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Sir John Bay, one of the Lords of the Admi-
ralty, who is a candidate for re-election at Stamford,
addressed a large meeting at the George Hotel on Friday
evening. The hon. baronet first referred to the salient
points of our foreign policy when the conservatives took
office in the spring of 1866 and these he thus summarised:
-Denmark,-betrayed and bleeding; Prussia, arrogant
and victorious ; Austria, humbled and distrustful ; the
United States, irritated and threatening • an envoy in
chains in Abyssinia; Spain, insolent said revengeful;
Briar 1, justly aggrieved. He contrasted this description
with the manner in which Lord Stanley had conducted
our foreign affairs, and said that two years of conserva-
tive administration had helped to restore credit and
the public revenue, which had been deprived of its elasti-
city by Mr. Gladstone's finance and Lord Westbury's legis-
lation. After glancing at the Irish church question, Sir John
made a statement relating to the extra expenditure for the
navy. On this point he said : We found on coming
into office that our great ally, France, had six ironclad*
more than we had. We decided at once to redress the
balance, and commenced forthwith to complete our navy.
But ironclad* are not the sole necessity for anavy, and
especially for us. ,;They are costly, draw much water,
and require numerous crews. We require, for the protec-
tion of our commerce, small gun-vessels, which, with light
draught and few men, shall maintain inexpenaively a
police in all those seas in which our interest or our treaty
engagements oblige us to do so. We decided to build 18.
These duties are performed by a small class of
gunboat, and gunboats had been stationed by our prede-
cessors to perform these duties. In China and Japan
there are twenty-three treaty ports. Our predecessors
determined to place there thirty-eight vessels. Of these,
when we came into office, many were rotten, and there
was not one at home to relieve them. On the West Coast
of Africa a squadron is maintained for the suppression of
the slave trade, but it is a deadly service. It has been
shown that for one or two years a European cowditution
gaffers little permanently by being in that climate.
We found ships and men who had been there for four
years, and not a ship to relieve them. All over the world
we found rotten ships, and in the home ports no
'chefs. Since that we have reduced the squalroos
considerably, and on the West Coast have arraturei that
no English seaman shall be exposed to that pestilential
climate for mese than eighteen month+. We also
found that the United States were building very
fast unarmoured frigates, of a class of which we had
not one. We determined to build one, the Volage, as an
experiment, and a type for our frigate navy. In thaw
items you have the whole of tLe so-called extravagant
expenditure:

1867.018. 1886-417.
Bulls of armour.phtted e•-•otrit, t iroOmo 180,00)
}or engines W. 400 114,001
Laginiv of tkelayard built amour-plated %laps 109,116 woo)
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Eight ictupopite gunboat.'
Ten ditto luiltling in dockyard,' . . 130,001.1 . .

