The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-21 00:00:00

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Mr. Conan pat Ibe Imeensis eat* era war
&amen bah mad k a
view when he aseilkal la Ma 111116213 =easlilt
that their vales use rester it the fit sec sir-
chant steamers sege k lia hedge mad ~kg
trade. Lard Joan MINIM% tag INN liselleime
tea dainty, mid be did net believe the eletenana
WI tem however, hem a return premeld le go
seelaildne ote navy, array, and ordure* salaam
that the total tonnage of our 174 war steamers is
IMMO tene. Ja the revenue tables for this year the
almeasesals lsisaging to the British envie see
dead
Ones. le
arlilLlN tone. bre et the eae a r
kesAdd to this, 1 oa of 1846
l:ple
the
somploa that the increase in 1847 beta es
rest as it wee in 1846), and we have a Ma.
or
of 147,212. Mr. Com, who to
tweed Mr. COBDLN'e statism% ailadei the dela
IMof the Bride ample ad eillithrs al
C; sod if we &dna the 111,560 lean elesienivi
steam= hem this, it will give 148,492 Mee INA is
'within a tai a ens setimete. Any integral...ft
builder or seggraelare esavereant with ties
eon tell tint II leg met awe te get 131,768 71as
war steams with their amenents reedy for sea
Theo 148,1111 leas of sereheet steamers. Add to this,
sir =ask as brag ad shore money in on-
gauge sad Wee kr repairing oar steam
that than is Messed in all the private yards for
seeking end repairing all oar sershalit steamers sad
that all the stesseeegines der the royal navy.
on made se Me primate ibehries. These facts
algae are net a esailmine segement to show
that the menet of err deem ies is too
great; bat the manner la widie Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL naiad Mr. COBURN./ aillement in the there
of Oemems—.4he wearies% ea unwarranted, coa-
t:idiotism whisk his fright needs him bolt out—shows
that pvertunent have really bed ao anoeption of the
expense they lave base incurring, and that, unsup-
ported by a dame belief in its necessity, they are
afraid and aimed of what they have done when it is
brought home to them.
The dinnesetioaate number of large ships of the
line in esiesimion is another unneemszy and hurtle!
loans of expeeee. These nada are utterly unfit far
the only sloths which a ship of war has to perform in
time of pesos. They are not adapted for moving
about and making themselves useful to merchant
ships or their owners as brigs and sloop'
are. They must either lie in harbour for
six or seven months at a time, tiring a salute one
day and dogging a man another, or they mast be
kept at sea as the Examiner recommends, not to dis-
charge any useful service, bat simply to prevent the
crew from ruling by inaction. The practice of com-
missioning large ships of the line is a part of our: aria-
tooratieal system. It affords appointments worthy of
men of " rank and influence," who would feel them-
selves degraded by being cribbed up in a brig or
sloop, and at the command of every merchantman in
need of protection std countenance; but who are wil-
ling enough to lie six months in the Tagus or at
Malta, " doing the political," or to take oat their
ladies to give balls on board to such company as
clan be picked up on the station.
When premed by the committee to explain the use
of this enormous and enemies force of ships of the
line and war steamers, Lord AUCKLAND uniformly
took refuge in diplocuatil mystery,—" That is a po.;
Racal question of which the government must judge.
The committee did not feel themselves warranted to
press into the penetralia of the cabinet, but there is a
passage in their report which shows pretty clearly
that they suspected this reticence was affected for the
purpose of concealing truths which it might be in-
convenient to acknowledge ; and that Lora AUCKLAND
refrained from stating the reams why so large a
navy is kept up because he was conscious they could
not bear the light. The panne to which we allude
ls as follows :
The distribution of the force must be regalated eonel.
duration' of general ran, late which year 00111111Ine• do
not propose to enter. Sem of the reuses. ter the mists-
nano, eta Isom these didereat mations may be seen is the
evidence given by Lord Auckland. It does appear, how.
ever, from a eariery view dhow, statements, that whatever
ewes may howled teas &serous slime on any particular
stslissr, mho owes *As form AstB brat age wad, Mere is
sheer seas seefereweek Madrona to its.wieseesset reaso
aim Thus it es ens that the desteneness is New
'hen is Ike Mahan Basile, lestahlee la Kallielmtlid, eal
had be is lamellae of naval hese ens these swim ; tat
yes Idea the sassy hostess tetanal end hottilithe me et ea
ealoasr dudes en feud for the shipe, sad he hese whisk
we envied hr the owniageney eta e semis se=
I mans amelidunest la time of pease. Thin me
wheanedis demeaserenes el naval yew may hs a wanes.
