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the Right' Honourable Gititlera. an tit; ires idenrt '
Board-of Trade-had-given notke .of his intention to intro-
duce a Bill for an alteration of the navigation laws. with
a view to its being brought forward again next session ; and
he would take the liberty of suggesting to the Board of Ad.
miralty that, pari passu with that Bill, they ought to come
down to the House with a matured plan for obtaining a
supply of seamen to the navy.—(Hear, hear.) He re-
gretted to see that the Committee had touched so lightly
upon the large expenditure which bad been incurred during
the last fourteen or ,fifteen years in the building and, altering
of ships. In his opinion that would have formed a most
valuable branch of inquiry to have entered into.—(Hear,
hear.) He begged to thank the Board of Admiralty for de-
aining.to contorm to the suggestion of the Committee with
regard to the promotion of officers. If a reduction was to be ,
made In the number of officers, the reduction should begin at
the other end, and they should not bring in so many into
the service if they had not the means of promoting them
and carrying them on.— (Hear, hear.) He hoped that the
plan of retirement would be extended to that valuable
class of officers, the masters and lieutenants of her Ma-
jesty's navy.
Captain PECHELL begged to say a word in favour of a
class of officers whose case had been entrusted to his hands,
and who had just beep alluded to by the Noble Lord. But
before doing so he wished to take that opportunity of saying
that the report of the Committee must be acted upon much
further than the Board of Admiralty seemed inclined to go.
He begged also to observe that, as far as he could discover,
the navy was never in a more efficient state than at the pre-
sent motrent ; and as regarded the manning of the ships he
must do the Hon. and Gallant Member for Gloucester
(Captain Berkeley) the justice to say, that much of that was
owing to the ability and perseverance which he has shown
on the subject. The class of officers in whose behalf he
wished to say a word was, the masters of her Majesty's
fleet. That body had presented a petition to the Admi-
ralty in the month of February, 1848, a copy of which
was ordered to be laid before the House on the 29th of
May last, in which they desired to be put upon a proper
footing, and to have rank bestowed upen them in
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ant, and empowered the Board of Admiralty to give them
the rank of Commander, the board had, shown an indisposi-
tion to act upon that order. He hoped that the Gallant
Officer below him (Admiral Dundas), would attend to the
petition of those old and meritorious officers, and see that
Justice was done to them.
Captain HARRIS concurred with the Hon. and Gallant
Member, not only in his views with respect to the claims of
the commanders and lieutenants, but also of the masters.
He considered that the claims of these officers were as
strong as those of the captains, and, as•the change would
not be for many years, he hoped the Government would not
refuse their just claims. There was another point to which
he would advert, and which be considered to be within
the reach of the Admiralty,—,he meant the necessity
of making timely preparations for- mantling the navy in
the event of a sudden breaking out of a war. The
question required only to be grappled with and looked
bold in the face, and it would become perfectly easy of
accomplishment. He hoped the Noble Lord at the head of
the Admiralty would give them some hopes that precau-
tionary measures would be adopted to secure so important
an object. With regard to the Select Committee whose re-
port
they were then considering, he, would just remark that
on its appointment being proposed he bad objected to it on
ennstitutional grounds, because he thought the House was
delegating to a few members of their own body duties which
ought to be discharged by the House itself; he also disap-
proved of the manner in which the Committee was com-
posed, there being no Members on it who were conversant O
with the nature and duties of either . naval or the mill-
tart' service; but he was bound to say, after havingread the
report of that Committee, and having made himself ac-
quainted with the principal suggestions it contained, that it
appeared to him that the Committee had been much more
moderate in their views than he had reason to expect. There
were many valuable suggestions in it, and he thought the
Committee had bestowed due caution on the subjects with
which they had to deal, and for which he gave them credit.
Mr. WAKLEY briefly referred
.to the claims of the me-
dical officers belonging to the navy, especially to the assist-
ant-surgeons, whose case he considered to be a very hard
one, and deserving the consideration of the House. He
should feel it his duty to allude more particularly to the
condition of these meritorious and suffering officers on a
future occasion.
Mr. W YLD wished to ask what protection was to be
afforded to British commerce in the Baltic? It was an im-
portant question to the mercantile interest of the country.
Hitherto the blockade in that sea had-not been enforced with
much stringency, but for the future there was reason to ex-
pect that it would be so; and be entertained fear that it
might by and by involve this country in a serious war with
the Northern Powers.
Mr. WARD replied, that no application had been made
necessity
any case of
from
commercialse
danger or injury to the property of British subjects ahculd
arise, he could assure 'the Hon. Member that effectual means
would be taken of giving that protection to our mercantile
interests in the Baltic to which they were entitled.
interests in th the e
Baltic. lfof protecting
British
Admiral DUNDAS begged to observe, in reply to the re-
marks of his Hon. Friend (Captain Pechell),
that he re-
garded the masters as the most valuable class of men in the
navy; it had been found impossible to alter their rank, but
the retirement of fifty would give them the rank of com-
mander, and entitle them to half-pay.
In reply to a question
from Mr. C. ANSTEY, respecting
the instructions given to our squadron on the coast of Africa
relative to the destruction of slave trade barracoons,
Lord PALMERSTON said that long legal proceedings
had been taken against Captain Denman, which had ended,
he believed, in the failure of the prosecution against that
gallant officer.
Mr. C. ANSTEY—Of one prosecution.
Lord PALMERSTON—With regard to the present state
of things, he could console the Hon. Member, by saying that
Majesty's officers on the coast of Africa were acting strictly
in accordance with the law of the land.—( A. laugh.)
In reply to an observation of Mr. HUME.
Admiral DUNDAS said, the whole question of the posi-

