The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

THE NAVY _ESTIMATES.

The navy estimates for 1800-61 were published
yesterday. The grand total sum required to be
voted for the ensuing financial year is stated to be
£12,802,200, against £11,775,718, thus exhibiting
a net increase of £1,026,482. There is an increase
on all the items except No. 8 (wages to artificers at
home), No. 11 (new works, &c., in the yards), No.
14 (half-pay).
The effective services take £10,971,102 out of
the grand total of £12,802,200. The items are-
1, Wages to seamen and marines, £3,476,757; 2,
Victuals for the same, £1,458,087 ; 3, Admiralty-
office, £160,280 ; 4, Coastguard Service, Royal
Naval Coast Volunteers, and Royal Naval Reserve,
£287,725 ; 5, Scientific Branch, £64,322 ; 6, esta-
blishments at home, £174,378; 7, establishments
abroad, £30,953; 8, wages to artificers at home,
£1,440,681 ; 9, wages for the same abroad, £63,686;
10, naval stores for building and repair of ships,
£3,204,434 ; 11, new works, &c., in the yards,
£444,049; 12 medicines and medical stores, £73,000;
and, 13, miscellaneous services, £92,750.

Half-pay figures for £691,262 ; military pensions,
&c., for £488,806 ; and. civil pensions and allow-
ances for £173,030. For the Army Department
(conveyance of troops) the sum of £478,000 will be
asked.

The naval force will consist of 66,100 seamen and
boys in the fleet and Coastguard service ; 18,000
marines and 1,400 civilians in the Coastguard ser-
vice—making a grand total of 85,000 men.
£30,530 is asked for bounty money, &c., to
volunteers into the Royal Naval Coast service, and
£lOO,OOO for annual "retainers" to volunteers into
the Royal Naval Reserve, conduct money, expenses
of billeting, and other expenses. The Coastguard
service, properly so called, will cost £149,068. The
gross total for this service, the Royal Naval Coast
Volunteers, and the Royal Reserve, is as already
stated, £287,725. 9,500 men are to be employed
in the Coastguard service. £20,000 is provided as
bounties for seamen who will volunteer into the
Royal Navy (wages branch) ; and £20,800 for
good conduct pay to petty officers and men after
certain periods of service. There will also be half
bounty and gratuitous issues of clothing and bed-
ding to seamen and boys, besides tobacco and soap.
The navy proper will include 54,000 officers, sea-
men, and boys to be employed in the fleet, 2,000 to
be employed in sarveying, troop, and store ships,
and 2,000 boys to be trained in training ships.
In the course of last autumn the Lords of the Ad-
miralty drew the attention of their colleagues at the
Treasury to the necessity of keeping up a number
of gunboats available for the protection of the
shores and the various mercantile ports of the coun-
try en cas de besoin, and to the growing demands
for such gunboats in the colonies. The Surveyor of
the Navy stated that of the original number of
gunboats-161---38 had been sent abroad, and ac-
cordingly suggested that so serious a deficiency
should be supplied as soon as possible, by ordering,
in addition to the 18 boats of 80-horse power then
(Sept. 1859) being built, 20 of 60-horse power, of
obout 268 tons, and of an improved design, the cost
of which would be £206,000 (£134,000 for hull and
£72,000 for machinery). The Lords of the Treasury'
were pleased, in October, to authorise the Admi-
ralty to commence forthwith the construction of 10
additional gunboats.
There are several surveys now in progress, as
follows :—Home surveys—North Sea and East
Coast ; Devon, Cornwall, South Coast ; Bristol
Channel; Mull and Ayrshire ; Skye and Inverness ;
Sound of Harris ; East Loch, Tarbert ; Antrim and
Down ; Kerry, West Coast ; the Channel Islands.
Foreign surveys—The coast of Syria ; the Greek
Archipelago ; the Cape Colony ; Torres Strait, Aus-
tralia : China Sea ; coast of Tartary ; Vancouver's
Island ; West India Islands ; Bay of Fundy ; and
the Gulf of and River St. Lawrence.