The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MEOWING, APRIL 17,

cumion on naval affairs was ID several respects
unusually interesting and improving. 'We cannot
expect Sir CIRRUS NAPIER to WEIR always eminei
aims now to say on so old a subject, but we con
i.e. we can make large allowances tor iteration go

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the theme of how the money goes in the dock-
yards, on the conversion of sailing ships, the
alteration of bows and items, the use of green
timber, the want of petty officers and youngsters
in the fleet, the means of preserving discipline
without flogging. The importance of paying petty
officers well, and of improving their position in
the service, can hardly be exaggerated, for
it is the petty officers who keep up disci-
pline among the men. Then as to punish-
ment, what do the recent mutinous out-
breaks teach us 1 Certainly not that existing disci-
pline is too strict, still less that punishment can be
dispensed with ; but rather that punishment should
in no case be capricious, bat that wherever
deserved, it should be certain and severe. The
bounty system haa, we fear, in some degree
demoralised the service ; the men are beginning to
put a bounty vase on their services, and the
disposition to make things pleasant is not un-
attended with disadvantages is a Channel squadron
in time of peace. The want of midshipmen is
another difficulty just now ; why not meet it by
throwing open the service to competition t At
present the most national of our services is as close'
as the rottenest borough ; there- would be no Lek
of candidates for naval cadetships if,
the spirited lads in England who take is the MS
as naturally as chocklingeto a pond, were permitted
to compete for the howlers of her Mituserr's
quarter-deck. The case of the post-captains on
the reserved list, brought forward by Sir J.
ELIVINSTONE again last night, is, we fear, a diffi-
culty always lately to recur, but it is one which
the country would desire to see solved at all times
in the most generous spirit. From officer* and
men to anchors is one of those sant transitions
which occur in naval discusiona, and Mr. LIMIAT
did good Berries by exposing the- differeme
of prices paid by the Navy and the Merchant set,
vice. It is not is anchors alone that this differ-
ence is manifest. In engines, for instance, and in
the wear and tear of machinery, to compare the
great expenditure of mercantile companies with
that of the Navy would be instrustive and
startling. Another very sera* menial of nasal
expenditure was started by Mr. linistar in one of
those admirably complete and enhaustim state-
ments which always give us an idea of a model
member of Parliament, as• idea not even
to be conceived in any other country then
our own. Mr. Ham* addressed himself to the
question of the supply and quality of timber in
the dockgrards, and, fortified with an array of care-
fully studied figures, he proved to demonstration.,
with an easy power which the oldest Sea Lori
might envy, that the amply of timber deemed
sufficient by the Admiralty is grossly inadequate
even to the ordinary demand. of the service, and
that the finality of the imber employed in
the yards is so unseasoned that it en-
tails an monsions and incoming expeeditere
to keep eras the ships in ordinary in a taus*
sound state of proserration. Mr. Bata= hes, we
believe, laid his finger on the trim seat of that de-
vouring malady of consumption which preys on
the vitals of our naval strength. How is if that
France, which forty years ago had scarcely any
fleet at all, and which within the present
century has almost despaired of ever being a
naval power again, iu 1800 is foetid to
have transformed one fleet of lira-of-battle ships
and created another—not to speak of frigates, of
gunboats, of transport% of non-plated steam
rams—and all with resocirese immeasurably
inferior to ours, at less than half our
cost ? France, no doubt, is pm-eminent
'-;strative genius, and in her capacity for

A deputation from Manchester, consisting of Mr. Thomas
Baxley, M.P., Mr. Jas. Aspinall Turner, M.P., Mr. Mannar'
Potter (president of the Manchester Chamber at Com-
merce), Mr. Malcolm Roes (viee.prcsßent), Mr. John
Cheetham, Mr. Henry Ashworth, and Mr. John render,
had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gases
yesterday, at the ogles of the Board of Trade. Mr. Cobden
was present at the interview.
A deputation from the Birmingham Chamber of Com-
merce had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson. The deputation consisted of Mr. &thole-
held, M.P., Mr. W. G. Foster, M.P., Mr. G. A. Everitt,
and Mr. C. H. Wagner. Mr. Cobden was present at the
Interview.

A deputation from the Leeda Chamber of Commerce, oon-
slating of Mr. Darnton Lupton.. president ; Mr. John °c-
hains Butler, irimmairter engmeer ; Mr. Junes Kitson,
lronmaster and engineer; Mr. Thomas Lawson, flax machine
maker; Mr. Edward urtsburg, woollen cloth merchant;
and Mr. John Wilkinson, jun., felt manufacturer, had an
interview yestenlav with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Cobden was pm-
lent at the interview.

