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

MANCHESTER, MARcii 23.

STOCK EXCHANOC—The share market remains not only
extremely firm, but there is a decided tendency upwards.
The transactions to•day were as follow: Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire, 111/2 dis.—Ditto, 201. Shares, 634
clis.—Caledonian, Preference, 8 —Chester and Holyhead,
Preference, guaranteed si/2 per cent., 1714—East Anglian,
Preference, 6 per cent, 3 3-16—Eastern Counties, 9—East
Lancashire, Preference, Fifths, 3-16 p.—Lancashire and York-
shire, 734 c.—London and North-Western, 124—Ditto, New
Quarters, 5* p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 21/2 - Manchester, Sheffield, andLincolnshire,
Ditto, 101. Preference, 12.7/B—Midland, 641 A—South-Eastern
and Dover, 21 11-16.
BIRMINGHAM, Mulct' 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The improvement which has mani-
fested itself in the share market for the last few days was
well supported on the opening of 'Change this morning, but
the amount of business done was limited. The only transac-
tions reported were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7A
_Ditto (13), 51 .

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THE GLASGOW AND EDINGDURGH, AND SCOTTISH
CENTRAL RAILWAYS.—The Edinburgh and Glasgow and
Scottish Central Railways have concluded a working ar-
rangement which will not only be beneficial to both com-
panies in an economical point of view, but greatly promote
the convenience of the public. Hitherto passengers from
Edinburgh and Glasgow ha\ e been obliged to stop at Green-
hill Junction and be taken up by the Scottish Central en-
gine. Considerable delay was frequently the result. No in-
convenience of this kind wlil occur in future. It is now
arranged that the engines of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
line are to run upon the Scottish Central as far as Stirling,
and the engines of the Central upon the Edinburgh and Glas-
[pi,/ lice ap far 44 then (,Ivo cities.— Glasgow Coneitutional.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 23.-111 s Grace the Duke of
Northumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty, held a
levee at Whitehall yesterday, and it was attended by'the
following officers :—Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond,
K.C.8.; Admiral Sir Francis William Austen, K.C.8.;
Vice-Admiral Arthur Lysaght, Rear-Admiral Sir Wil-
ham Henry Dillon, K.C.H.; Rear-Admiral John Brett
Purvis, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Sullivan, Rear-Admiral
Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8.; Rear-Admiral Donat Heaeby
O'Brien,
.Rear-Admiral Benedictus Merwood Kelly.
Captains—F. Hatton, T. Parker, C. B. Hamilton, G.
W. D. O'Callaghan, Richard Saumarez, T. M‘Donald,
R. S. Triseott, R. Fitzroy, G. H. Wilson, George St.
Vincent Ring, T. Baillie, Hon. T. R. Drummond, and
W. S. Willis. Commanders—H, E. Wingrove, R. A.
Oliver, T. 13. Marsh, D. Fowler, Charles Starmer, and
R. B. Crawford. Lieutenants—C. M. Luckraft, T. E.
F. Risk, E. W. Lang, T. Douglas, T. E. Elliot, T.
Brydges, C. Billion, Robert Robertson, and John De C.
A. Agnew; Surgeon Robert M'Cormiek. •
Bear-Admiral Hyde. Parker, C. 8., one of the Lords of
the Admiralty, held a levee at Whitehall yesterday,
which was attended by the following officers:—Captains
J. Parker, W. A. Willis, Robert Fitzroy, G. K. Wilson,
G. Hope, F. Hatton, W. Chambers, lion. H. Keppel, R.
Saumarez, J. Scott, G. W. D. O'Callaghan, E. I. Car-
penter, and B. J. Sullivan; Commanders Vansittart, J.
13. Maisb, James Rawstorne, W. E. Brown, H. Rogers,
and B. Seymour; Lieutenants Robert Robertson, T. J.
Young, Justus B. Kooystra, J. Langley, B. G. Water-
house, T. Goss, H. Campion, B. P. Priest, John De C.
A. Agnew, and C. Bullen; Master J. W. Lowe.
Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, held a levee yesterday at Whitehall,
which was attended by the following officers:—Captains
John Parker, R. Saumarez Hon. T. B. Drummond, J.
Scott, R. Chambers, E. J. oarpentoe B. J. Sullivan, J.
Hay, R. Fitzroy, and Henry J. Blatia.n; .Commanders J.
B.- Marsh, James Rawstorne, W. H. -Webb, W. E.
Browne, G. Lo G. Bowyear, W. Critchell, and J, S.
Grundy; Lieutenants Robert Robertson, H. Campion,
and Charles 13ullen; Masters Samuel S. Flinn, G. Giles,
G. B. F. Swaine, and J. Tonkin; Paymaster and Parser
W. G. Parmeter; Surgeon Maurice J. West.
Admiral Sir John A. Ommaney, K.C.8., commander
in chief at Devonport, left for London, on leave, on
theM o Monday
command morning.
ofthe port
liisrt flag
was struck at sunset, when
devolved on Commodore Sey-
mour, whose broad pendant was re-hoisted on Monday
morning, the gallant officer having returned to his
duties from leave.