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Here you have, gentlemen, the half-million of extrava-
gance with which we are charged; and I venture to say
we should have deserved impeachment if we had not M-
et/114d it. (Cheers.) Now you see that the whole of this
expenditure, to which no considerable section of parlia-
ment attempted to object, was rendered absolutely nem,-
eery by the culpable neglect of our predecessors. (Hear,
hear.) In the dockyards we have effected considerable
economies. We round the harbours encumbered
with old wooden ships feisty supposed to add to
the national strength. Few of them could have been
made ready for ma without an expenditure of *OOOl.
or 40,0001. Well, we have sold or broken up sixty-one of
them, large and small. Each of them cost about 1,0001.
• year to maintain, and you would have been well rid of
them for nothing. But in addition to this saving of
about 60,0001. • year, we have carried no inconsiderable
sum to the exchequer. Much has been said about the
extravagance of selling a ship for a small sum and buy-
ing back the copper. But you must remember that in
this there is no loss. If your dockyards have space
and hands to spare, by all means break them up in the
dockyards. But we were obliged to get rid of these
encumbrances. The ships were not seaworthy, many of
them. They were sold to ship-breakers, who obtained
the old timber for themselves and some of the useless
stores, but resold the old copper to the country at the price
of old copper, which being rolled in the metal mills at
Chatham, was sold for 172,1441. for the benefit of the
country. Of old ships our predecessors sold in 1865-66,
13,2641. lu 1866-b7, we sold 61,380/. ; and 1867-68,
72,8301. Instead, therefore, of devoting the labour of oar
dockyards to the useless repair of wooden vessels of
an old type, it was devoted to completing such
wooden ships as were necessary in time of peace,
whilst at the same time continuing with increased activity
the completion of our iron-clad fleet in our dockyards,
building, fitting, and repairing, for no grater expense, in
our dockyards than had been incurred by our predecessors.
(Cheers.) And now, gentlemen, our hostile critics, who
have bad the audacity to charge us with extravagance,
must cutely blush when they know that not only is the
navy more efficient than it has ever been, but that in
every other particular but the building of necessary iron
ships, now nearly completed, have Ni ..paved the way for
gnat economy. (Cheers.) Deptford k yard is about to be
closed. We have reduced the marines ; we have redwood
the entry of officers into the navy. In one WAYS alone
—the paymasters, which is confided to my care—l found'
my predecessors entering 64 a year. I have only entered
16 a year, and find it enough for the requirements of
the service. Nor have we, at the same time with a due
regard to economy, neglected the claims of old officers,
though I, for my part would gladly have wished that
the finances of the country would have enabled us to be
even more liberal. But we must remember the taxpayer,
and be just before we are generous. One class lame--
whose claim I have frequently advocated the reserved
captains—dud their case scrutinised with the most
careful eye. We found that one-half of them—
nearly forty—had been unjustly kept from their proper
rank and pay. We at once restored them to their proper
position ; and though I much regret that a few of my
old friends have failed to establish alike claim, yet every-
thing in our power is done to ameliorate their position.
And now as regards our fleet abroad : when we some into
oftooqe, the fiag of Spain had posed round the world in an
the Numancia ; on none of our distant stations
had one of ours been seen. Now the Zealous in the Pacific,
the Royal Alfred in North America, the Ocean in China,
attest the might and majesty of England. (Chests.)
In the Mediterranean the wooden three-decker has
been recalled which was there as a and
the flag of the admiral flies in un ironclad, -whilst the
heavy ships of his squadron are all of that type. At
home en iron-thel fleet guards your shores, and will do
more to defend them than all the boasted fortifiestions
of Mr. Gladstone. And now having obtained whet you
wish—efficiency in men, and guns, and ships—you may
look forward to no further increase, but rather lo a gra-
dual reduetiou. Indeed, were it not for the dockyard
extension, for which our prodoceasors are liable, we might
at least save 1,000,00 W. a-year, and you may be sum that
the reductions we have so earefelly commenced will lead
to permanent saving. (Cheers.)

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MADRID, Nov. 14, Reverse.
The manifesto of the joint electoral committee
formed by the fusion of the three factions of the
liberal party has been published to-day. It
pronounces m favour of all the liberal ideas pro-
claimed by the revolutionary juntas, and
especially in favour of religious freedom,
adding that the revolution must consecrate and
guarantee for all time the principle of •oom-
plate liberty of conscience. The passage relativt
to the future form of government says
" The monarchical form is imposed upon
us by the exigencies of the revolution,
Mad she iwsweity of owtselideitheor the liberties we
have acquired. Monarchy by divine right is for
ever dead. Our future monarchy, in deriving its
origin from popular rights, will be a consecration
of universal suffrage. It will symbolise the
national sovereignty, and consolidate public
liberty—the right of the people being superior
to all institutions and powers. This monarchy,
surrounded by democratic institutions, cannot fail
to be popular. The maniksito concludes by stating
that the liberals will respect all the laws enacted
by the Constituent Cortes.
MADRID, Nov 15
_ _

A great and enthusiastic monarchicafaud demo-
cratic meeting, called by those who signed the
manifesto of the electoral committee, was held to-
day in the court-yard of the palace. 50,000 per-
sons assembled. Perfect unanimity and order
prevailed, though no police were present, and the
demonstration is considered to have been the most
imposing affair of the kind ever witnessed in
Madrid. At the conclusion of the meeting
a procession walked through the principal
streets, with banners inscribed with liberal
mottoes, and accompanied by bands playing the
hymn to liberty.

