The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-06 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PEST% Jugs 5.
The address to the Emperor proposed by
M. Desk was to-day adopted in the Lower House
by a majority of three ; the voting being 156 for,
and 152 against, the address.

AMERICA. 6
LIVERPOOL, Jowl 5.
The Liverpool, New York, sad Philadelphia
Company's steamer City of Baltimore, which sailed
this afternoon for New York, took 161,4381. in
specie.

THE BRAZIL MAIL
110IITHAMPTON, Jove G.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Magdalena, with
the Brazil and River Plate mails, arrived off the
Needier at 11 a.m.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(NEON OUR OWN

PARIS, W■DNPiDAY Evnisc.

The Moonset- contains--in the form of a letter,
assumed to be written in London—the following
answer to Sir John Pakington's speech on the
French navy :

London, June 1.

sir John Pakington has again attempted to alarm the
I House of Commons about the maritime preparations of
France. There can be no doubt that he produced but little
impression ; but among the many statemeata he made, on
the authority of Admiral Elliot, there are three or four
priocipal points to be selected, which are in themselves suf-
ficient to allay the apprehension which Sir John took so
much trouble to excite. In the first place, if it be true that
France spends this year five millions sterling on her navy,
England will spend twelve. And, secondly, iron-eased vessels
of enormous dimensions do not "shoot up like mushrooms
in a spring morning "—to repeat the very phrase which has
been used. In the third place, the British Admiralty has
just decided that five ships of the line, now on the stocks
and in an advanced state, shall be covered with iron plates.
It must not be forgotten, moreover, that the number of
English ships of the line ready to put to sea is greater by
seventeen than that of all the ships of the same
class in all the Davies of the world put together.
In every point of view the state of the English fleet is far
from being so insignificant as Sir John Pakington is pleased
to aver. Although the speaker protested that his strictures
were prompted exclusively by feelings of patriotism, and
not by party spirit, one may be permitted to doubt whe.
ther the honourable member doe' not deceive himself.
There is no one in the whole tory party who delights more
than he does to resort to every description of perlianrentory
fantasia He never misses an opportunity of doing a service
to his party or of damaging his political adversaries. He
showed the same disposition when he was in office. Tho
eagerness with which he recounted everything that Admiral
Elliot told him coincides in a most remarkable manner with
the Oiliest! exigencies of the moment at which he spoke.
It was only on Tuesday morning that the admiral returned
to London from the mission which he had fulfilled in the
military ports of France, with the pemri■sion of the French
Minister of Marine ; and so early as Friday, Sir John was
prepared to lay before the house the result of his inqui-
ries. Now, the bill on the budget has not yet passed
the third reading, and the practical effect of the
measures which Sir John Pakington called for as a conse-
quence of his revelations would be to compel the govern-
ment to appropriate a considerable portion of the revenue
for additional expenses. It is, however, permissible to
suppose that Sir John Pakingtoo and his friends are no less
anxious to inspire the English public with a permanent fear
of the intentions of France, than to force the cabinet to
spend more than twelve millions for the navy in 1861-62.
Admiral Elliot is much blamed for having authorised Sir
John Pakington to make public use—if not for a political
purpose, at least in • way hostile to a good international
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understanding—of information which he owes to the con-
fiding courtesy of the Emperor's Minister of Marine. It is
observed that if an English admiral, after having visited
the military ports of France, felt it a duty to his country to
make certain statements, he should have gone to the
Queen's ministers, and not have sent his communi.
cation direct to parliament. No doubt circumstances
are conceivable in which a British naval officer, think-
ing his country in danger, might be eacusable for ap-
pealing to parliament from the apathy of an Admiralty neg-
lectful of its duties, and with that view for availing himself
of the voice of a leader of the opposition. But in the
present case Admiral Elliot did not in the first instance try
the effect of his observations on the Admiralty, which, by
the way, has just ordered five new iron-cased vessels to be
built. We must not therefore read Sir John Pakington's
alarmist speech in a literal moue, but mast underatand It

as • political manoeuvre, in reality quite foreign to any
French question, and meant to obtain a parliamentary re.
stilt. One fact which greatly strikes the reasoning part at
the public in England is, that France has so rapidly created
a great naval force with a budget seven millions sterling
less than that of England. It is asked where this mule.
tion in expense is to stop if we are to give way to par.
liamentary orators and suspicious admirals? Such are the
reflections made on Sir John Pakington's speech. It has
produced no direct effect, but the result of it may possibly
be to encourage the tot*" to make a new attack upon the
budget.

The Bourse was somewhat affected by the influ-
ence of the exchanges on New York on the London
market. The Rente fell 6c. for cash and Mc, for
account, closing at 69fr. 10e. and 69fr. 20c.
Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c. The Orleans Railway fell
7fr. 50c., and the other lines were from lfr. 25c. to
2fr. 50c. lower. The market was inactive all day.
General Dufour, the Swiss general, whose old
private friendship for the Emperor, although it has
sometimes had occasion to cool, still continues, has
just arrived as a guest at Fontainebleau.
Vely Pacha has returned to Paris from Berlin.
The Gazette de France reports that the Emperor
has sent Madame George Saud a present of 20,000 fr.,
as a consolation for her defeat by M. Thiers.