The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-02 00:00:00

WOODEN WALLS AND STONE ONES.

BY THE AUTHOR OF '',

11.. N.

FONTENOT,"

NOW that tit wit is over, trod that thit illminr
thou ere ever, I tansy the British poblk is likely to broilm
her our aavy has MINI out of it, and what oar terry is
gMag it dot Of minim ell aaval men know In OM kid of
way what is to be done : a lot Waite will be paid of aid the
mat will carry their gainsay knowledge to the Yeakess
and their seastaiship to the easseheat Navies. The Medi-
terranean Beet will he »heed to numbers jut salkiest to
enable the Admiral to dabble is diplosamy. He will mad
Bulger to Beyriat with a little squib= to keep We eye es
the eastern quietism; a greater swell than Bodge, to
; and Lima IlimPealet to Corfu. The ell Malta
bare-drum will begin sob, end the eaptalas bight to take
beams lie their wives in 13Mada, Donbass, de. Bat, how-
ever aatual this may ell asses—end *sigh prometices will
be gives to may follows who semi mom& a foot with the
Naval Brigade (b the essoungemait ref the preemies),
pot we are eat minesesed jest new with oar old
bind the Host as of the wake. I repeat that
tees publie is inquiring what the navy did dating
the war, sad whet the femme of the professios is to be, from
o knee point of view than that tabs, in at the windows of
the easel clubs. Here is our right to seine goods in neu-
trals gems; the Toilette, asps Lord Hardwick*, wan »-
minas privation, though we do. Dasdonald We Kr.
Dison's Blake) Is at mina with the memos notice that
forts are impipabie by memo. The visualisees of naval
cadets le wider Mesionism. The pablie ie punted. All
Mine MEW le • peeled whim we shall hear of the navy •
Brent dial; tie het, in the keg ran in Eegl•ad it is always,
of the two *makes, the eu whisk comma& the most eon-
deter interest. And if there had mimed a prospect of its
dabs anything of the old stamp—of its having • regular
AIM% to feet—the pease would have bees awl bee wal-
let= OM popular than it is. I think that Das ay at sash
• tame overhaul a few naval questions, with act ham to the
preforion iWlf, aid with some good to lionising and
bewildered readers.

With regard to the war, It is the first and moat Importaat
feet that it has nod answered for its the sew questions which
abaagM times lime brought fate can! discussion. Ws
have me bad s shams of sodas bow steam, improved
means et doing, sad to on, will really affect aaval actions.
The Sapp. affair would emu to show that more rapid
mar of destruction sow mkt. But how atom will Osage
Ni fight', and what influence the shame will have in dial-
'tithing mere tsasideol superiority, we have not had a chance
of seeing. This, the great questioa, remains in suspense.
Yet, more ought to have been eapected from the Roden.,
too. The rise of their naval power was oft.. talked of, here,
before the war begs' ; and Indeed oast English captain was
dismissed from his ship (according to popular report) ter
peiblisking a pamphlet on the outdoor. The Admiralty don't
like yea to be Coo sodve and intelligent ; they like you to do
you work and no am, and they bow-striag you with red
tape if you step bops& ft. Rims their will-karown par-
' delay to elderly leadsmen fa onsmaad ; while they have
a paha hate for a maa who aver appeals from themselves
to the public.