A deputation from Sheffield had aa interview with the
Right Bon. T. !Clime Moon yesterday. The deputation
sr minted of Mr. J. Jobeoe Smith, president of the Clamber of
Commerce ; Mr. Robert Jack.on, mealier cutler ; Mr. W.F.
Dixon, J.P.; Mr. Thomas Jeri% Alderman W. A. Mat.
thews, and tkunimllor B. J. Eyre. Mr. Cobden wee Foment
at the interview.

Viscount Palxneraton arrived in town yesterday from
Beseket Hall.

Despatches were received et the Cdonial•oftioe yesterday
from the Governors of the North American Provinces,
Heitgelandousti the settlements on the West Coast of
• Africa.

wise sent to the Governors of the West
Indies and British Columbia.

His Zxeellene► the Sardinian mines; to
town to-day, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Pal-
merston at Btocket Hall.

The Duke and Duchene of Hamilton and family
win rater! to Hamilton Home to-morrow, from Paris.

The Marquis of Salisbury came t& town yester-
day from Liverpool, and left in the afternoon for Hatfield.
Her ladyship will return to London on Thunelay. from
wading the Earl and Counteao Delawarr at Buckhurst
lark, Sussex.

The Earl and Couuteaa of Dalkeitla are expected
in town on Thunday, Crum Boughton House, Northamp-
tonshire.

The Couotees of Kiunonl's soirfes ciamowades will
tate► plata on licaulay, the 30t,1t instaat, and sa Monday,
the-nit et May.

The Earl and Counteaa of Eglinton have returned
to Gritlittio Clans(lea Hotel, Albemarle-otreot.

Viecount and Viscountess Emlyn have left Gol-
den Grove,. South Wales, ter Werlesley, Huntingdonshire,
oa a visit to the Hors Octavins and lady Caroline Dun-
iombs.

' Lord laveneworth and family have arrived at
his lordship's residence, Percy -.-nos, Fufascre, from Ravens-
worth Guide.

The Raw Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stoner arrived
in Hortfoodrtreet, yesitenisy, fur the moor, from Weser
Pans, Oxfordshire.

Sir William and Lady Joni& arrived at their
residence o Stsattsdratzeat, yesterday, froai Metatiaam
Rome, Reigate, for the seamen.

Lady Ntre gave birth to a daughter at ST, Port-
land-place at Sunday.

Vice-Admiral H. W. Bruce,
at Portsineuth, with Major-General S. R. Wesley, Deputy
Adjutant-General of the Marine Reyes, yesterday con-
cluded their inquiry relative to the late disturbance on
board the Edgar, at tipitheed. The report of the inquiry
will be forwarded to the Admiralty.

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Yesterday week their Royal Hig!memos the
Prince de Joinerlle and the Due d'Aemale prided over
• stunptwoun breakfast given by them at Esher, to the far-
mer. who have permitted them to hunt over their grounds
daring the season. Fifty sat down to the repast, and the
health of their royal highnesses was proposed sad drunk in ski
Beeish style, with them times three. They returned thanks
sad expressed a hope that they should all meet in the mese
tray next year. At one o'clock the deer was turned out at
Little Heath, and some good sport was obtained. The deer
was taken to Harbrook Farm. There ins a great num-
, beard people at the meet.

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construction and organisation; but how is it that,
not being exclusively a naval power, she has over-
taken and almost left the greatest naval power in
the world in the lurch 1 These are net questions
to be asked in any invidiouaor hostile spirit. We
may honestly admire the energy and spirit of
the naval administration of our mighbours, but
what are we to think of our own 1

Sir Hugh Cairn, in committee on Bleaching and
Dyeing Web Bill, will more amendments exempting from
the operation of the bill works in which the occupation of
bleaching or dyeing linen, yarn, and cambric only is car-
ried mt.

Mr. Selwyn, on the motion for the second reading
of Ecelesiaatical Commission, &c., Ha, will moose that it
be reed a second time upon this day six months.

In Committee on Representation of the People
Bill Mr. Ingram intends to move a those to the following
effect:—" Every male person of fall re, and not subject to
any legal incapacity, having been a resident for three year;
or upwards within a city or borough returning a member r
members to serve in parliament shall, if duly registered, be
entitled to rota in the election at a member or member' bo
serve in parliament for such city or borough : provided
always, that so such person shall be so registered in any
year unless be shall have so resided for twelve calendar
mouths test previous to the last day of July in such year."

