ROBERTSON said that heeling reed the report of
rißobinson, be came to the conclusion that yea
miiht to be built, and for the very names urged by
admiral is favour of wooden vowels.
Mr. 88/CROFT must say that he thought it would
be • pest waste of tiros to build wood's meets *ad cover
gums with sewer plates. He should certainly feel it hie
dot, to vote for the motion.
Sir M. MO denied that the boom, in &betties; this
punks, faterfered with the function of the government,
who had invited the disomaiee. He disputed the facia
alleged by Admiral Robinson as the roes& of hi. objectioe
to iron vessels. He declined to be led away from the real
poiat at imase—namely, whether the lye ships should be et
wood ce isms—by dimming the comparative manta of
pabOe sad phut' yards ; and he coorMuded that it would
be smirks reosomy to build wooden frames merely hogense
/ir
they weal! he shown
etas J. HAY spoke in femora of the resolutios, WOWS
Mr-
various matters of detail in relation to trot ships sad their
sissathiag. This questkos, he remarbed. Nabbed addl.
lineal reasons for referrals( the ccestitatlee af the Hoard
of Admiralty. so as to secure individual mepoosibility.
Sir F. BARING damned that, op= a subject so isms-
weed by doubts, the Oeatreller of the Noy mid a large
majority of the officers of the Navy le: Itemtr of
woodee rm* it was tee mush to eksesebsrise
as alimad. The reoolutioa did see pro. e the se
itoo ships and be thought it would be Irwin set to leave