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London, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

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tile T' tnncror of the Feeneh at Ber- I pursued in he . ,
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nted to invest agate the Sy steir i
The speech of , - i The committee appoi
the most remarkable and pregnant event 1 a voluminous report, . .
deaux is bestowed. The
k• It will serve the Italian cause more care and labour has evidently been.
on which a vast arriouret of
of the wee •
than all the blood and treasure spent
in the late field of inquiry was large, diversifiefl,
made the m. ';vision of
and oomph--
011- cated, he who only has m
war, and has already spoken comfort and enc and "i
a outcie
all labour in these huge establishments .
rag,ements to the friends of light and liberty*
over Europe. study is fully competent to pronou
core approach the
The speech is a buffet dealt on the Garonne, to merits and demerits. l`yre there_ ounce heir
are leased
be felt on the Tiber and the Arno. lire n s
decided judgment on tee various
übject with a full consciousness of cur unfitness.
to imagine the boon the ear administered. by the to pronounce any
Emperor propagating itself through Christendom,
fact of the committee not
described by Pope in the, points involved, and shall narrate rather than
like the celebrated yawn , - criticise; and indeed the
" Dunciad." From the burnifrg cheek of the arch
since reached the vener- We have no doubt that
bishop the blow has long being unanimous would alone inspire BB with more
than ordinary caution.
1 • ommNee
able countenance of the Holy Father himself,
.and
reached him at the most opportune of all possible
due regard to the interests of the public
the Lords of the Admiralty selected the c . ,
with every
moments, just as he was raisinb. his
jpaternal arm
3ut the expe-
to repeat the correction of Perugia. _ with an entire conviction of their
service, and that the several members have given
rience of the Imperial rebuff will not be confined to
correctness ; nevertheless we cannot but attach
Italy. We feel the gratifying conviction that the their opinions
Ultramontane faction in the Church of Rome will considerable weight to the objection raised by Mr.
feel the same wholesome and humiliating sense- Chatfield in his dissent from the report. That gen-
tlemantions through its entire nervous system, even to its IS the master shipwright of Deptford, and
Go-
extreme fibres in Ireland, making the ears of ut- he says " while I alone have represented the
vernment ship-building department, there have
most Cullen tingle.
The consciousness that the Imperial slap in the.
been two officers of the committee who are profes-
face was incurred by the commission of a gross I sionally engineers, And to this circumstance, per=
haps, may be attribute!' the proposal of the ma-
discretion must have greatly improved its effect.
The cardinal-archbishop approached the Emperor i
ciples, and to adopt the systems practised in the
ority to regulate the dockyards upon factoryprin-
with that presumptuous address, as if it were ex-
pressly to catch what he got. Flattery was never private trade. It is also
duties of the chief engineer with those of the mss •
more offensive ; unasked advice was never obtruded prnposed so to mix up the
with greater imprudence or effrontery. if Louis
,confusion, and divided responsibilities would
Napoleon wss ignorant of " the secret of the pros- deg tershiwrieht, that, if the suggoetion be adopted,
perity and glory of "his reign," he learned it from
of both departments." As a dissent has
the clergy of Bordeaux, who, like their order in all nience
result therefrom, to the great practical inconve-
times and places, see nothing but the Church, nod of five members, of whom Rear-
interests but those of the mitre and the stole : • been recorded. it is proper to state that the com-
mittee consisted
"We now, site, pray with more fervour, if posrible, that - tea. Mr. Chatfield, whose professional standing
Adiniral Smart was chairman ; with- him were as-
Ged may give you the means, as He has given you the SOCUI,
desire, to reziain faithful to that Christian policy which has we have mentioned ; Mr. Murray, chief engineer
called down a blessing upon your name, and which is, per- of Portsmouth; Mr. Laws, storekeeper of Chat-
haps, the secret of the prosperity and the source of the ham ; and Mr. Robert Bowman, civil engineer and
glories of your reign." ship-builder. One of the principal recommenda-
The plain English or plain French of this, is that tions of the majority of the committee, composed
the Emperor owes his power and importance exclu- of all the members except Mr. Chatfield, is to
sieely to the Church ; and why did the Church
patronise him, why did the French clergy make enlarge the sphere of the superintending duties
of chief engineer in the dockyards, and con-
Louis Napoleon what he is ? No explanation was
mat-
ever franker or more characteristic. B ?cause his tract those of the master shipwrights. -In
ters of this description much allowance must
rule was a blessing to France ?By no means—in be made for that bias in favour of parti-
such a motive there would have been an admix-
ture of earth, for which there is no place in breasts cular systems which is, with rare exceptions, ob-
served in persons trained in different habits of life;
of priestly purity. By his services to the altar
alone the Emperor purchased their high-minded but Mr. Chatfield appears to us to use the language
of plain common sense in asserting that whatever
and single-minded devotion. For what had he done ?
is essentially a part of the hull of a ship is legiti-
He had " restored the Church and the priest-
mately within the province of the master ship-
hood their crown of glory !" He had " bleu- wright, while whatever constitutes a portion of an
pirated his great destinies by restoring to the Vicar engine
falls within the business of the chief engi-
of Jesus Christ his city, his people, and the in- neer. However, the committee have decided other-
tegrity of his temporal power !" wise, considering that the dockyard smitheries, the
Now we know the meaning of " a Christian saw-mills, and the block-mills should be transferred
policy" in the mouth of a Cardinal-Archbishop. Of from the shipwright to the engineer department.