Ors Parliamentary report records that last
night Mr. %Livia's, the member for Salford, gave ,
notice that, after the second reading of the Re- •
form Bill, he should move that the meamre be
referred to • Select Committee. Mr. MASSZY, who
described himself in a recent debate as a iaan who
likes to feel his way in politica, has doubtless not
resolved to invite the House of Commons to refuse
to legislate on Reform this session—for that and
nothing less is the meaning of his motion—with-
out satisfying himself as to the extent of support
he may expect. We are called, therefore, to
regard him now as the volunteer leader of more
or fewer reactionary members of the Liberal party.
The hon. member for Salford has a very intimate
acquaintance with the forms of Parliamentary pro-
cedure, and he has selected that one which unites
the greatest power of obstruction with the least
show of antagonism. Nevertheless no one will mis-
understand the true character of his proposition. If
amendment, and not resistance, to the Reform
Bill were desired, how easy it would be to propose
specific improvements in the course of the discus-
sion•of that measure. The subject which it is pro-
posed to shelve by consigning it to a Select
( ommittee is the very one on which every mem
ber having a seat in the House of Commons was
first questioned by his constituency—the very ono
which lies at the root of the distinction of parties
—the one on which, if on no other, every intelligent
man in the kingdom has formed his ol3tion. To
hiii :Jr iiancling oiler to s iielect Committee
a demand which has sprung out of the self-con-
sciousness of the nation, and which rests on the
broadest considerations of constitutional policy, is
a mark of political effeminacy and degeneration
not to be thought of without concern. If the
Government Reform Bill is unnecessary and mis-
chievous, let those who think so have the honesty
to say it, and vote accordingly. If to admit one
artisan in ten to the exercise of the elective
franchise will ruin the constitution, let it be vigo•
rowdy opposed. That is a course which would
command respect. If honourable members whose
return was a protest against the inadequacy
of the Reform Bill of the late Govern-
ment have changed their minds, and now
perceive that Reform is not wanted by
the country, let them not conceal their new
light, but frankly acknowledge their mistake.
But, by the respect which hon. members owe to
the Liberal constituencies which have returned
them and to the non-electors who have trusted in
them, we beg of honourable members that we may
hare no more playing fast and loose on the most
important business that can occupy the attention
of a Legislature.

INSTALLATION OP MR. GLADSTONE AT
EDINBURGE.

The installation of Mr. Gladatone m rector of
the Edinburgh University, took place yesterday in the
Music Hall of that city with considerable ceremony, and in
presence of a large body of students, together with sash of
the general public as were fortunate enough to secure
tiokets of admission. Vice-Chancellor and Principal Sir
David Brewster, by virtue of his office, presided on the
occasion, and the Divinity Professor opened the proceed.
iop by prayer. _

In accordance with a resolution agreed to by the Senates,
the honorary degree of LLD. wee then conferred on the
following men distinguished in science and literature :—The
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. the Lord
Justice-General, the Hon. Lord Meares, the Solicitor-Gene-
ral, the Very Rev. Dean Ramsay, Principal Forbes, and
the Rev. H. L Hansel, Professor of Moral nod Metsphy-
ideal Philosophy, Orford.
Mr. David HA, who represented the students, then for-
mally preeented the uewly installed rector to the Vice.
Chancellor.

These rfaliminarioe e,"!fict through, the right hon.
genilentin tdoutintand his inaugural widens. lie com-
menced by stating that he meant to speak to the assembled
students of the work of the university as a great organ
of preparation for after life, with the view of assist
ing them in arming themselves for the efforts and
trials of their future career. It was, he said, a broad
and universal canon that every generation of men, as they
traversed the vale of life, accumulated new treasure. for
the race. No small part of that treasure was stored, and
no small part of that work was performed by university
men, who had been entitled to rank among the greater
lights and the glories of Christendom. He described the
work of the university as covering the whole field of
knowledge, human and divine ; the whole field of nature
and of it. powers ; the whole field of time in binding
together successive generations as they passed in the pro-
secution of the common destiny, aiding each to sow its
seed, and to reap its proper harvest from what
proper been sown before, storing up, into its own treasure
house, the spoils of every new venture in the domain
of mental enterprise, and ever binding the present to
pay over to the future at least an acknowledgment
of the debt. The universities were to knowledge
and mental freedom what the castle was to the feudal
larva—what the guild was to the infant middle classes.
Universities were a great mediating power between the
high and the low, the old and the Dew, between the specu-
lative and active, between authority and freedom. In
countries which enjoy political liberty, the universities
were usually firm supports of the established order of
things • but in countries under absolute government, they
acquired a bias towards innovation. After some remarks
on the proper work of universities, Mr. Gladstone noticed
the dicilties attending the question how far endowments
for education were desirable, urging upon students and
teachers the duty of bestirring themselves in their own
persons to refute the charge that endowments or univer-
sities gravitated towards torpor as their natural termini'.
tion. He then impressed upon the students the im.
portance odic he acquisition of knowledge whnh
The ceremony of laying the foundation atone of would be tly serviceable to them in their several
• new church at Maidatoue, about to be erected by the I professions, and the value and the study of ancient liters.
Earl of Roam.e, in the /tote :ark tuck
Saturday Sere as affording the moat intellectual training. As to the
Lot.t Amongtythose pr.t
were, t place
nobi.
earl,
Loaf
utat=lisdr.aiom in which
nthetuezttudbents should puresuedierri.
Mt...slum, the Ladies Marrhani, sad the Hon. Robert up-ra the amuse,ty, and myrtle r his Uate..:mrlul loud
u.nheht. the Rev atr liasend.de, and the architect, Mr. and general app he address having lasted nearly an
illardford. hour and s half in the delivery.