RUSSIA.
BT. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14.
The second sitting of the Conference, which is
deliberating upon the proposal to limit the use of
explosive misailm in war, was held yesterday.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 14.

The Prase of to-day, referring to the denial
given by the Paris papers to its statement that
negotiations are pending for the revision of the
treaty of Paris, says :—" We admit that it is not a
revision, but an authentic interpretation of the
treaty of Paris, in as far as relates to the
Danubian principalities, is intended. This inter-
pretation is to be embodied in an additional
protocol to the treaty."

VIENNA, Nov. 14, Ems's°.
The Emperor has addressed an autograph
letter to the Chancellor of the Empire, Baron
Beast, in which it is ordered that henceforth
the title of the Emperor in treaties with foreign
powers shall be Emperor of Austria, King of
Bohemia, &e., and Apostolic King of Hungary
in the text of these treaties the abbreviated form,
Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of
Hungary, will be used, and his Majesty will then
be Telma of as his Majesty the Emperor and King,
or his Imperial and Royal Apostoho Majesty. It
is further ordered that the whole of the royal and
other provinces shall be designated alternatively
as the Austro-Hungarian monarchy or the Austro-
Hungarian state (Reich).

ROUMANIA.
BIICHARIMT, Nov. 11.

The Turkish Government has withdrawn the
embargo lately laid upon a yawl which was
about to pan the %line, laden with powder
for Roumania.

EARTHQUAKE AT BUCHAREST.
BUCHAREST, Nov. 13, Ego.
A violent shock of earthquake was felt hero at
9 o'clock this morning.

PORTUGAL.

_ _
LISBON Nov. 14.
It is announced that the cabinet of St. James's
has given entire satisfaction to the Portuguese
government by disavowing the conduct of the
English at Sierra Leone.

MALTA.

VALETTA, Nov. 14.

The Zeus, the wreck of which has ixXMin-
flounced, is breaking up. The ship was sold yes-
terday for 1661., and the cargo for 1751. Her
Majesty's ship.; Lord Warden and Aretbusa arrived
from Palermo on Thursday, and the Trinculo to-
day from Crete. Vioe-Adxsiral Lord Clarence
Paget is expected here on Tuesday next.

By the arrival of the above mails we have ad-
vice. hoes Bombay to Oct. 24 ; Madras, Oct. 19 ; Cal-
cutta, Oct. 19 ; Ceylon, Oct. 17 ; Hong Kong, Oct.
2, &c.
The expedition under Brigadier Wilde, lute the
Iluesunzje country bus been attended with complete
'access. Up to the 9th October the British loss only
amounted to five men killed and thirty wounded.
The Timers of ',dui says that the districts of Ineta in
which during the ensuing season famine, more or lass,
must prevail, owing to the deficient rainfall, comprise an
"110111101111 tract of country—from Mount Aboo N.E. to
Agi a, westward to the borders of Scinde, and eastward
over the Aravelli range into Meywar and Odeypoor.
Ecarcity is also expected in the Punjaub. and towards
Central India. Although nearly the whole of Upper
India has suffered greatly from drought during the p eat
year, a most unusual quantity of rain, 91) inches, fell in
Calcutta. _ _

The Bombay Gazette says:—" We arc glad to state that
government have determined to give no further aid to
Synd Selina, the Imam—we may now call him the late
Imam—of Muacat He has now fled, and though he 'poke
of trying to regain his throne, we may consider it pretty
certain that he will no longer be ruler of Muscat. Synd
Teatime, uncle of Synd Selina, and leader of the preinous
rebellion—at present, we may add, re.ident in Bombay
is perhaps, the rightful claimant, but government, very
Wisely, does not mean to interfere in the slightest with
the choice of the people."
It is said that the government of India repose to enrol
all such European railway employes in India as may be
willing to Joan as volunteers for the protection of railway
stations, and for_ general purposes of defence.
The Calcutta Inglightnaa says that the claim of the ca-
King of Oudh to increased allowanose has been
disal-
lowed by the government, on the ground that he is to
blame for the events which rendered it impossible to col-
lect the revenue in Oudh in 1847.