Orders were received at Devonport on Monday morn-
ing to dispatch the Vesuvius, 6, steam-sloop, Com-
mander Barnard, to Portsmouth, immediately, where, it
is reported, Commander Barnard and his crew will be
turned over to the Vixen, steam-sloop, and when ready
will embark a gentleman accredited to the Brazilian Go-
vernment from this country. The Vixen, after landing
this gentleman, is to be attached to the squadron on that
station. The Vesuvius sailed on Monday afternoon for
the eastward, having bat iu the morning returned from
cruising in the chops of the Channel to relieve the
vessels detained by contrary winds. She takes 70 or 80
supernumeraries for the ships at Portsmouth. Two of
the engineers of the Vesuvius were injured by the ma-
chinery during her recent cruise, one of whom dislocated
his foot, and the other had his hand seriously cut.
Engineers from the steam reserve at Devonport were
sent on board to supply their places prior to the vessel's
sailing for Portsmouth.
Hecate, steam-sloop, Commander Hand, ordered to
the mouth of the Channel to relieve merchant-vessels,
has not yet returned to port. She was spoken by the
British merchant brig Zeo, in 48 30 N., 8 W. lon.
Diligence, naval transport, Master Commander Mit-
chell, sailed, on Monday afternoon, from Devonport,
with stores for the four eastern yards.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Superb, 80, Captain
Purcell, was visited this morning at Spithead by Ad-
miral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.0.M.G., the Commander-
in-Chief, and the Earl of Minto. Captain Chads, C. 8.,
of the Excellent, also accompanied the gallant Admiral
in the Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. G. Allen, Acting
Master, commanding. Tho Admiral, after inspecting
the ship, mustered the ship's company, and Captain
Chads exercised them thoroughly in gunnery, and so
far as could be judged from the shore, and taking into
consideration ihe newness of the science of gunnery to
nine-tenths of her crew, they appeared to be pretty good
shots. The report about paying the Superb off was
premature. The orders at present issued by the Admi-
ralty are to pay the crew " down ;'' but nothing more.
It is therefore probable that this fine ship and her now
well-drilled complement will remain for some time in
commission yet, and do some further service to the
State.

The Polyphemus steam-sloop sailed this afternoon for
:he coast-of Africa.

NAVAL ESTIMATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIDIES.

Sir,—May I request that you will be good enough to
publish tho following explanation of my remarks on the
Naval Estimates, part of which you have in your co•
lumps of to-day.
I. I distinctly followed your advice, given in your
article of a few weeks since; that is, I attacked the
items called " wages to artificers" and materials for ship-
building. These together account for nearly 1,500,000/.
I contended, and contend, that that amount ought to give
us many more line-of-battle ships than w© 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 ut peace 40 years,
we ought now to
possess, alter 37 years of peace, 370 such ships. In
point of fact we have nothing like this number. Where
has the money gone to?
empt
One portion has gone in
building ships, and the other in destroying them, and
hence " the beggarly account of " hulks we now
have to deplore. The dockyards are the huge vortex
have into which tbo public resources been poured and
wasted.

2. I contended that our expenditure for 40,000 men
ought to be 2,000,0001. at the outside, on the ground
that able seamen can be obtained for 1/. a week to find
themselves. Our payment for wages, victuals, half-pay,
and military pensions and allowances is 3,173,685/. The
above sum of 2,000,0001., in
addition to 1,000,000/• de-
voted_to ship-building, and a margin of 1,000,0001. for
pay of officers (who are placed on half-pay too soon) and
sundries, would make 4,000.000/. in all—tt sum ample
for the naval defence of the nation on the supposition
that we keep the bulk of our force at home, and send
steam fleets to points where their presence is wanted.
Now, our actual cost this year will be 5,600;000/. 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 easily " turned" from the land side south of the
dockyard.
4. I showed that Keyhana was the wrong place 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
filled in to make a kind of wharf ; in fact, a stranger,
watching what goes on at Plymouth, would say, "These
people are insane. Here is human labour employed in
digging out one leviathan dock and filling 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 treed the Keyham case ; but,
if so, and if the dock be absolutely and immediately ne-
cessary, why do the Admiralty
only ask for 40,000/. for
this year's expenditure on that work ? The whole es-
timate was 1,225,0001., of which the amount already
voted has been 833,0001., and the further estimate is
352,000/. before the work can be completed. Conse-
quently many years will elapse before the " job' will
be done, if we only spend 40,0001. a year on it ; and
before the happy period artives we may find out we
could have dispensed with our labour altogether.
5. Inquired of the Admiralty
whetherwas intended to re-commission shies
"all standing,"
that is, when in a state of highest efficiency, when a
ee years
acadhress xpng materials to save time
craft'troyi n
practised and thoroughly-disciplinedeerkeencrw
each ship, and when " things have
entirely shaken wen to-
gethere
after
oor eiwhether
a futurert
dheoi y
meant home,tf
hewing,'
Dha ckitng, and
dismantleh
r
and
show "smartness
the
sar
men
tnes in the art of pulling to pieces,
and sending about their business—in other
words, to be plundered by sharpers of both sexes who
of his grateful
country. The reply of the Secretary of the Admiralty
await the unhappy seaman on the shore
was satisfactory.
Trusting that, as my remarks were made in the capa-
city of a follow-labourer of your own, attacking waste-
ful expenditure, you will make that clear which the
very different reports of the morning papers have made
unintelligible,_

