The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 7.

No hearer Or reader of the SZCILZTARY
Aosta...trios minus/ exposition of ibis Navy Esti-
mates, and of the discussion which his agreeable
atatement provokes, can escape the esseation of
being tossed about from one extreme of incredulity
to another. The Sacarrativ, with the aid of •
voice of singular sweetness, and admirably =du-
. .

lated, would fain persuade the Committee that
the Board which he represents is the beat possible
of Boards, and that the administration of the Navy
is the perfection of economy and efficiency in all
its branches; nothing but smooth water and
Sue weather, delighted officers and happy mews,
prize ships, and model guns. But no sooner have
the last echoes of the Secaarsav's &lost weenie
died away than a cold shiver of profound des-
pondency seises the audience, and Sir Join; Ps CM-
TON, in his capacity of a past and always possible
FIRST LORD, and in the most deliberate and busi-
nesslike manner, informs the Committee, through
a series of what the French call " interpellittMns"
to the Szczeisav, that, according to the rumours

that have reached him from the most authentic
and trustworthy sources, we have at present two
classes of ironplated seagoing ships in course of
construction, which may be thus described :-
1. Ships that cannot live at sea in heavy
weather ; 2. Ships defenceless at both ends ;
in other words, ships that cannot float,
and ships that cannot fight. Add to these
a clam of harbour ships, drawing twenty-six feet
of water, and there is evidently nothing left to be
desired. We have superannuated all our expe-
rienced practical shipbuilders, and have got in
their stead a dashing theoretical Constructor, who
is working his way through millions of public
money to the discovery of an ideal ship that will
both float and fight. Soch, in a few words and
omitting technical details, are the materials fur-
nished by the present SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY
and the late FIRST LORD to the Committee of the
Commons and to the country for meditation on the
present condition of the British Navy. The world
at large will probably conclude that both pictures
are somewhat highly coloured. There is at least
one virtue in every Board of Admiralty ; it pro-
vides the most authoritative witnesses against its
predecessors and its successors.
But neither the present Szcarrsav nor the
past FIRST Loan seems to be ever so re-
motely conscious of the doubts that suggest them-
selves to simple taxpayers, who have not been
behind the scenes of great departments. Laid
CLARENCE PAGET discourse* most eloquent
music on " that very fine line of battle ship," on
" that very fine force the Coastguard," on " our
" magnificent reserve," on " the education going
" on in the navy," on " the 30 armour ships oom-
" plate or in process of construction," on " the
" school of naval architecture which is working ad-
" mirably"—at South Kensington,while ships that
won't float and ships that can't fight are being
built and launched—on the substitute of
skilled labour for brute force, on the increased
number of gunnery classes, and so forth ;
but he never attempts to explain, and his
heaviest and most sententious critics in

the Committee never ask him how it
happens that on the other aide of the Atlantic
there is a Government that within the space of
four years of a devastating war, has actually
created a navy, adequate for defensive purposes,
for the blockade of 3,500 miles of clout, and for
resistance to Inropaln interference, at a rate of
expenditure, as the Secretary of the United States
Navy, taking the depreciated oarrency into account,
estimates it, less than that of the peace establish-
ment of England. The vote in our Navy Estimates
this ,year is for 52,000 men and bays, including
officers, petty officers, seamen, and coastguards-
men ; besides 17,000 marines. According to the
Report of the Secretary of the United State.
Navy, which we published last Christmas, the
Federal force consists at present of 51,000
men and boys. Oar SecarrAav to the An-
winzuv would have nodiffieulty in convincing the
Committee that the Americans have been building
all sorts and sizes of ships—armour-plated, turret,
screw, paddle, iron, and wood—in the most random
and reckless fashion, impelled by the sudden
urgency of the civil war and by the native propen-
sity for new "notions." Yet if a tithe of the
rumours which Sir JOHN PALI:N(72ON retailed last
evening are anything more than the idle gossip of
disappointed inventors or discontented paragons,
our Admiralty, without excuse of urgency or nor
prise, have been building, not at random or reek.
leasty, but after much forethought sad deli-
beration, unseaworthy and defenceless ships.
And it is these ships, whose names sound so offal)*
tive as the SICAILTARY reads them to the Commit-
tee, that make up the official justification of peso.

