The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—May I request that you will be good enough to
publish thti following explanation of my ou the
Naval Estimate', part of whit& you4aavolio your oe
lumng o 1 to day_

1. I distinctly followed your advice. given in your
article of a few weeks since; that is, I attacked the
items celled " wages to artificers" and materials for ship-
building. These together account for nearly 1,500,0001.
I contended, and contend, that that amount ought to give
us many more line-of-battle ships than we possess. At
the rate of 1,0001. a gun, we ought to have for our money
ten ships a year at the least; and as these ought to last,
with care, in time of peace 40 years, wo ought now to
possess, after 37 ' years of peace, 370 such ships. In
point of fact we:have nothing like this number. Where
has the money gone to?
building-ships, and the other in destroying them, and
hence" the beggarly account of empty" bulks we now
have to deplore.. The dockyards are the huge vortex
into which the publie resources have been poured and
wasted. One portion has gone in

2. I contended that our expenditure for 40,000 men
ought to be 2,000,000/. at the outside, on the ground
that able Soamen can be obtained for 11. a week to find
themselves. Our payment for wages, victuals, half-pay,
and military pensions and allowances is 3,173,6851. The
above sum of 2,000 0001., in addition to
1,000,000/ de-
voted to shipbuilding, and a margin of 1,000,000/. for
pay of officers ( ho are
P• 1
ner'd on half-pay too soon) and
suudrits, would make 4 000,0001; in all —a sum ample
tor the..uval defence of the nation on the supposition
that we keep the bulk of our force at home, and send
steam fleets to points whero their 'presence is wanted.,
NOVVOUT actual cost this year wilt be 5,600,0001. and
more. My proposal would, therefore, save over a mil-
lion and a half a year, which might be applied to liqui-
date debt.

-3. I pointed out the inadequate defence of the arsenal
at-Plymouth, showing that our expensive fortifications
may be " turned" from the land side south of the
dockyard.
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4.. I showed that Keyham was the wrong piece for
steam docks, which should have been at Mill bay,
where nature had made a splendid basin, now used for
mercantile purposes, and in the course of being partially
Riled in to make a kind of wharf ; in fact, a stranger,
watching what goes on a. Ply mouib, would say," These
people are insane. Here is bureau labour employed in
digging out QUO leviathan duck andfilling up another,
while mud is thrown into the entrance of the harbour,
and ships pulled to pieces as fast as they can be built."
It may now be too late to mend the Key bam case ; but,
if so, and if the dock be absolutely and immediatey ne-
cessary, why do the Admiralty
only ask for 40,000/. for
ibis year's expenditure on that work ? The whole es-
timate was 1,225.0001., of which the amount already
voted has been 833,000/., and the further estimate is
352,0001. before the, work can. be completed. Conse-
quently many years will elapse before the " job' will
be done,,, f we only- spend 40.000/, a year on it ; and
before the.happy period arrives we may find out we
could have dispensed with our labour altogether.
5. Inquired of the Admiralty whether in future it
was intended to rercommission ships "all standing,"
that is, when in a state of highest efficiency, when a
practised and thoroughly disciplined crew is on board of
each ship, and when "things have shaken well to-
gether" alter three years' experience, or whether they
meant to dismantle each craft entirely on cowing home,
hewing, hacking, and destroying materials to save time
and show " smartness" in the art of pulling to pieces,
and sending the men about their business—in other
words, to be plundered by sharpers of both sexes who
await the unhappy seaman on the shore of his grateful
country. The reply of the Secretary of the Admiralty
was satisfactory;
Trusting that, as my remarks were made in the capa-
city of a' fellow-labourer of your own, attacking waste-
ful expenditure, you will make that clear which the
very different reports of the morning papers have made
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. 8. TRELAwNY.

London, March 23.