Well, la "pits et this proviso, and though it is attain
that Rads& monk are sometimes sees in a nosy smart ma-
dities in the Mediterranesa (I remember the naiekness with
which us and herself from being run into by the clumsy
Petrel, Capt. Bibb, in 1843) we all know they did not some
out. W. were badly manned aad disciplined—Napier says
es, and he ought to know—as badly amazed as we Were
when within a us of a ?rush war is 1840. Bat
I des* say if they had known this it would
have made no differnee. Vie bad time, anyhow, to
get to rights in that respect (just is time for indmd
by an odd coincidence), and we began the blockade.
Bweaborg was.not a naval mica, and threw no light es
the gelation abort-rasationed, or it the noes wall question.
The country got tired of heating that the blockade was
complete, for all the while, the Heiden Beet was safe, and
the great Rossi= strong►olds in the Berth safe. They are
este still ; and as for what might have hiss dose this SUM.
ran, that nobody sea know. What remain bat to wonder
ors► the fact that two swam two admirals, and a great
Best, did no more ? This is easy enough ; bat I warn the
feeder, that the gentian what more could have bees dime ?
does 'at lie, by any mesas, is a nutehelL He should make
up his mind that whiny': else thus war has taught as, it
has left all kinds of naval problems lasseived, aad that oily
when we get late a good naval wet shall we know bow
the case studs between Embed, modern changes, and the
world. The natation is whether them changes leave as ,
in Mans goes, with oar relative superisrity undisturbed, or
whether mar nentieel npriority (joint remit of oar blood
sad oar ememeres) has become a matter of less cease-
queue, sail left us ander a maw Mats of things, more it a
par with other mikes.

Now the stens walk question I, in Rainy points °lvies,
sot a good gigs. It has certainly bees a tradition son minas
Blake's time, that batteries ran be attacked by ship,. Blake
held the theory and showed the practice. Nelson at
Copenhagen. and Basonth at Algisrs—not to go into lea
/mous instances—were strikingly earessefal. It le saucily

fair to meatiest Agra, when the. resietanss was so paltry.
The military am naturally are en the midi of tho bet-
MAIL Sir Howard Douglas maiden four m. under
proper 'auditions, a match fora lincof-battle .lip And
I such gentlemen &ow frightful pistons of the facility with
'Malt ships may be eig ea suesseres of the men
is the topsoil yards when frilling sails, with shrapnel skills,
te. I remember bow you, Pihwegger, It A., informed
• few of is, who won going over Elmo at Malta, that ho
would blow the " Prisons Charlotts " at of the water
whammy,' required. Bet there are plenty of coral men
who agree with th• military ones. Sir Charley varies.
When shamed with sot doing it Monti, he says
it's impossible when aceesing mother -ma for
sot doges it, he Males that Ws practicable! It
is not for you owl m, good radar—it is not for
Mr. Bugging of the Southend Yasbt Ciab (when skipper
sails his "Anemias" Sr. Ma, and who as mare wins •
nee thus the Mil el the whining knee at Epsom does)—it
is sot for " the like. of Ile (ss our old boatswain in the
" Snake " mood to tay, speaking of the general oppression
of the lower orders) to be dossed* ia the matter! The
interest to us b, that the polat is is dispute, and that it is
possible • great power at war with las may one hat Int,
dockyards, capital, and kiagdem—as far, at beet, as nsist-
ieg our ships gees.

W. mot ;mettle °treeless by a bold preposition had
down by Lord Deadmald, who has spent his life in
patting inch things into practice. He teems to madder
(as I gather) that the harder the job appears, the pester
me the Mesas et sascires—the more danger, the more
leak ! It would seem, la fact, that, ameedleg te this, wo
went the right sort of uses es a preliminary. I Melia. spoilt
to bold, that the man is the real reptialte. Bet this doe-
+rise is out of halm If you mention Nelms or Collisg
weed, year ordizary admiral—my Admiral Bohan Brown,
G.C.8., liontemat at aisetem, muted at twenty-ale, mid
so oa--eneen at you, He is sot Nelson is Collingwood he
says Mid yea agree wit► him) and he Meats ea taking a
practical view et Ike matter—pmeticalia ordinary mimeo,
'amain sommonplemi. Admiral B. B. is tee masidevieg
the "eireanarteasse." Bat oinusstaness Si. act Azad sad

