Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

THE NAVY ESTIMATES.

The naval. estimates for the ensuing year were yester-
day presented to Parliament by her Majesty's command.
The total sum required is £12,802,200, an increase over
the estimates of last year of £1,026,482 The sum
required for the navy itself is £10,971,102 ; but the
necessary provision for pensions, half-pay, civil pen-
sions, and conveying troops, make it up to the larger
sum c,amed.
The wages to seamen and marines are estimated at
£3,476,757, an increase of £410,000 over the corres-
ponding sum of last year. Victuals for these men will
cost £1,458,087 ; p 215,220 more than last year. The
Admiralty-office estimates amount to £160,280, showing
an increase of £14,323. The Coast Guard Service,
Coast Volunteers, and Naval Reserve estimates, to
£287,725, more by £1,668 than the corresponding
sum of the former year. The cost of the scientific
branch is put down. at £64,322; that of her
Majesty's establishments at home at £174,378, and
that of her Majesty's establishments abroad at £30,953,
each sum being somewhat greater than the similar vote.
of last session. The wages to artificers employed in her
Majesty's establishments at home are to amount to
£1,440,681, those for the men employed abroad to.
£63,686, the first sum being less than that of the
preceding year by £87,101, the second exceeding the
former vote by 0,356. For naval stores, the building
and repairing of ships, &c., £3,204,434 is asked,
£387,304 more than the last corresponding vote. The
new works, improvements, and repairs in the yards, &c.,
are expected to cost £444,049, this sum being less by
£203,362 than the similar sum for 1859; medicines and
medical stores are estimated at £73,000, and miscella-
neotis services at £92,750. These sums amount in all
to £10,971,102, and constitute the estimates for the
effective service. The half-pay to officers of
,the navy
and marines amounts to £691,262, the military pensions
and allowances to £488,806, and the civil pensions and
allowances to £173,030. The cost of conveying troops
is put down at £478,000.
Some votes are worth examining in detail. Of the
whole sum required for wages to seamen and marines,
£2,905,323 are required for the seamen ; £571,434
for the marines. Of the former sum we find
£20,800 is asked to provide good-conduct pay to
petty officers and seamen, and gratuities of various
kinds. In the estimates for the marine service also
there is an item of £lO,OOO to provide good-conduct
pay, and also one of £1,200 to provide prizes for good
shooting. The vote for the building and repair of ships
is composed of the following items :—£722,758 for the
purchase of timber, masts, deals, &c. ; £670,598 for the
purchase of other stores ; £312,644 for the purchase of
coals and other fuel for steam vessels, &c. ; £798,500
for the purchase of steam machinery ; £640,824 for
iron-cased ships, steam vessels, and gunboats building
by contract, and various other sums for minor purposes.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.---A bill has been brought in
by Messrs. Slaney, Cowper, and Ewart, to enable a
majority of two-thirds of the ratepayers of any parish or
district duly assembled, to rate their parish or
district in aid of public improvements for general benefit
within their district, 'a certain proportion being before
raised by donations and subscriptions.