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BRADFORD ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 9:h, the House went into:
Committee on Supply. Weighty debate on naval;
questions of various kinds. Knowing that nothing
so interesting to the burghers of an inland town,
will take liberty to descant on some of the points:
premising that, in my time, I have had opportunities
of practical acquaintance with the details, sufficient
to relieve me from the charge of impertinent inter.
fere nce.

Much was said on both sides, on the expenses ale;
other accidents, of steam as applied to war. It i-
not difficult to perceive, that if ever naval wai
recurs, steam-vessels will be the cavalry of
the sea. Of which one of the results will be.
that if ever you hear of a hostile fleet of twenty sail
of the line again, a proportion of them bearing sonic
analogy to the proportion of cavalry iu an army
(which is a fourth of the infantry, or a fifth of the
whole) will be what may be called steam line-of-
battle ships. It is not impossible that there will be
a time when all fighting ships will steam ; but so much
will be certain. A ship of this kind is not intended
to possess great velocity; but it will move through
the water at the rate of live or six miles an hour in a
calm, which all accustomed to fight naval battles by
their firesides.must see to be a great instrument of
power. An experimental ship has been fitted out,
called the Blenheim ; and is said to answer
well. But it is what is called cut down from
a 74; which means that it is one of the old 74•
gun ships (probably one that WAS found small and
ill-calculated to carry the heavy guns which seventy-
fours are now expected to carry) with its highest deck
and tier of guns or part of' them removed, so as to make
it carry at last only something above fifty. This you
will see is an operation like cutting down boots into
shoes ; but it may do once in a way for an experi-
ment. But your naval amateurs will all have heard,
that a 50-gun ship lies under the character of being
too weak for what is called the line-of-battle; that is
to say, it is impolitic to put a ship with only 60 guns,
into a place where it is almost certain to be encountered
by a ship with half as many more. Hence the Blen-
heim may do very well for what was professed to be
the intention,—defending a landing-place or harbour;
but for the line-of-battle, vessels will be wanted which
shall not be inferior in guns to at least an ordinary
74. I understand a vessel of this kind, carrying 80 guns
(for the line-of- battle ships of all nations, two-deckers,
are running into more than 74 guns at present) is in
preparation, to be called the James Watt; a name, I
was told, of Lord Brougham's choosing. And ves-
sels of this kind it will be, which will constitute
what may be called the heavy cavalry of the sea.
To these may be added a certain portion (say
half the last) of steam-frigates with the greatest
attainable velocity, and carrying guns of great calibre
for close action ; of which an example may be taken
in the Sidon, built under the direction of Sir Charles
Napier. Any man may see, that two or three
vessels of this kind in a great naval action, would
form an awful reserve, and the fleet which had not
them would lie under a great inferiority to one that
had. Besides these, there will clearly be wanted a
set of what may be called sea Riflemen ; and I feel the
more interest, because they are exactly what our
evidence on the Slave Trade Committee tells us would
be wanted to clear the Coast of Africa of Slavers.
One heavy gun, long 24 or 32 pounder, is declared
to be sufficient ; being what the Arnerica'hs used to
patronize in their schooner privateers under the ro-
mantic title of "long Tom." Since sailing is of in-
ferior importance to a steam-vessel, except as the
means of economising coals when not in a hurry, my
old recollections prompt me to think a favourable
form would be what the sailors call " ketch" rig,
which consists of one mast placed further aft than or-
dinary, and leaning forward, thereby leaving increased
room on deck before the mast; being what was ap-,
plied to the ancient bomb-ketches, though bomb-
vessels now carry their mortars between their masts,
awl fire them to their side and not to their heads
With a little contrivance of shifting shrouds, and
other things a sailor would easily make out, it seems
practicable to give the gun what a sailor would call
" a clear eye all round the horizon, whatever way
the vessel was steaming ; or if more masts were
wanted, they might be small and made to
clear away. Fifty men would be required on
the coast of Africa, on account of sending away in
captured vessels ; but there seems no reason why
thirty should not do on other stations. The
vessel itself would be the size of the smaller class of
sea-going steamers, or such as go to Boulogne.
Those of us who date from the time of Nelson's
fleets, remember the outcry there used to be for more