Immutable—the same to ose maa or soother. They will
Tory—they ere moveable. What is dangerous to A is sot
des/prom to B. hassle B comports himself differently
towards ft. • shell to bbl into a veep or erode sad lino
hissing before them—sae mos slaty he the premises et
mind to throw it overboard; seek a meals • lord dolmas.
sesame. mere er loos to a greeter dome, thee ahem. He
to worth say somber ef the eikus—tor soak Ibises.
Things its really less dissever to him. to short. Besides,
everybody knows that the superiority etas ludividsal raises
all the resole she to, sada, him. Take away Brows tram
a mambos sad brim Cothsgwooa. It is a post ohmage of
mos ; but there is • Mill greeter cheap is the sew mend
life white ells tie miss of .11 about. The blot abeam we
tam, thee, of 'Wag the Ikea. Walls versus Wooden
Walls " goalies MOW, is whoa we get a maa who does the
Wails. Wallop's**. I shield sot Nadia tN issue.

r yam at an *ad if Brows wool hi and loot. Brows mold
sot ban Lao Dowlosokro work ; Ito would owns hove
trial it. Moro k • pass k than mutton, and jut at
prewar Ni see deals* dowoOt tertbeouteg ; the Old
Scheel ue wetly duo est, sad the New School Ms not
Neu tn.

lir Oberlin (for whom I endue a high Melinda' of a
Mad, and WIN WM treated with sordid suenaeas dung the
nu) ken hed his gnat& at the now school, as at sway
other thin.. He says they lan& at the old school, and so
a. Bat thithet is that then has bola demiaant a hied of
interniediannebool is the navy for some time ; within the
senior of Sat nterens, or *sir mash hens% of their
abeam of eisherling servilint—theee NM have kept up the
tradition or-verity wince no soperkeity whin made it
tolerable, as have waned over their ereamoname
nosy with She mat aft the w sespostability " whisk en
the noses 8111441 in Via The old sea-king h gette—outhe,
pig bile, ma all; end sow we have a fellow of the half-
bend, bought up during the time when the old severity
lingered and no great wen were ever, mere d a geatinasa
(is the want snob) bet lees of a saes ; and still far be-
lated the sew school ho polish or eels meat, and mereilms
oa all the weaknesses which pone, Hisser in harbour,
eageader—coat a debt, &Wylie', dheipatioa,
which res* may eo-eziet with meat matt ma
trrial sad premise. • ma of title intrrosediate
stook when he henna old, ad gets high rank, is the
' gamine Fogy of madam times. Like old Sir Elstoodle
Bump at liana is my time, he is week in great matters sad
pawn to little ow—esal onaaap a great Kaaren sad
weal permit a regatte—der setting to trash yes your
week, sad won't let you go ashen without your sword cm !
These ere the nen who are Si preset buds of the sor-
rier, afloat (with nankin) sad who are in sae Bean the
old school--the regular old school being pretty well shelved
and toddling about the seaports or country towns, or the
clubs. The sew school's time is searcely come yet ; and the
loot war gave them so eltun—.wept in the Naval Bri-
gade, which was soma, the shame I man. The future of
the service will depend as the way Is which the rising par
ration are brought up, on the way la which the promotion
are maaeged—on the mimosa being brought Into harmony
with the new times. There am two dangers pre•smineat—
the rule of the Fogies, sad the fast that the zoospore have
se little to do. It was the Fogy tradition which made the
Baltn campaigns such humdrum affairs. The old school woad
have does something from their old habit—the new school
from their fresh youth. Sir Chula was in a faleeposibeto—
from hie want of gunboats, and it may be from his years.
But the regular heeds of the service aloat,what did they do ?
What men of theta was ever thought of by the country,
bat Sir Edmund Lyon? I have put the OMB for stone
walls as strongly as need be. But at beet, it was • disputed
quotation. One might have expected that it would be tried
at all events. It was always thought before, that there
was some risk inseparable from war. Brown won't fight
till he is gins carton to bat; ad he can't expect say rota •
mutable enemy to take that view. He may depend upon It,
enemies of all natio., will shelter themselves whoa they
can, with propriety, tad that ha ean't get oheenuta oat of
Si Are without risking his lagers. What ought to be out
deduction ? Why, that we mast look out for some other
man than Brews. We must shone oar animal scondiag
to the country, and if be shies at stone walls, we mast try
another.

