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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1854.

certainly he had used his influence with the Porte to miti-
gate the severity of the proceedings that had or were to be
taken against the resident Greeks of Turkey.
Mr. BRIGHT reminded the noble lord that, shortly be-
fore the recess, he promised to lay on the table the papers
relating to the Greek insurrection. Could the noble lord
say when these papers might be expected?
Lord J. RUSSELL said the papers were about ready,
and they would be shortly forthcoming.

COURSE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the standing order re-
lative to the days on which the committees of supply and
ways and means shall be fixed be repealed; and, also, that
the committees of supply and ways and means shall be
fixed for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and for any
other day on which orders of the day shall have precedence
of notices of motions ; that the said resolution be a stand-
ing order of this house.
Mr. DISR A.ELI objected to this course as inconsistent
with the public business.
Mr. HUME hoped the proposition of the noble lord
should be understood to apply only to the present session.
After a few words from Sir G. GREY,
The motion was agreed to.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice, that on Monday he
would move that Government orders of the day should take
precedence of other orders on Thursday.
ADDITIONAL NAVY ESTIMATES.
The house went into a committee of supply upon the
navy estimates.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that it was now his duty to pro-
pose to the committee a considerable increase in the naval
estimates already voted. They would remember that when
hs proposed the adoption of the former naval estimates the
declaration of war had not taken place. Still, the state of
public affairs at that moment was such that her Majesty's
Government thought it expedient to propose a very consi-
derable augmentation in the number of seamen, and also a
large addition to our naval forces. Circumstances were
now materially changed, for war had actually been de-
clared. He thought that, fur the purposes of this discus
sion, he might snake three assumptions which would not
be considered by the house as either gratuitous or violent.
He should assume in the first place that the war in which
we are now enuaged is a necessary war; in tho second
place, that war having been declared it is expedient to con-
duct it with vigour and energy in the hope of bringing it
to a speedy and honourable conclusion ; and, lastly, that
the servants of the Crown, in whomsoever it might be that
that house should place confidence, should as the executive
be
them.
intrusted with the administration of the means voted by
Having thuse
house,
he
e should prefaced
proceedwhat he
at waso nabout i
with
address
the details of the estimates. The first vote which he
proposedof
for to take was an addition of 461,7001. on ac-
count wageshof seamen.
increase of Worohennhvoallagftormoers.dea
pro-
position he
sub-
mitted to the committee the policyra of adding e a
10,000
men to the entire number of seamen afloat. Ho (lid
not then anticipate that it would be possible to raise
the entire increase proposed within the first six months,
and he therefore laid before tho house an estimate for an
increase of 5,000 men for the whole period of twelve
months, and for a further number of 5,000 for men the
last six months of that time. Since war was declared—
or
rather since, in the opinion of the Government, war
seemed to be quite inevitable—increased exertions had
been made to levy the whole additional number of men
sanctioned by Parliament within the shortest possible
time ; and be had now the satisfaction of stating to the
committee that at the present time —that was within a
month from the commencement of the financial year—the
Government had been able to add 11,000 men to the navy.
They had done this partly by acting upon a statute which
gave the Executive Government power, when the services
of the State required, to call upon the coast guard for a
reserve of men to serve afloat. Of the additional 11,000
men, 2,500 had been drawn from the coast guard ; while
8,500 had been raised by voluntary enlistment since the
let March. He should, perhaps, in justice to his gallant
friend the member for Gloucester (Admiral Berkeley),
state that this success was in a great measure attributable
to his efforts. The exertions of Capt. Henderson, the com-
mander of the coast guard, had been above all praise ; nor
should he forget to mention that the services of a young
officer, Commander Phillimore, who had visited every
port in the kingdom, had also largely contributed to the
favourable result ho had announced. Something had been
said with respect to the capability of the coast-guard to
perform active service afloat. Now on that point he had
the satisfaction of holding in his hand a letter from
his friend Commodore Seymour to Admiral Napier,
in which the former, speaking of the Baltic fleet, said :
" My visits of inspection enable me to form an opinion of
the qualities of the ships' complements. The masked
superiority of the coastguard men, where they are in any
numbers, over other portions of the ship's company is
striking. They fill many of the highest of the petty
officers' ratings, which without them it would be difficult
to find properly qualified officers to fill. Taking them as
a body, notwithstanding that some are verging beyond the
prime of life, and that their vocation on the coast has
robbed them of some of that quickness that should belong
to men-of-war's men, they retain qualifications indispen-
sable to the efficiency of the fleet, and they are well-con-
ducted." (Hear, hear.) This was a most satisfactorystatement, fulfilled the anticipations which he had formed,
that the coastguard would in time of war be found a most
efficient reserve for the navy. The first item of 110,000!.
in the vote No. 1, was then accounted for in the way, he
had described, in order to meet the expense for twelve
months of the 5,000 seamen whose wages had in the last
estimates been taken for only six months. The next item
of 51,7001. was in order to meet the extra pay given to the
2,500 coastguard men now employed in the fleet. There
remained an item of 220,0001. for men, which was con-
nected with the question that it was most important for
the committee to decide. He had now to propose that,
in addition to the 100,000 sailors and 3,000 marines voted
in March last, the fleet should be further increased by
5,000 men. At this moment indeed the fleet was somewhat
in excess of the entire number of seamen voted by the house,
because the Government had been able to raise 11,000 in-
stead of 10,000 men. We had indeed now a large fleet of
nineteen sail-of-the-line in or on its way to the Baltic,
and we had also ten sail-of-the-line in the Black Sea. In
I no quarter of the world had the forces of the British navy
been diminished to make this effort ; but on the contrary
an augmentation had taken place at some of the most dis-
tant stations. Still he thought it was not consistent with
the honour and with the independent position of this great
country that we should have so large a force exposed to the
dangers of war, and to every kind of vicissitude on distant
stations all over the world, without having also something
like a reserve at home. He did not think the committee
would be of opinion that an additional force of 4,000 men
to complete the home reserve was an extravagant thing to
ask for. (Cheers.) If the committee concurred in the
opinion of the Government on this point, then, at the pre-
sent rate of wages, 220,0001. would be required to pay that
additional force. There remained, in connection with this
vote, to give some explanation of the course they proposed
to pursue with regard to the officers and men who served.
