The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-08 00:00:00

THE NAVY ESTIMATES.

This morning the navy estimates for the year
186041 were issued with the parliamentary papers.

The net incite«, required to be voted for the
service of the year 188041, as compared with
the rots foe the financial year 186940, is
1,028,4821.

The grand total required for the year is
12,802,2001. The items of increase are thus dis-
tributed :—Weges to seamen and marines, 410,0001.;
vietuale for ditto, 216,2281. Admiralty m,',
14,3231.; Coastguard service, Royal Naval Coast
Volunteers, and Royal Naval Reserve, 1,8684 ;
scientific branch, 2,9641.; her Majarty'es esta-
blishments at home. 21,2891.; her Majesty's
establishments abroad, 2,8701.; wages of ar-
tificers abroad, 9,3681.; naval stores, 387,3041.1
'medicines and medical stones. 13,000“ miscella-
neous services, 18,62 W.; making the total increase
far the effective service, 1,098,6311. The wages of
artificers at home are reduced this year by 87,101!.;
sad the wet of new works by 203,3821.
In military pensions and allowances there is an
increase of 4,8491.; and in civil pensions and
allowance', 9,8141. The charge for half-pay this
year is reduced by 27,0491. The sum required for
the oonveyance of troops shows an increase of
233,0001.

The decrease on the year is 317,5121. ; the
increase 1,343,9941.; making, as we have said, the
wet Mariam 1,028,4821.

The number of men included in the estimates for
the fleet this year is 34,000 officers, seamen, and
boys-2,000 oificert, 8114g100, and boy. to be em•
ployed in surveying, troop, sod store ships; 2,000
boys for training ships, 8,100 seamen and boys for
the oosstguard service-4,100 of whom are to be
employed afloat, and 4,000 on shore.

The number of marines to be voted is 18,000—.
viz., 12,000 for service afloat, and 6,000 on shore.
The civilians for coastguard service will number
1,400, mean% the total fore. in fleet and coastguard
Barrios for the yean 1860-61, 86,300.

THE unanimity of opinion expressed by the House
of Lords on the subject of the supposed annexation
of Savoy is too significant to be mistaken. The
dismission seems to have comprised every variety of
Mae, and to have combined every hoe of 'Wearing,
from the cautious and mild language of Lord OUR-
VILLZ to the fervid denuociatiori of I.ord littansa-
BURY. It is remarkable, however, that no diatin-
guishable trams of party feeling are apparent
throughout a debate of nearly four hoar.' duration,
one in which many of the most promuient politicians
tithe Upper House took part, although upon the eve
ofanexpected struggle is the Lower House of absorb-
ing parry interest. It is certainly creditable to the
Peers that their predominant sense of national
dignity and duty prompted them, amend all, to take
a course of frank dissuasion rather than of factious
or embittered taunt. From first to last no word was
spoken that could be ocoustrued into offence or me-
awe. Even Lord NOIIIANET for once laid aside his
habitual peevishness, and introduced the motion of
which he had given notice Is a brief statement of
what were indeed fears rather than facts, but
a statement from which was carefully excluded
all the bitterness Mewls the favourite objecta
of bis aversion abroad with which we hays of
late become unfortunately 1 usiliar. And generally
It is a good onus we think that so speaker, however
earnest in his deprecation of the abeerrion of Savoy
into the French Empire, forgot to declare his una-