Bone speculaton think that it is awe that plays the I
mischief, and that the navy must seeds be degenerate a
proportion at It because a steam navy. There is some-
thing in this, for beyond doubt, it is in sea-
userehip that the Bsglisk beat other nations.
Bat still, WOW USN& by so mass steam always
(ad when they steam at wrong times the captain Is
obliged for the male) ; nor are all vessels as yet maw PM.
Lot as hope that the education of caws in " deem" is pro-
greeting; for I ~amber as std ...stiassas la command of
wino wee et the mercy of his osifississer and who
could
washing off, mass mysterious "accident" impeding the
machinery up to that time. Let us hope, too, that there
will be plenty of sailing vseside built still; in many weathers
they are just as useful as steamers; and, alter all, we want
macro. Hmswkile, Utile new generation are to beesilore—
it would be as well for their lordships to keep our squadrons
more at sea. It seems that we have had a lassos la the
Crimea which is making us arrange for camps and brigade
ozonises, that we may be able to begin a war without losing
an may. I humbly recommend that we take stops to in-
sure our having somebody who can mancsevre a fleet. It
may be a water of opinion whether sea defenose
are to be henceforth safe from attacks by ma.
But I suppose nobody doubts that we ought to have
fleets working with that beautiful harmony and
Dirt-lke ease which distinguished the old uses. Such
a spectacle is very rare now. The duty of which least is
known is the highest duty of all, nefortunsaly—the duty ,
of an admiral. Fortunately for the navy, men of ordin-
ary ranks cannot well be off knowing their regular work ;
but it is the evil of the existing stets of things that for
extraordinary requiameats no provision Is made. Oar
political jobbery leaves us, whea It eases to the scratch,
with nothing to help ourselves to but the bad fruits of a
bad system.
How &ha will be ever changed—the "system," I mean,
as it is emphatically Wad—passes the wit of man to pre-
L did; it may be one of the destined spats in the decline
I of this kingdom—of which, by the way, any declise is our
lava' power will be the first and surest forerunner. In the
old days it was war that kept the aavy in a date vitals,
however rough, was great, glorious, and satisfactory. There
was j cbbery, no doubt; but the force of nature was too
strong for it to work much harm; there was the "open
career" from causes fa beyond the reach of Admiralties
to binder; and the life itself wee too rough for it to be courted
by parents for the sucking dandy to whom it would have been
tertere,—er the growls, blockhead, to whom blockbesdiam
would have brought ruin and dishonour. Those days are
gone. The dad, Is as much at his sue under the wag of
his ands, Captain Belle, et the " Opole," as he would be
I at the West-sad ; and the blackbird sea jog on in a ass-
miced—uot only with nooses, bat, as times go, In a kind of
triumph. No man has any chance of rising but by political
interest—whieb, in the loeg ram, mass mosey—which may
man @myt►img. I sometime ea proposal. to raise we from
before the most—as was so (mussily dime ones—but hare,
again, the spina steps in, and mossy prevents it. Classes ere
so separated from demos by it, sad the diligence, it creates—
differesees more hopelessly wide than the old feudal ones,
sad not so kosoarablo—end the modern service so rsilecto

oar society (sot beim so isolated from the shore es of old),
that I sounder this cheap more difficult than ever. Bet
have we made the meet of the wasting material—of the of-
ficers whom we do possess from the upper and middle
classes ? Can we sot give some miss issiamiseleas f Cgs
we sot insist es • higher steadesd of ezamiseties t AU
t►is is practicable enough, sod quite as much wasted
is the sisal uis the civil service. The other reform may
ho somewhat achieved through these—thst is, the reform of
the systems. But I /ether fumy we west more looms ea
that subject just yet. There ere difficulties to hoesemsatered
by every bad system at last—sad you ass% always fight shy
of them as prudsotly as Brows Eights shy of—stone walls

