The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

NAVAL AND NILI7ARY.

On the let of January hat there were 33 snow
line-c44estde ships sloe, sad 16 building or converting; 19
/crew and 9 paddle frigates, and 6 bisilding or convecting; 9
mow block /hips; 4 screw mortar ships; 38 screw sod 86
paddle. corvette s end sloops sad 9 buildicg or ocaterting ; 3
screw and 24 paddle small yes ele ; 26 screw gnu vessels;
161 screw gun boats and 1 building; Borrow gusting bstkefes ;
4 screw sad 38 paddle tenders; 13 screw and 2 paddle troop
and stem Alps; sad 1 screw sad 4 padd'e yachts : making
is all 319 screw and 112 paddle messes ogees, sad 32 screw
In course of budding or converting.

WOOLWICH, Fas. 20.
The committee on dockyard economy, coodatia(
of Rem-Admiral Robert Smart, K.H.aWs•de-m to lira
QUOID • Mr. Hwy Chatfield, muter shipwright •
Dockiird • Kr. Andrew Hurray, chid estsistem ar ergr:
month Doikyard; Mr. Lewes, storekeeper at Chatham Dock-
yard, and Mr. Robert Dowmao, dad trillium and ship-
builder, has mew mogiMed ha labours, the cammittse havlag
visited, is succemirs, dam Amp^ lam, the naval aelabileh-
meats at Pambroke, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Davenport,
11)611.114114 Cluelmm, Woolwich, sad Deptford.
From sureeeme total. on board the steam cots rend Dee,
it has bees memo aimed that ,he auper-baating apparatus is-
vented by Kr. David Patridge, Impact r of a: emn machinery
at Woolvtoh Dockyard, le comb]. at effecting as economy mfuel to the amount of 26 per mot., is addition to taceemiag
the rate of speed. The apposing has barn approved by We
Admiralty, sad Is to be applied to Nam r,l meson mock hi
the Royal Navy.

CHATHAM, FIB. 20.
The Surveyor of the Navy Rear-Admiral Sir
Baldwin W. Walker. cc:emir:teed his cadet insiection
of this dockyard on Fnday evening. After mending a C4ll-
- tine is insiecting the vowels of war on the Mcrae,
Admiral Welker she was aceompenied by Captain Gold-
smith, C. 8., and the other officers of the establishment,
vietel the sew mom basin and the other waits in primes,
after whir& he west through the various temaries and week-
' shove is the dorkyald, end returned to the Admiralty is the
evenftsg.
Yesterday, a vary Mambo= Mame term pa was landed
at this dockyard, having tem captured at the taking of the
Bogue Form by the British forces. This p'ece of ordnance,
*Web is of splendid workmanship and very veinal)* is 16
km in leagtd, and weighs no WI than ten tons. The bore
is 124 Mehes. Another brass gun, of precis-ly the some
aim sad weight, wee taken at the some time, but was unfor-
temeAsfy 1014 oveeboard is the 'attempt to get it on board the
ship hi Chins.

PORTSMOUTH, FIB. 20.
The Termagant, 26, screw frigate, Captain R.
Hell, bent Nib on Pride: main, and hauled to the buoy
olftbaCines Stedriyesteedsymoning,prepsrstory to swigg-
ing Mr oceopaerea. OM war proceed to Spathe:ad cm °reboot
aseday.
It fa repotted that the Money, 40 mew, will be oom-
minimal_ by Csissis W. J. C. effect, late of the Centaur.
TM he 4, stems store gaup, Manse Cow-
.a ?. flardse, snived on Friday eveoreg hoes Wool-
=tilt supernumeraries for the Algiers, recently art'
end with boilers dor the Howe, 124 screw, Sung
oat at
Teo Cores, a French war steamer, arrived a Spitbead oa
TAW main' boa Calais.

COLIN VALLEY AND HALSTEAD RAILWAY.
—The
has has bees oomplobsi by the eoetrartor Munro, who
has formally Mo&I it over tit the elite,iors. The °plain
for walk will take piece is s agile
RAILWAY EXTENSION TO Citoxas.—lt is sported
that steps ate being talu a to promote the extrotron of tall-
ow comatualcotion to Cromer, a waterieg place oa the Nor-
ifolk
MOWIt it stated that it is pr_ojposoi le easel tkie ob-
jot by of a broach hom the Awful Beltway stable
pObt awe Norwich.

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LONDON, MONDIT, lid. 21.