with Sir J. Franklin in the Arctic expedition. He had.
already stated that, considering no account of the officers
and men serving in that expedition had been received for
eight years, he thought the time was come when the
payment of a double amount of pay to their relatives
should cease. If, however, happily these gallant s(
men should still be alive, the course now taken woo Id
be no bar to their claim when they arrived at hone.
Supposing them, however, to be lost, he thought the
public had acted most generously to their surviving
relatives in giving them double pay for eight years.
He, therefore, proposed to close that account on the Ist
April last, and for this purpose to take a vote for 80,0001.
The next vote was one necessarily contingent upon the I ye-
ceding, for it related to the provision of victuals for the
additional seamen and marines. The first item of 50,0 301.
related to the 5,000 men whose expenses had only been
voted for six months, but had been actually incurred for
twelve months. The last item of 100,000/. was for the
5,000 additional men he was now asking the committee to
vote. The intermediate sum of 50,0001. required some ex-
planation. The vote in March Let was taken upon the
presumption that the cost of the principal articles of pi •o-
visions would continue the same that it was then. Expe-
rience had, however, shown that this was not
.the auale.
He would take, as an illustration of the rise of rice which
wa
had taken place, the single article of wheate.nerlahlle natural
price of wheat in the Mediterranean.
t theortuation ofugasra. ik
Jo.' (logy, considerablyrura ent
hloweringe
p than in
dEtnhgel a
enxd, s.,
from the north coast °tithe Black Sea, anpd the Neapolitan
f—thhe natural granary
Government having taken a similar step with regard both
w eat and flour had.
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iotfe r Naples nt (hi e o
pf
ntiec i loy
risen considerably. And indeed, generally speaking,
the extra demand for the prime necessaries of life
consequent upon war had caused them to be rapidly
rising in price ; and as he was most anxious that, as
far as foresight could secure this result, these estimates
should cover the entire cost of our naval forces :for
the ensuing year, he thought it was most prudent to take
a vote of 50,0001. to cover the rise in price which had
taken place. The next vote was only a small one ; it was
for 5,000/. to provide for the additional expenses of the
establishment at Whitehall and Somerset-house. The in-
creased duty thrown upon the clerks at both these esta-
blishments since the declaration of war had been so over-
powering, that their attendance at the office had frequently
been prolonged till nine o'clock at night. Of course it sae
utterly impossible that the clerks could be permanently
worked in this manner ; and it was absolutely necessary
to make some addition to their number. The next vote
was one for 2,000/. to provide for the additional cost of her
Majesty's establishments at home. This was required by
the necessity of making additional provision at Haslar
Hospital, and also by the increase I expense of some of the
victualling establishments, where, on account of the trans-
port service, very onerous duties had been suddenly cast
upon the employes. The next item was for a sum of
47,0001., for wages to artificers, &c., employed in the dock-
yards. The Government had not thought it expedient
while we were yet on the threshold of war to add to our
existing establishments for shipbuilding, and the general
operations of the dockyard would continue much the same
as before. Still, from the rise in the price of provisions, it
was found that the rate of wages in the dockyards was now
inadequate as compared with the price of labour elsewhere.
He had thought it more expedient to relax the fetters
placed upon the earnings of the men employed, than to
make an addition to their wages. They would now be p_a_id
in proportion to the work they did, and not by day.
.The
consequence was, that their earnings would be eonender-
ably increased, and to cover this he proposed to take
additional vote of 50,1,00. The next item, which Va!'
small one, related to Malta, the establishment at sesa the
place had been somewhat increased, in consequenl /lie
large number of steamers which now sepsis d the
pair of ships. The first item here was once next vote was ono for naval stores for the building
pair 001 /d. f
or
_sepreewnd pa
nrot
the purchase of fuel and coal for herli
When the house remembered that, of t e
halail9esstay'ils
esftetahme
°fora
e
peller; and out of the whole num et.
of 50 60
in the Baltic, 13 had the great advhanrteage
ere move by
uow in that sea, a large propos s
sive the supply of such a
coal was required, and how When they steam, they would readily imaginne.hoa large a quantityof
When added to that that
force must necessarily be.
to China and the Cape, where steamers were
we were obliged to send a supply to' the most distant sta-
tions, even
would see that the expense under this
they head
snoutloeboonomy
very great. Still he was convinced that, when
regardeded the efficiency of the public service, it was
e
to expend this large Ram of money upon coal;
tt hru
uel
e
for not only did the employment of steam power enable a
given service to be performed by a numerically smaller
force, but it secured its performance in a better manner-
The next item was one of 252,6742. for the purchase and
repair of steam machinery. This expenditure was ren-
dered necessary by the efforts which the Admiralty were
now snaking to apply that power, which experience had
proved indispensable, to all the ships of the new con-
struction, as they were launched. The house ap-
peared, too, to be of opinion that it was expedient to
have a reserved force at home, and the Government
had come to the conclusion that all the vessels of that
fleet should be furnished with steam power. They