estimates equal to if not exceeding
Navy Department of the United S
severest pressure of a protracted •
built and are building huge ships at something more
than a quarter of a million sterling apiece ; and the
interesting question which arrests our responsible
department just now is whether than huge ships
should wahine the qualities of newsworthiness
and invulnerability, or of defecoelessnois at both
ends and capacity for crossing the Atlantic with-
out a " considerable tendency" to sinking.
Lord CLAMMY' PAOI3, however, is always IN
full of promise as a bright spring morning ; and
Let evening he had • very pleasant tele to tell of
"looking forward to a small but gradualreduction
"is the number of seamen in consequence of
" having more armour-plated ships, and ships with
" smaller complements." Such is to be our fleet
of the future. Our present fleet is distinguished
for the number and variety of imposing ships which
would te so much firewood in time of war, but
' which present a very respectable force in the Esti-
mates. Sir J. Emus/crows, who objectsto every-
thing else, has no objection to a roomy wooden
line-of-battle ship carrying a thousand men under
the Admiral's flag in the Mediterranean. Naval
reformers of this good old school are tolerably
satisfied if the same number of men are voted
year after year, though destined to be put on
board ships which for all purposes of war are
as obsolete as the Great Harry. And thus it
is that, in spite of all the searching criticisms in
the Committee of the Howe, the country is mysti-
fied as to its available defensive and offensive
forces at sea. Far all complaints there is one
material formula ever ready in the official mouth—
"transition." We are always in a state of transi-
tion, if it be only from one costly failure to
another. No doubt our experimental ships which
are to form our future line-of-battle, and which
swallow up the millions, are few. Two-thirds of
our navy, whether in time of peace or of war,
must be cruisers, of light tonnage and armament,
built for speed and handiness, and for service on
distant stations. We cannot look forware,4* a
day when England will be content with a &Mon
in the Channel.. But the country has a rigff3to
&mead that a force of women shall not be voted
year after year for ships of ruinous cost and im-
mense pretensions, but slow, defenceless, or un-
asaworthy—painted shows in peace, and cruel
mares in war.

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finance committee of the Reicharath that the govern- I
went would consent to a reduction of more than 20
millions of florins (50,250,000 fr.) on the budget of ,
1866, was received with equal surprise and matisfao-
Non. All the Vienna journals applaud this ram-
lution, which they regard as a certain proof
that an era of prow has commenced for
Europe. The reduction announced by Count
de Schmerling in the expenditure of the pre-
sent year chiefly affects the army, which
absorbed all the disposable resources. The follow-
ing is the manner in which the proposed reduction
is to be distributed :—Reicharath, 500,000 florins ;
Foreign Affairs, 148,000 ; Political Administration,
1,303,000; Pablio Instruction and Worship,
320,000 ; the Attila Chaneery of Hungary, 600,000;
ditto of Transylvania, 183,000 ; ditto of Croatia,
190,000 ; the Ministry of Finance, 2,612,000 ;
Commerce, 681,000 ; Justice, 228,000; Polies,
360,000 ; Control, 135,000; War, 11 millions ;
and Navy, two millions of florins.

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IlfirN ON rim NAIkDUTY IN fins min*
OP COMMONS. IS srvalre.) ,-
''' e' notions figligeting the malt duty stand on
the order book of the Home of Commons for this evening :
"I. Sir Fitzroy Kelly—Melt—To move that is any
future remission of indirect taretion this house should take
lato oomideration the duty es malt, with a view to its
early reduction sad ultimate repeal.
"2. Mr. Neat, —Malt—As as amendment to Sir Pita.
toy Kelly's motion au malt, to more that, ossaidsd the
tav
immunities frost taxatios sow enjoyed by the owners sad
occupiers 4 load, they are not 'added to say special coo-
sidaratioilas acoount of the pecuniary, pressure of the malt
tax ; and that if, on other grounds, Matt tax should be re-
duped or abolished, oompeoration to the revenue should be
sought, in the first instance, by withdrswiag from landed
property the advantage it now has over other property in
the shape of total exemption from probate duty and partial
exemption from sucosesion duty sad inoome tax.
"3. Mr. Hardoestle—Malt--ds an amendment to Sir
Fitsroy Kelly's mottos on malt, to move the previous
quertias."

Mr. Ayrton proposes to nominate the select com-
mittee oa Netropolls Sewage and Essex Beelamation Bill
at follows :—Nr. Ayrkse. Ns. Bering. Sir William Russell,
Dr. Brady, and Mr. Taverner John Miller.
Mr. Baxter will ask the Seogiary to the Treasury,
ea There:lay, it the British and North laminae Royal Mail
Stearn Ship Company are employing reseals sevesteen years
old on the Halifax sad Banos lisp ; and if, at the expiry
of their contract the government intend making new
arrangements by which the smite may be performed with
more expedition and at lees expeose to the country.
Mr. Dawson will ask the First Commissioner of
' Works on Thurd►y whether, in the present Mate of the
enelesure in Leiowiter-equare, it womb'.. he in the power of

thegoveremsnt either to remove or repair the mutilated
stelae, and otherwise improve the dilapidated condition of
the epee to the inetre of the square; and, eeeelderiagthat
the locality is used as so common a resort mom foreigners,
whether say slope Goad be takes to rends it mere suitable
to the proper appearance of a public thoroughfare is the
meiropoliL . .

Mr. Scully, to-morrow, will ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department (with reference to oertain
official correspondence as to the Irish ass, Mies Mary Ryan,
called sister Themes), whether it is intended on the part of
the government, to require that lady to be delivered up by
the Belgian authorities, and to be semoved fres the "very
well conducted asylum at Bruges, where elle is treated with
great kindness and comeideradoe," and farther to require
that, "if she is sti/l imam Willa s►e arrives in this *ma
try, she mast be taken before a magistrate and dealt with
se a pauper lunatic." Whether all British and Irish subjects,
who are Mamie, most be dealt with as pimps/ lunatics, if
their relatives and Rim& cannot take proper care of them
l these countries, though able and willing to do so in a
good foreign whim ; end, whether he will lay before the
house the case as to Miss Mary Ryan, submitted by his de.
sire, to the month of October hat, to the Attorney and Bo-
imam General for Ragland, along with their opinion on i►

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