LAiST INTELLIGENCE.
THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

(nost ocnt OWN con*aeeosntir.►
NAPLIK Aram 10.

intelligence alleged to have arrived here yes-
terday states that the fighting continued on
Sunday night outside the gates of Palermo with
great vigour, and that Bagaria, Murreak, and
Coils were the principal points of action. Letters
Iwere said to have beak found compromising
some of the first families of Sicily, and a great deal
of money, it is said, had fallen into the hands of
' government. A gentleman, however, whts arrived
last Friday, considers that the affair is nearly over,
that it had been premature, and had been urged
on by the police, whilst the more respectable and
sounder-thinking portion of the community had
been averse to any movement, on the ground of
its being certain to fail. We must look, however, to
facts rather than to opinions. According to this gen-
tleman there had been hard fighting near the monas-
tery in the Piazza Mariana and the Palazzo Zka.
Four monks fell fighting, and twenty were taken
out and shot in front. He says he saw an abbess
and a nun dragged through the streets by soldiers,
who urged them on with their bayonets. They
' were in a fainting state, and had been guilty of
giving refuge to one of the compromised.
The Argus was at Palermo. The Orion left
Naples yesterday for Malta. She was under
sail. The Papal steamer the Immaoolata is in
port. All the stemma are taken up by the go-
vernment, so that the post does not leave to-day,
and I do not know when this will reach London.

Since writing the above, the French steamer from
Malta and Messina has arrived. I have scarcely
time to communicate the intelligence. Messina
rose on Sunday, the Bth instant ; but the insur-
gents had all taken to the country, or were
driven outside the walls. Sunday night passed
quietly ; the intention was to renew the
fight on Monday morning, but as the news got
abroad that the Palermo affair had been checked,
the intention was given up. All the youth of the
city turned out, and almost all are compromised.
Many persons amongst the soldiery, gendar-
mery, and citizens have been either killed or
wounded, but the numbers were not known. The
aspect of the city was as tins' te as it
could well be, and the population were
in a state of consternation. I believe that
the whole of Sicily is heaving, and that though the
Neapolitans, who show themselves a nation of
" Canaglia," have not uttered even a cry, they are
not less impatient of the oppression from which they
have been so long suffering. I have just passed the
Arsenal, where the greatest activity prevails.
Great quantities of forage were being taken in, and
artillery and troops are being sent cell

r (antra's TZLEGRAIL " woe
room • MARSEILLES. TIIIGISDAY.
tj The' direct steamer from Naples arrived itbis
evening, and brings advices from that city.to the
14th instant.

It is asserted that on Thursday last a large bomb
was thrown before the palace. The explosion
shattered all the windows. No person was
injured.
The revolutionary attempt of the Bth at Messina
commenced by the killing of two sentinels. The
movement was less serious than reported by the
passengers of the Meaudre, which remained a great
distance off the spot where the combat took place.
Flying columns were pursuing the bands of insur-
gents, who had taken refuge in the mountains.
4, It is positive that no preparation had been Rude
to pass the Roman frontier unless an attack were
made against Rome by Piedmont. Intelligence
from Rome adds that the Pope had resolved to
take no initiative in a war in the Romagna, and
that General Lamoricibre would only concentrate a
corps in Umbria, between Rome and Ancona.

NAPLES (rid Gm*, APRIL 12.

Aocording to advicee from Sicily, the revolution-
sul, movement is increasing in the country, which
is full of armed men.

The Royal Intendant, Celeste, has made common
cause with the revolutionists.

The 14th and 15th Regiments are being de-
spatolied from Naples to Sicily. Artillery and other
troops have been sent to the citadel of Messina.
A popular demonstration has taken place at
Arena in favour of Victor Emmanuel, in conse-
quence of which the town has been declared in a
state of siege.
Arrests have been made at Naples.