tion and treatment of assistant-surgeons had been strictly
investigated. With respect to their Messing in the ward-
room, it was found that if they messed there the mates and
half-a-dozen other officers must go there. This complaint
was perfectly absurd; but he could' assure his Hon. Friend
that the Admiralty were most anxious that the medical offi-
cers should be well treated, and tWy were well treated.
Mr. B. OSBORNE considered it not an imaginary, but a
substantial grievance, that the medical officers in the navy
were not put on the saine scale of rank with those in the
army. Their treatment was particularly alluded to in the
report of the Select Committee ; and if his Hon. Friend
(Mr. Wakley) would not take up the case of his professional
brethren, he ( Mr. B. Osborne) .would pledge himself to bring
the matter before the House.
Lord J. RUSSELL observed that much good feeling had
been evinced upon this subject ; but as the Hon. Member for
Middlesex intended to bring it before the House, perhaps
the Hon. Gentleman would not think it necessary to press a
debate now.
The vote was then agreed to.
The following votes were then agreed to :-
10,9301. to complete:the sum for the Victualling Depart-
ment.
136,3031. for salaries in the Admiralty offices.
9,7011. for salaries and expenses in the Registration and
Record-office.
77,2611. for salaries and expenses in the scientific depart-
ment of the navy.
Mr. HUME said it was now one o'clock, and moved that
the Chairman report progress.
Agreed to.
The House resumed. The remaining business :was dis-
posed of, and the House adjourned atone o'clock.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, AUG, 9.
STOCK EXCIRA.NOIL—There is more business doing in
shares to-day, and the market has a better appearance
generally. The sales are— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire (late C. and B.), 271. 10s, Shares, 14A—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Fifths, 11,4 dis. 101. Preference, 6
per cent.. 13s. 9d. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
dis.—London and North-Western. 123 t/2—Ditto, Fifths,
5'4 New Quarters, 4 p.—Ditko, Quarters (A and
B), p.—Manchester; Sheißetzl, and Lincolnshire, 101.
Preference, 10 % —Midland Stock, 101 c.—Ditto, New Halves,
6% dis.—North UniOn (A), 200 ex div.—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 3 c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 128.
MANCHESTER, Aso. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGiL—The sales are—Great Northern,
9 f'e. dis.—Lancashire'.ind YOrkshiz Preference, 6 per
cent., 11-16 p.— London and 'North-Western,'
123—Ditto,
New Quarters, 11-16 p.—North Staffordshire, 3 dis.-01d-
ham Alliance, 114 .dis..—South-Easterti .find Dover, No, 4,
3 dis. —Whitehaven and Furness, 10 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, Atra. 9,
t STOCK XCITANGE: —The sales are—North British, Halves,
94-, Ditto, Thirds, 42i. dis' .—.lsiorth Staffordshire, 635. 9d.,
dis. ex div.—ShrewsburY and Blrmingham (A), 5% dis.
—South Staffordshire, 681. 9d. dis.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.-EXAMINATION FOR

HONOURS.
MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHT,.—John
Edward Bytheway (exhibition), Wesleyan Collegiate
Institution, Taunton ; John Charles Addyes Scott,
Edgbaston Proprietary School ; Francis Guthrie, Uni-
versity College; Arthur Joseph Cohen, UniversityCbeol-t
Kung's Col-
lege ; William Henry Brown, College ; Herbert
George Russell Fripp, private tuition ; Charles Gillett,
UniversityJoChnolPleugred;ue Russellßidlake,
private Martineau, University
Cotuition.
CHEMISTRY.—AIfred Carpenter (prize of books), St.
Thomas's Hospital; Frederick William PavY• Merchant
Bir-
mingham; ScWhoioillia;
William Henry
Rpiecae,rs2 lta
ueenr'sbichai College,
College;
John Purdue Bidlake, private tuition.
CLASSICS,—*Henry James Piggott, Wesleyan Coll&
giate Institution, Taunton, and -*John Charles Addyes
Scott, Edgbaston Proprietary School, equal; *Thomas
Hodgkin, University College a . *Theephilus Dwight
Hall, private tuition,' and *William Stebbing, King's
College School, equal; Russell Martineau, University
College; John Purdue Bidlake, private tuition; Wilson
Fox, Univeisity College; James'Anstey Wild, Wesley
College, Sheffield. .
* The examiners report that the first five passed a (Hs.
tinguished examination. The award of the exhibition
is not yet determined.•

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