I have the honour to be, sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. S. Tr:a.
____

London, March 23.

,AWNY.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An
Brighton,accident,
resulted fatally, occurred yesterday on tho
i-
chester, and Portsmouth Railway. As the 2.10 t
proceeding from Brighton to Portsmouth, the lrirain was
ver, on
leaving a curvejust beyond the Angmering •
station saw, a
g short distance before him, and near the Ruslin ton 'Brook-
crossing (occupation road), an old man trudging
towards the
Littlehampton station, on thesix•feet space between the up
and down trains. He immediately used the steam-whistle,
and finding that no notice was taken of the sound, he con-
tinued to use it, at the same time having all the breaks on
the train put on, in order to avoid,, if possible, the danger
which appeared imminent. o man turned out to be an
~.11a
aged agricultural labourer, I 4 years of age, Scott by name.
Being very deaf, he did not hear the whistle, and it would
seem that his attention was attracted to some boys, who
were playing by the silo of the railway southward, for just
before the train reached him he stepped from the six-toot
middle space to the down line, and was immediately knocked
down by the engine. As soon as possible, the driver
" brought up." It was then found that one arm and one
leg had been completely severed from the body, and the foot
was so firmly wedged into the side of the " metal," at the
Ruslington -Brook-crossing, thart, it could not be removed
without the aid of a crowbar. lhe poor fellow was of course
killed on the spot.
ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL GM RAMAR SCHOOL.—
The Rev. R. NVhiston has been officially informed that the
hearing of his- appeal against the D•tin and Chapter of Ro•
chester is fixed for Monday, the sth of April, at
.elaTen
*1904, ill Doctors' CogaNgi.

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 the 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, and the system upon which
their proceedings will be conducted.
Another decree determines that the judges and
magistraey shall take the oath of allegiance to the
PRESIDENT.

The Prince DE CANINO has left Paris for Rome.

M. JANVIER, the Councillor of State' died on
Monday from the attack of apoplexy which he had on
Friday last.
A telegraphic dispatch from Brussels announces
that MM. D'HAUSSONVILLE and THOMAS, accused of
publishing a libel on the PRENDBNT 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 Marechaux,
that the sitting of the Senate and Legislative Body
on the 29th will be held. The Panics 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
other the Legislative Body. The PRINCE PRESIDENT
will deliver a speech. 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 le jure
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. 60e.; the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 1011.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,175 f.; Rouen,
710 f.; Havre, 287 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 652 f. 50c. ;
Avignon, 260 f. ; Vierzon, 562 f.; 50c. ; Basle, 231 f. 25c.;
Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg. 551 f. 25c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 340 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 603 f. 750.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1354—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 22%—Charleroi and Erquelines, 14 —Dutch
Rhenish, 4N—East Indian, 223ti—Laxembourg, 4—Namur
and Liege, 6% —Northern of France, 21%—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 13%—Paris and Orleans, 4654—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 213/4—Rouen and Havre, 11%—Sambre and Meuse,
4 tAi —Tolirs and Nantes, 104; .

SPAIN.

The accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst.

The Court is to leave for Aranjuez in the begin-
ning of April.
General JOAQUIN ARMERO, lately appointed Cap-
tain-General of Estramadura, had gone to take leave
of Queen CHRISTINA, at Aranjuez, and was to proceed
from thence to Badajoz.
The QUEEN intended to present the POPE with a
splendid painting of MURILLO, and a number of car-
riage horses from the royal stables of Aranjnez.
The Gazette contains a decree giving the Canary
Islands a new administrative organization. Those
islands are in future to be divided into two districts.
The first will comprise the islands of Teneriffe, Go-
mere, Palma, and Hierro ; and the second, the Great
Canary, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote.
The Three per Cents. were dope at 39i for time ;
the New Three per Cents. at 19} ; the Debt of the
First Class at 7k; that of the Second Class, at 5
3-16; and the Coupons, at 9i.