Brighton,accident,
t. which
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,occurredAY AyCece It
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At
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Chi-
cheater, and Portsmouth Railway. As the 2.10
proceeding from Brighton to Portsmouth, the driver, rain was
resFulAteTdAfLatallll
leaving a curve just. beyond the Angmering stationwon
short distance before him, and near, the Ruslington goOka-
crossing (occupation road), an old man trudging towards the
Littlehairipton station, on the six-feet space between the up
and down trains. He immediately used the steam-whistle,
and finding that no notice Nes taken of the sound, he con-
tinued to use it, at -the same time. having all the breaks on
the train put pn, in order to avoid, if possible, the dinger
which appeared imminent. The man turned out to be an
aged agricultural labourer, 74 years of age, Scott by name.
• • deaf he, did not hear the whistle, anditwould
Being N ery, ,he ..did ,
seem that hie attentioxi:was attractedto some boys, who
were playing by tlicoide,of the railway southward, for just
before the train reached him he stepped from the six-foot
middle space to the down line, and was immediately knocked
down by, ,the engine. As soon as possible, the driver
" brought up." It Ives then found that one arm and one
leg had bgen completely severed from the body, and the foot
was so firmly wedged into the side of the " metal," at the
Ruslington Brook-crossing; that it could not be removed
withoitt the aid of a crowbar. The poor fellow was of course
killed 'on'the spot. ' . •
RocLailTfit CATHEDRAL . GRAMMAR SCHooL.—
The Rev: R. Whiston has been officially informed that the
hearing at' his appeal against the Deaq and Chapter of Ro •
cheater is fixed for Bloncli,y, the sth of April, at ,eleven
o'ol9clip in Dootore' Comm9o. • -

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

•
_ We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur announces that the disputes between
France and Morocco have been completely settled.
- The PRINCE PRESIDENT, on the proposition of the
Minister of „Foreign Affairs, has conferred the deco-
ration of Commander of tha Legion of Honour on M.
BOURREE, Consul• General and Charge d'Affaires of
France at Morocco, as a mark of satisfaction at the
important services he bas rendered during his mission
at Tanjiers.
The lioniteur contains a decree regulating the
position of the Senate and Legislative Corps with re-
spect to the President, end the system upon which
their proceedings will be conducted. .
Another decree determines that the judges and
magistracy shall take the oath of allegiance to the
PRESIDENT.

The Pritne DE CAMEO has left Paris for Rome.

M. JANVIER, the Councillor of State, died tin
Monday from the attack of apoplexy which he had on
Friday last.
A telegraphic dispatch from Brussels announces
that MM. D'HAUSSONVILLE and Tnoitias, accused of
publishing a libel on the PRESIDENT of the French
Republic, in the Moniteur Francais, have been ac-
quitted. The accused were defended by M. BAR-
TELS.
We read in the Constitutionnel :—" It is, as already
stated, at the Tuileries, in the Salle des Marechaus,
that the sitting of the Senate and Legislative Body
on the 29th will be held. The PRINCE PRESIDENT,
surrounded by his aides-de-camp, his orderly officers,
his Ministers, and the council of state, will be placed
on a raised platform ;. opposite the PRESIDENT of the
Republic will be, on one side the Senate, and on the
-ether the Legislative Rody. The Pain% PRRSIDENT
will deliver kspeech. A form of an oath will then
be read, and each member of the Senate and of the
Legislative Body, on his name being called over,
will pronounce from his place the words—je 2.jurc /-
The clergy. the- magistracy, and the diplomatic body
will be represented at this solemnity. A small num-
ber of places will be reserved in an upper gallery
for persons receiving invitations."
The same journal says :—" Certain foreign jour-
nals continue to affirm that there is a regular rush of
persons at the offices of the Minister of Finance, de-
manding reimbursement of Five per Cent. Stock.
At noon yesterday, there were only twenty persons
at those offices, and half of them were either there
from curiosity, or had accompanied their friends."
The Bourse was firm, with little business doing.
The Five per Cents. opened at 100 f. 25c., and closed at
the same price for the end of the month; the Three
per Cents. closed at 70f. 600.; the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 1011.; Orleans Railway Shate2 1,175 f.; Rouen,
710 f.; Havre, 2871 50c.; Great Northern, 652 f. 50c.
Avignon, 2601. ; Vierzon, 562 f.; 50e. ; Basle, 231 f. 25c.;
Bordeaux, 5571. 50. Y.; Paris and Strasburg. 551 f. 25c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 3401. ; Paris and Lyons, 6031. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mama 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, IN—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 22 4—Charleroi and Erquelines, 14 —Dutch
Rhenish, 43/—East Indian, 22 —Luxembourg, 4—Namur
and Liege, (its'-Northern of France, 21%—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 1354—Paris and Orleans, 4614—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 2114—Rouen and Havre, 11%—Sambre and Meuse,
414—Tours and Nante% 1034 .