ma, bat I may also be sespeeted that Asses e
mmins an selsetest es pen with a arse pierd
; and It thisseme, a nes aimeWnides sea
heft
a ben ezessaed ea las pert of the. home worm
meat to regniCe the of the OM is wish a mem
ear es AA /ma new tas omens, cf ear ammo sad
protect the Anent deminfene ales mews waken hmessieg
say uenessemey lends es as Imam dads assay.
If there he menedag in teak the lease of this pas.
sego is--" Wee arms widen is dro ovalsetbzowa
over the cause het hatpin ep 10i the
readiness to im 2 ams ea smegaulea the dowser
to reduce after these enserniss have paned. lees
an awkward ; it was not for me
to began , bat we think the hew
ought to do so." Into the general and per-
manent features of ministerial policy it is
not only the right, but the day, of ear
representatives to inquire. As soon as the home
meets again, ministers should be called upon to assign
their name for persisting in a naval expenditure
which startles themselves when its fall amount is
brought home to them. It is all very well to keep a
sharp eye upon details of management; we have
been preaching this doctrine for months ; but when
the outlay is so enormoua it is only by reducing the
sum total that sensible alleviations of the national
burdens can be effected.

Tin notice ender the inane of M. GOIIDCHAUX,
the French Minister et Filmes, which eaddialy
sea& its appanage ea Saturday last, ha prams& a
a:agreeable slag upon the Paris 'tea-
M. Gomm= wry palely aims to dis-
sent the certificates of the new lean at 4 per cent.,
or, it le en twined nemmlaten, b cases to give 4
per ant to every hada el the new nip who will
have the geeing to anticipate by at last thirty
days the instalments due under the contract. The
people el the Bourse have very naturally construed
this blination into a sign of poverty. They join
together the nibs of the 16th of September, and the
dividend lay of the 2fied of September, and without
any reasehable stretch of penetration they trace in
the lases of the advertisement an attempt to
obtain has lire the payment of the aniline. The
bona d the sheet lies beginning to be visible, and
it has hams t swine and an urgent question how
to replaidak. By en method or another—either by
the new melba el diesienting (as it is called), sales
made fir the ameent. er by openly or nerstly giving
a rats if astesen seen than 4 per cent—by post-
paid", the payments of claims which are due, or ex-
torting the sesaibution of taxes in advanseby some
or all of theme devises we have little doubt that M.
Gounensirx will this time weather the day. The Pro-
visitant Governmest got over the other awkward
point in the winder of the Funk exchequer—we
man the 2f"& et March, and the malts will scareely
bends& en the Mt warden thet neither feat is to
bervishrmed. It is imagelem, that the French
net her. Ina eat Wore new that it
wee at bat t bleadathamaisertagenant to keep
on hot four days et payment in the
year fie the disberement 800 ot francs,
and so contrive the prepafion that two-thirds of the
ran meant sheuM be divided between two occa-
ism March and September, and that Jane and
January should be compautively holiday nuns for
disposing of the driblets which compose the odd mil-
lion-. These, however, are the facts; and since the
reiteration, the cows des couples have gone under this
delightfully undulating system of an alternate plethora
of funds and plethora of business.
There is something man, however, to be maid
about the present posture of the finances of France
than can be exprase4 by a fit of grumbling or an
exclamation of surprise at the ra use of French
dexterity. M. GAINIEZ PAGES and M. Du-
maw had the misfortune and the bad
taste to render the dilapidated state of the
exchequer more alarming than perhaps it ready is by
the obtrecive eccentricity of their plans and their ex-
position With M. awns PAGES the old reeving@
and the mariner of Lou Is PHILIPPE were the ac-
tual root of all evil in his department. Everybody
' remembers the arithmetical remain with which he
diversified, in the name et the exact sciences, the
perennial rhetoric and the ceaseless legislation of the
month of Mara. But even M. GIANIGZE Ram had
, his eyes saficiently open to perceive a deficit, and
after all—fully sensible se we are of his vagaries, inten-