The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

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Great Britain—
Afloat ... ... ... 56 75 78 209 28 93
4 121 Building ... ... 16 8 3 2; 9
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Total ... ... 72 83 81 236 37 ji--- --
France ... ... ... 45 55 157 1 57
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Russia ... ... ... 45 10 99 174 8 24 11,32
Now, tho most superficial observer calm., ,_,.

Now, the most superficial Jbse r va. cannot fail to be
struck with the immense steam power of France °r
whilst Great Britain boasts of one hundred and thirty.
four men-of-war steamers, Frenco is now able to
glory
in no less than one hundred and eighteen ! But
whist is
more curious and instructive is—that of this numb,r
sixty-one are designated as large steamers, Whilst En'
umanner '
land has only thirty-scven answering to that descrtptioiga:
and that there should be no possible mistake subject, Mr. Stafford stated, in a bold and candid
,
that "it was shown in a letter from Mr. Tuttibliti,
Consul at Marseilles, that one of these ateamers otr
Vendree,
Montezuma, carried in 1848 from Oran to Port
from the 20th to the 24th of April, 1818 men of the 6'h
Light Infantry and 56th Regiment of the Line, and 195
officers and crew of the ship—making 2,013
men
altogether! "
This statement seemed to have considerable effect
upon the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorke
shire, who the preceding evening had been edifying
the /louse with a tedious descriptiou of the time ocupied by Napoleon in the preparation of his ex ac.
dition to Egypt, and his threatened denonstPra
lion from Boulogne. But when the Secretary to tb
Admiralty showed that one steamer could in a four
moijaearstOntheee
days' voyage convey 1818 soldiers from Afric
to France, and that France had 61 large steam 4
effect was so perfectly electrical as to de
the specious and fine-spun arguments of th
peace ! Nor did the Secretary of the Adineiralty stop
friends of
here. Lie pointed out in strong and
,forcible language
that the very difficulties which tented invasion in
1802—viz , that of collecting troP
ports, embarking them in small b °Ps'
providing trans-
and exposing them to all the er and tidal harbours,an
the dangers of capture in perils of a lee-shore,a ~,„..a.
detail, were the ideneticnlyalrn
cultist which modern scie the
practical application, to nee had overcome, by
electric
telegraph, v, purposes of war,
b th paddle
'ways, and steam-veesels— 0
and screw !
" Don't let tho Hon Member .for the West Riding
look back ti the to .ginningf tis century for a preee-
dent,”exclaitned th:Secretaroy to the Admiralty, " when
Afir2ona, Algiers, Civita Vecchia, and Palermo, are fresh
to our recollectiou ''
had the Gallant
eeEresh, indeed! and. it would be well
Brighton (Sir George Pechell) participated
number for
in this freshness ; for, if confidence he notf placed by
at large in the pacific intentions 9 France, as
the nation
this cannot be said to apply to
inferred by Mr. Cobden,
or their gallant representa-
the good folks of Brighton,
souls —the fifth
is a town with 65,000 town
tine. Haze
in the kingdom in payment of assessed texes, with
~oooOul of money invented in railways--within four
hours' 0
steam of the French e , oast—without a single fort,
a battalion of infantry, a company of artillery, or a vessel
of war! And yet it is asserted we place no c)efidance
in the pacific intentions of France!
Look at Worthing, Brighton, Hastings, Ramsgate,
Margate, Yarmouth, Hull, Newcastle, Leith, Dundee,
and Aberdeen, and then let us turn our eyes to the
towns on the French coast, and great indeed will be the
contrast.
Mr. Stafford accomplished two great objects, fuel fee
doing 3o he naerii:s oar warmest nehnewk.agroeYs. Re
opened the eyes of the House of Commons to our real 1,
dangT.ra, end extracted from it the aeitelseion that it
was to the nAvg We ulws!, in a great measure, look for I
national defence, and that to make assurance doubly
sure, the country mast poem, ill ticldittea to the pro-