frigates ; the use of the frigate being only to carry or
procure information with despatch and moderate
security from capture, all of which would be as well
effected with one gun and steam, as with the old ship
of 32. Besides which, I have a notion from what 1
see on the Thames, that a steamer of this kind acting
as a tug, would tow a line-of-battle ship at the rate
of two miles an hour in a calm ; so that the tendency
will clearly be, for every heavy ship to have in one
way or other a steainsvessel which on emergency
can take it in tow. And when this is not wanted, it
is clear this " lung Tons" class must make a formid-
able addition to the sea-cavalry reserve.
I want to km ow what is the rough cost of steam-
vessels, large and small, compared with sailing
vessels of the same tonnage. In the army we know
that an infantry-man costs about 301. a year, and a
dragoon with his horse 701., and we want a rough esti-
mate of the same kind for the sea. There is a popular
belief that sailing vessels, the larger ones, cost 1,0001 1
a gun, with all their stores on board. I have heard
that the cost of steam-vessels, compared I suppose with
sailing vessels of equal tonnage, is one-half more
than the sailers, but I do not know how far ii is pre-
cise. In all military and naval establishments, the
final expense for eating and maintenance runs up to
for
once more than the expense of what is only paid
once ; and a steam-vessel eats an enormous quantity
—of coals. When we come to distant operations,
the victualling of a steam-fleet with coals will be a
most serious item. But the upshot will be this ;
nations will always have a limited amount of money
to make ducks and drakes of in war, and the ten-
dency will be, to expend this amount in what
will produce the greatest quantity of force. Hence
that a thing is intrinsically expensive, is in one sense
no reason why it will not be done ; all that follows is,
that less will be done of something else. And this
sort of calculations it is, that those whose business it
is must think of; and we that are to pay for all, are
stupid if we do not try to have an insight into the
bearings of the subject where we can.
If you find matters of this kind agreeably relieve
your mind from questions of' merinos. and of poor-
rates, I shall be glad to continue them upon occasion.
Whatever happens, do not say I do not keep an eye
upon the naval interests of Bradford.
On Thursday some Vintising scenes were exhibited
on occasion of the PC:lll'qt Practices at Elections
Bill. The Government proposed putting Bothnia
and Bolton into. the Schedule for inquiry; the basis
of
selection being, that a Commitee :.had stated the
existence.of. hribery or treating. A member with
naivete complained, that the Government which
.he had supported, should have put his borough
na
great
into the schedule. The Government with surpassing
.simplicity consented to withdraw the boroughs.
Whkeupon the Tories triumphed, and will triumph
the end of time, in the assertion that the Govern-
ment withdrew the boroughs because the Members
voted on their side. The Member for Bolton (Dr.
Bowring) steadily resisted the withdrawal of his
borough. For which he was run down as an un-
natural representative ; and it is astonishing how the
eggssentiment
ina
Nia
thatwnhfenthceo
member is to sit
upon the nest.
On Friday the Committee of Supply was furtherrruption has laid
borough,. s
cheered,
the
he duty
proceeded with, under the usual circumstances of
jection and defence.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRO.NET TIIOMPSO.N.
Blackheath, London, Aug. 14, 1848,

A HEARTLESS UOAX.--SOMO da.y—,
ago some
hearties' wretch caused the insertion o: the following
advertisement in one of the morning Journals, viz.
:___.
" Clerk wanted.—Wanted, a well-conduct( d person who
can write a good plain hand, whose habits are punctual:
As salary will be liberal, attention and strict punctuality:
will be required. Hours from ten to four.—Apply 13,1..
sonally between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, on
Friday next, the 11th ,instant, at--street, Brornp-
ton." Some days having elapsed between the appear-
once of the advertisement and that upon which the per-
sonal application was to have been made, and the
shun.
tion described being one calculated to suit a vast number
of young men, now unfortunattly out of employment,
five hundred, at least, and many of them from South-
ampton, Birmingham, and even more distant places,
went to Brompton on Friday last, between the hours
mentioned. It is to bo hoped that the mischievous block.
head who perpetrated the hoax may be discovered, and
punished as ho deserves.
STEAM to ODESSA.—ArrallgeMentS have been en-
tered into, by which aline of steam-vessels, under •the
Russian flag, running between London and Odessa, will
call at Devonpurt to take coal and passengers.—.4,o,_
port Journal.

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