&moon prevail to the egret that slater
Lord DIMS, and his colleagues agreed amongst
themselves' to a scheme of Reform calculated in their
j.idgsnent to satisfy the reasonable demands of the
country, they have been induced to reconsider oar.
tale of its provisions, with s view to disarm oh*.
thou es the part of some of their mon ultra-sup-
porters. The story EOM that, when tentatively
mended as to the propriety of reducing the annual
amount of the occupation franchise in towea,
a troulgrome few of their adherents showed
a disposition to demur ; and that experissies
having beg ago attested the utter inutility of sewer
rant with ainesioeiog beings of the amp be rem
tics, Oovernment hare found themselves awed be
behace the evils of spoiling the plan of Beene
settled before Christmas or causing • new split in theft
already sorely chipped and splintered party bites
Barter. We have no desire to investigate tootles*
the bases of the reports. There are those whom,
with/lase and confident thee that therein no
tion whatever fee the story. They aver that all is
ensaimity throughout the amp, es well as within the
general's test ; and that upon this day week Parliament
will be presented with • retest of desbral Miner
meat to which set eon Menem Beeman andiffivr-
DIGATI will dad any senoisoliessollikotise be ree-
test, and for whisk asearthelem the met Inendene
of their Whig tivais will be esnebidned to wile
on the second reading. What meg happen after
that nobody:seems at present to take serious thought.
The crisis of party fate hangs open the deals
the Nom of Commons may come te, when it if ogled
to approve or disapprove the principle of the
forthcoming Bill. That which is fierly 011111.1.
dered the principle of a meson im the sein amisah.
stance of these main previeses whose depths
would wink an essential sheep is see existing sys-
tem. Of necessity, these Freebies' can he
but few ; the mass of the verbiage and tech-
nology of every elaborate measure, most cam
stet of • number of corollaries from seas three
or four, or it may be half-a-dozen, loading per.
positions. For these, as a whole, the Roue will be
asked to vote, every on. being liable to medigestien,
qualification, or amplification in committee; and if
for theme thus taken together a majority of the pre-
pent House of Commons cannot be persuaded to vote,
it is understood on all hands that an appeal will have
to be made to the constituencies of the kingdom.
As far as the county franchise is concerned, there
seems to be no longer any room for dealt sr
indecision. When the 801. occupation suffrage
was interpolated in the Bill of 1832 daring
its passage through committee, one of the
shrewdest politicians sad beet Liberals of that day
prognosticated that through the *plain then made
by a Tory leader, the Tery party maid ismer or
later lad themselves driven inwards to a meek
lower musty suffraie and the ballot. Lord
ALrnoitex's words are oornieg true. The obstinate
and short-sighted author of the Chandos Clams her
just quitted the scene of worldly eesfsstiest sad
with the Duke of BUCKINGHAM the weed et Ned
whisk he Mimed the Legislature to raise against
popular opinion is the agricaltaral Meioses of
England is about to be swept away. At what
number of shillings a year the rural occupation
franchise may be definitively Ind in committee,
whether at two hundred, as Mr. Loam
Lord
sag.
gest', or at two hundred sad forty, as Lord DWI'
and his friends agreed with respect to bhh conaties
sine years ago—need not be debated hors. That a
great reduction is about to be made is certain I sad
that the second part of Lord ALTIIOaPeS prophecy
will thereby become inevitable seems equally clear.
But what is designed for the extension of the elm-
twat* of cities and boroughs doss not es yet appear
quits so evident. Lord loan Rceseu.'s bidding of
61.—Lard AIIKILDBEN'S of 61.—and Mr. Baiony's of
rating without any poundage limit at all, are all
before the public, and are each in its tarn likely
to be brenght formally before Parliament, should
Ministers so frame their moseure in the that Mame
as to open the door to each comparative propositioes.
But the door will sot be opened if, malmsey to
their own better judgment, they essemisien Mr.
Itt•tesett on the 28th instant to sae& s protest of
law in which, as some suppose. ne "NM altssatiso
is to be recommended in the MOW LK bomb
esaliecatioe. This would sow* be regeoledl
as haler up a position of resit ens so
the adios quo established • linelse of a
oratory ego, which would challenge opposites"'
on the part of the mart moderate of Progressive Re-
former. It would, is poist of fact, be the issuing
of a shibboleth se the not dark., of battle. No-
body who has • oanstiheseey worthy of the name, or
• character for Liberation worth loopier, could sew
tore to accept • Bill of which this formed • lodise
hater.. We have never undervalued the Mims et
tie aunties, or exaggerated the issporamee of the
towns. On the contrary, we have avowed ear de-
mo sympathy with the agrieultaral interest be sot-
tea peirtisal (am distinguished her the lint.
tonal is brut) --even at the risk of dasetiefyisg
many sarseet friend` of the comrade owe i wed we
are not now about to qualify asytkleg we have ever
maid as to the importemee etobtaildeg a hip sites-
'GM of the county exestiteensy, Ass item sake. Bat
we cannot entertain kw se kosessit the We that the
industry and bailie& tithe borne ow be asking
hoes their full share of justice whoa a geossal less-
sore of amendment is' about to be probes& A see-

seliirable majority of the House of Commons is after
all elected by cities and boroughs. A national
miscue that omitted to deal generously sad
liberally with them would lie under the
just imputation of being practioally no UM-
fare at all. We do not believe that the men
of mind and courage in the present Administration
would lend the sanction of their names to any
mem= of the emasculate nature we have hypotheti-
cally described. To carry such a bill would Do
palpably impossible; and to dissolve upon It would
only have the effect of deferring the issue for a few
months longer, without in any degree affecting its
ultimate certainty.
Nor can we suppose that men like Sir J. PALING-
TON, Lord STANLEY, or Mr. DISRA RLI OLD be deceived
into imagining that any r►arrangement of voting on
dcs part of the fortyahilling freeholders in fee, who
new swell the numbers of the county constituencies,
and who, it is said, may with advantage be permitted
the option of recording their votes in the towns where
their little properties are situated, will materially
modify the aspect of the general question. These
freehold suffrages are moat excellent and estimable
in their way, but they are comparatively too limited
in number and in nature to compensate the great in-
dustrial male for the exclusion whereof they now so
bitterly complain.