RIMINT'S PAZI, YZOTZlLDAY.—Yestettiay afternoon a
bout of 80 performers, sooductod by Mr. F. Proms, played
is the Rerrest's Park from 4 to 6 o'clock, pa. Prim
30,000 to 40,000 people sire present uses" whom were
Sir John illbelley, li.P., Sir Joshes Wattmeter, M.P., Sir
11. Raiford, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Le. The
greatest order sad deoerum prevailed, sad the bead epos
their arrival sad departure were greeted with load and
moral sheen.
Tao AMERICAN MAIL.—Os Saturday eftsmocie,
the British aid Nee* Americas Royal Mall steamship
Arabia, Captsis State, took her departs,. from the Mersey.
ter New York, with the sisal weekly mall Me the Weston
Nodose% 11. paumews. ands hill wipe d masebandis.
[Advedissmsatl--BouowArs 01117111.11? Ills
Trust Insimmees as Mins er assorma.—Omp of • lade
tram dr. OttTift Inorseloster. deeram, to Plaksair
=M. Moms yawns. WO" In
vas la wry does soma= al with moddirit
seek ender media In ms biped a idea, but dl Mei
The dtram
in mrittmoteldly reteedd sasesawe he
drrmraa Milkwierb Oladoid=llll%.l. mil by Sir
mils be Ws ft date he Is we "'several. addle/al
.sews adore dron'hed Ye "odd; at Mame tiellorrore
eaddifehemeds. sta IllesnA lend" sod la, Mehlealass, New
Tani b Leda" Ormassibmis; A.cluldisy. slams ; sad a.
Utak NM*

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SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, BESTIR HALL
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noel perforzasaae illiyak ow Friday nest, rune 6. Prin-
cipal vocalists Madame Clara Novelle, Madame Viardot,
Mn. Loekey, Mr. Side Beers% sad Herr Feriae&
COTNNT-OAILININ TERATRIL—There is sow Acutely
say doubt (says a well-infonned correspondeat) that by nut
seem the nbuildlog of this theatre will be completed, and
that the lyrical drama will cede more find its mod splendid
home in How-etrat The building is very far lees injured by
the recent fire bow is gauntly supposed ; the sternal shell
will wed very little removed's, sad the bonniest smite,
of peat utast and etllity, are almost unharmed.
ITALIAN 01.11 A AT THE 81311111 T THEATRE.—The
melee of Italian operas assotinced foe performance at this
theatre, give se mush prorate of smelleses iagEr the
artistic arrangement% that the sMiertakiag. a bold
sae, bide fair to be meet suesesslSl The nosey
will
be a short one, will conieseem es Mearlayi:iatll asp,
sad the following operas are already Ow
"(parkin Barbidre Nereicti loarais
Hargis, Ls Sorrromithils, mid as Hasa nukes of the
Behossiaa Girl, whilst the list el oniehee eonpilbse the
LIMNS of Madame Demist, Madam Bodeolioef, Kama'
Label, Mime Cendorl, NAM. Oplionek Maine.
Badendorff, Madlle. Braised, Signer Loehni, K. Di
Lieffill, Signor Lorini, Mr. Swift, Miser Fortin', Signor
Piarini, M. Ouster, ac. The director of the musk and
eantoetoe I. to be Kr. Alfred Mellon, sad there Is to be a
ballet ow nob noshes sifter the open, iopported by Min
Rolm Wright, Mane. Marie, sad Mane. Agars. As
this is the lint time mask ea esperiseat has boon tried in
this locality, there can be little doubt that its novelty will
lend ea additional chasm to the entertainmeats, which, it

appease, are to be conducted is a scanner worthy of the
Italian stage and its protestor..