THE REV. NEWMAN HALL ON THE DUTY OF
F.hzeroes.— At Surrey, Chapel, yesterday moruing, the
Rev. Newman Hall referred to the importance of Chris-
tians showing their piety, not by withdrawing from their
duty as citizens in the approachmc election, but by per-
forming those duties religiously. For the time being, the
electors were " the powers that be which are ordained
of God," and equally with magistrates and princes were
to exercise the functions of their office as " God's minis-
ters." Religion prepared men for Heaven by training
them in tie right performance of the lower duties of earth.
He could scarcely be regarded as benevolent who took uo
interest in public questions affecting the well-being of a
whole nation. Christian electors should conscientiously
try to ascertain who amongst the candidates were
most likely to promote the public welfare, and
to vote accordingly, and not from considerations
of friendship, rank, or personal advantage. The
approaching election was one in which religion was
specially Fixed up with politics. It was not
it. They
won-
dered at if the clergy took an earnest part in They ,
did not cease to be citizens when they became ministers ;
and when religion was intimately, connected with a poli-
tical
contest, they were to bo justified if in a proper spirit
they advocated their conscientious views. Ho hoped
all contest proteetanta would be faithful to their
convictiens at this important crisis, and do their utmost
to promote a system of legislation which would usher in a
new day for Ireland, wherein the church, no longer having
to contend against the prejudicescreated by inyudice, and
no longer fettered and weakened by alliance with and de-
pendence upon the state, would male peaceful and happy
progrees, and Ireland become more tranquil, more loyal,
mote protestant, and thus more truly free and prosperous.
TnE NEW BISHOPS.—The ceremony of confirm-
ing the election of the Very Rev. W. C. Magee, Dean of
Cork, to the hisherie of Peterborough, took place
Faturda morning at the pariah church of St. Mary-I:
Bow, The coeseerstion of the Bishop of '
place am:,
a. also of the Bishop of Barbadoes took
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pdarkingids.
Whitehall. There
was an intention that tie Hon. Royal
IL who
has been nenehealed to the biehopria of UT,
should be coasemolsd at the same time, bat it is said that
there was scam delay in preparing the legal documents.
Nothing tranwhel ta rd to the oossecration of
Ilr. Ifamaels, taw hos been agpeiated Bishop of Pieter-
maritzburg, fa is limbos d -Natal, or of Yr. 'Turner,
who has ben Mktg ef Grafton and Armidale
(New South W ), he oloa to the Right Rev. Dr.
G who was metortuaitsly drow. Dr.
the nrattan,
ew Bishop of Pat, willned be en in
his cathedral in the comes of slew days, and will maw-
ddioceseiately afterwards enter upon the active duties of his

