The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

SERVICE.

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Sir S. NORTHCOTE eked the Secretary to the Treasury
when the packet estimate would be brought forward ; whe-
ther any contracts had yet been made for the Dover and
Ostend aid Dover and Calais services ; or whether those
services were still open to tender ; and what arrangements
had been made for carrying on the services alter the
20th June?
Mr. F. PEEL said he did not propose to bring on the
packet estimate till after the Civil Service templates had
been disposed of. With regard to the service between
Dover and Ostend, some time ago the Treasury received a
tender from the Belgian government to perform the service
from the 20th of June, and the Treasury accepted that
tender cooditionally on no funds being provided by par-
liament for Mr. Churcbward's contract beyond that dete ;
and the other day they informed the Belgian government
that they accepted the offer unconditionally. With regard
to the Dover and Calais service, they had the other day re-
, ceived • tender from the South Eastern and the London,
' Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, offering to perform
that service from the 20th of June next for 6,0004 a-year,
and they had accepted that offer.
Sir S. NORTIRX)TE—For one year
Mr. F. PEEL—For seven years.
SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE
Sir J. PAXINGTON asked the Secretary to the Ad-
miralty whether the rumour that the chief constructor of
the navy had examined apprentices and factory boys in
Woolwich dockyard, with the view to the establishment of
a government school of naval architecture was correct ; sod,
tt eo, whether the Admiralty contemplated the revival of a
school of naval architecture for the royal navy, in preference
to the combined action of the Admiralty and the private
trade, which had been proposed
Lord C. PAGET said Mr. Reed, the gentleman to whom
the right hon. baronet alluded, had not received the title of
chief constructor to the navy, although he was entrusted
with most important duties connected with shiptuilding.
He bad been sent to the dockyards with a view of preparing
designs for ships of various clam*, and not with a view of
mating inquiries as to a future school of naval architecture.
But he might state that the Admiralty was making inqui-
ries with a view to a future provision of architects not only
for the royal navy but alao for the private trade of this
country, and all their inquiries tended to a mixed system of
education rather than t.) one confined exclusively to the
royal navy.
VOLUNTEERS AND THEIR OFFICERS.

Sir It. CLIFTON uked the Under-Secretary of State for
War if command* officers had power, after the dismiasal
of volunteers by them, to advertise such dismissal in the
newspaper, and cause placards to be printed and circu•
tided ; and if he was awe» whether any such came of adver-
tising and placarding bad lately Liken place in the
metropolis ?
The Marquis of HARTINGTON said the commanding
officer ought, according to militar► practice, to insert in the
regimental orders any sentence of dismissal which he might
have pronounced, and the cause for which such sentence had
been given. and this entry ought to be made known to all
the members of the corps. He was aware it was the prac-
tice for some officers to insert their orders ss advertisements
in the newspapers, and to print them in placards. It was a
question that he need not enter into whether that was or
was not a sufficient way of making known a regimental
order ; but it appeared clear that the commanding officer
was justified in giving the same amount of circulation, and
no more, to an order containing a sentence of dismissal as to
any other order. _ _