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PitorosED BANtirET AT BRIGHTON TO Mt
AMERICAN Minurrea.—On Friday last an influentially
attended meeting was held at the Town-hall, Brighton, in
order to carry out a desire that as the American samider
the Hon. Iteverdy Johnson, will shortly be the guest, in
Brighton, of Mr. George Peabody, they both should be
invited to a public banquet. The meeting was called by
the Mayor. and was attended not only by members of
the cot potation and local clergy, but included represents-
tives of the visiting, resident, professional, and trading
classes. The proceedings were most unanimous. A de-
putation was appointed to present the invitation, and it
Las been accepted by both his excellency and Mr. Peabody,
the latter doing so as an exceptional cmcamstance. The
banquet will take place on Saturday next.
SINGULAR CILUIGE of ELFA.-noN LIBEL.—On
Saturday
.last, at the Ashby-de-la-7.oucti (Leicestershire)
jetty sessions, a singular libel case, arising out of election
mattes in South Derbyshire, was brought under the
notice of the magistrates. Mr. Henry Wardle, a member
of the fiim of Meters. Felt and Co.. brewers, Burton-on-
Tient, am rand on a summons taken out on behalf of
Mr. Thorium Denscuport, an auction and estate agent at
Ashby-de-la-7cs.ch, who charged him with unlawfully and
maliciously publishing a certain defamatory libel of and
concerning the complainant, on the :teak of October. Mr.
Motterani, fur the prosecution, amid his client held several
initial tent offices in the district, including surveyor to the
highway and clerk to the board of guardians, and
at the present time was chairman of the liberal committee
for the Button district of the South Derbyshire elo•tion.
Of course, in the prceecutor's position as surveyor of the
highway. he had many working men to engage and direct.
On the I;th ictober the following letter was reeeived and
°Fined by one of Mr. Dcarenport s partners:—" William
and Charles Hare, on the Gresley list, tell one of our
canvassers that they are liberals, but it is evident they
refuse to promise their votes, lest you should be dis-
pleased. N%-ii have assured theta that you would never
wish to we undue intluence, more especially as they are
employed by you in public capacity as surveyor of eke
road. If you would kindly give me a letter
the effect, the men may then please themselves."
The prosecutor was in London at the time, and therefore
did not reply to it, but on the 26th the following was again
received:—"l fear my letter of the 16th escaped atten-
tion. Kindly reply.' To To these letters the prosecutor
wrote as follows :—" Yours of the 16th instant retched
hero when I was away from home. I now beg to inform
you that Charles and William Hare have promised their
votes some time since, and from the opinion of the cha-
racters of the two men, they will not be induced to vets
contrary to that premise." On the 30th Mr. Deavenport
received the following :—‘• I am in receipt of your favour
of the 28th instant. In the course of my short canvassing
career, I never endeayouredto persuade any man to break his
, nor have I any intention of attempting it with
arles and William Hare. When I wrote You on the 16th
they had not promised, nor as liberals did they wish to pro-
mise, to vote for Greeley and Smith, but I beheveyou have
asked them since that date, and therefore used the in-
fluence which you, as a public servant, mums over them
to induce them to vote contrary to their own principles."
At the latter letter the prosecutor felt doubly grieves 4
inasmuch us he bad never teen or spoken to the two men
about their votes, and ho placed the matter in the
hands of his solicitor. Mr. Straight, for the defines,
urged that the last sentence in the third epistle did not
constitute a libel, and while admitting that the letter was
not written with the most discretion, yet submitted there
was no offence. After an ineffectual attempt had bsmi made
to compromise the affair, the bench committed the defen-
dant for trial at the amires. . _

PRINTEItte ALMEGIOUPER.—We understand the
journeymen portion of the printing profession are supple-
menting the libend contributions of the master printers,
authors. and others interested in literature, by sending
round their offices solicitation lists for subscription;
towards completing the 1,000 guineas required to erect the
celebration wing, before the 2,000/. bequeathed by
the late Mr. Henry Wright can be made available
for building the remaining wing. Upwards of 500
guineas towards the 1,000 have *heady been subscribed,
and if a vigorous effort is now made, the desired object
will shortly. be accomplished. The almshouses are now
fully occupleA, hence the necessity for providing additional
room to admit those who are now making application to
become inmates. Subscriptions (which are urgently
needed) will be thankfully received by the collector, Mr.
C. rope, 14, Deibi-stm•et, Argyle-square, W.C.
TIE LORD KWTORSIIIP OF EDINBURGH trin-
vssurr.—The election of a Lord Rector for Edinburgh
University In room of Mr. Carlyle, whose term of aka
has aradreil, took place on Satuuky. The students, who
form e constituency, brought three candidates to the
via :—Mr. James YoureilL Yr. Ruskin, and Mr.
Robert Lowe. The polling took place between eleven and
one o'deck, but Mr. LOWes name was withdrawn by his
oomasithee about a quarter put eleven, after he lad
=0 votes. At the does the result of the poll wee
to be as follows:—For Mr. Monereiff, to ; for
Mr. Ruskin, 426—majority far Mr. bfauereit 182. The
students, is the course of the polling, amused themselves by
throwing ppeeaa.e and flour at each other. There were one
or two unfits, but none of them serious.
FIRE IN THE LIVIRPOOL-ROAD. Yeatarafg.
about half-peat sae-clock, emu alarm was mead in
neighbourhood of the Li -road, IsitrXrkotig=
sequence of an outbreak of ire tbe
longing to the chapel of ease situate in that road. The
lower schoolroom was nearly burned out and the awe oiq
it delimited.
VOLUNTERRS FOR THE Port. —Bowl, Nov. It.
—Peaty Dutch and Belgian volunteers for the Papal away
have attired here.

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