course the Emperor had only "to remain faithful" They also recommend that the dockyard mill-
to it to continue to enjoy the same distinguished wrights shop be abolished in all the yards whore
favour. And to press such fidelity. the more upon there is a factory, and that the locksmiths, plumbers,
him, the address proceeded to remind him how he braziers, and others of this class of operatives,
had formerly sketched out that policy for himself : should be transferred to the factory. To all these
•• We pray with unswerving confidence, with a hope changes Mr. Chatfield objects, arguing that if the
which deplorable events, and sacrilegious acts of violence chief engineer is to have the .superintendence of
have not been able to shake, and the motive of this hope,
these several departments he ought also to have the
the realization of which appears now so difficult, is, after
God, you, Sire, who have been, and still wish to be, the control and selection of themachinery in the victual-
eldest son of the Church ; you, who spoke these memorable ling yards, and the appointment of the men in the
words :—' The temporal sovereignty of the venerable head flour-mills,bakerv, and chocolate and mustard mills,
of the Church is intimately connected with the fame of sincehe is. .
Catholicism and the liberty and independence of Italy.'" • boundt'o keep in good working order the
It was doubtless thought a marvellous stroke of engines and boilers which supply the motive power,
art to reproduce "these memorable words," uttered • - -
and to repair defects in the machinery.- Mr. Chat-
under other circumstances, when the events that field, in support of his dissent in reference to these
departments, quotes the decision of the Admiralty, of
now agitate Italy were yet in the womb of time.
But the Archbishop must now feel that it may not the.February,
12th 1849, which placed the whole
be wise to remember everything memorable. King- '• e •
smithy department under the master shipwright,
craft proved more than a match for priest-craft at
the chief engineer being distinctly made subordi-
Bordeaux. The Emperor made the memorable nate to him ; but the majority of the committee
words infinitely more memorable by the adroit turn propose to reverse this arrangement. This is the
main, but by no means the sole, point of difference,
he gave them, at the same time putting a perfectly and we have put it thus prominently forward that
fair and honest construction on them : the general reader may perceive at a glance the
"I thank you for having recalled my words, for I enter- •
leading
tain the firm hope that a new era of glory will arise for the features of the controversy, which turns on
Church on the day when the whole world will share my the division of labour.
conviction that the temporal power of the Holy Father is The instructions given to the committee are spe-
not opposed to the liberty and independence of Italy." cially to report on expenditure, so as to unite effi-
This was only a preliminary rap over the ciencv with economy, and their attention was in
knuckles ; the box on the ear was yet to come. consequence directed to the cost of constructing a
There had not been a syllable about the liberty and man of war. This comes home to the pocket of
independence of Italy in the archiepiscopal address., every tax-payer, as a contributor to the navy esti-
any more than about the liberty of France, which mates. It appears that the cost for shipwrights'
was not what the clergy bargained for when they labour on eight corvettes of 1,462 tons each, lately
brought their loyalty to •rnarket. It was a sharp built in the dockyards, and not fitted for sea, aye-
rebuke in itself to tell the clergy of Bordeaux that I raged 109 s. 8,1-l. per ton, and on one of those fitted
there are such things in the moral world as liberty for sea it was lls. per ton. Statements, how-
and independence. It was a truth they had no ever, have been furnished to the committee show•
notion of until Louis Napoleon seized the opportu- ing that two ships of this class, but slightly infe-
nity of enlightening them ; but, they know it now rior in tonnage, named the Cossack and the Tartar,
on the word of an Emperor and " the eldest son of originally contracted for by the Russian Govern-
the Church!" , meat, but now in her Majesty's service, "were
The heavy blow, however, and the great dis- I built in a private yard on the Thames for about 48s.
couragement was delivered in the succeeding pas- per ton for shipwrights' labour; and that the cost
i for shipwrights' labour on such ships, if built with
scantlings, fastenings, and workmanship similar to
ships of her Majesty's navy, and fitted fur sea,
would be about 525. only per ton." Allowing, then,
amply for any superiority in the quality of work,
the difference in cost is enormous. A comparison is
instituted between ships of the same tonnage built
at the yards of Devonport, Sheerness, Chatham, and
Woolwich, and not fitted for sea, and the extreme
difference per ton is £4 4s. 6d. and £6 IBs. od. This
large variation applies to the Pearl, built at Wool-
wich, and the Cadmus, at Chatham, and it should
be noted that both these ships were built from the
same drawings and from. the same scheme of scant-
lings, frame bolted and otherwise bolted through-
out. Another case is cited of the Shannon, built at
Portsmouth, and the Chesapeake, built at Chatham.
They were both 51 gun frigates ; the tonnage of
the former was 2,651, of the latter 2,335 ; the Shan-
non cost £5 ss. 10d. per ton, and the Chesapeake
£3 19s. 7d. The Mersey, of 3,727 tons, cost for
shipwrights' labour £14,842; the Orlando, £19,505;
and yet they were of the same tonnage, form, and
dimensions. Such discrepancies certainly demand
a very sifting investigation.
The majority of the committee desire to assimi-
late the management of work in the Royal dock-
yards to the system observed in private establish-
ments. To any such change Mr. Chatfield objects,
and brings forward some very strong arguments
against the practice adopted in the private yards.
He quotes the authority of Mr. Brown, now lead-
ing man of shipwrights at Woolwich, who says
that in the Government yards, in planking a ship,
every plank is examined most minutely ; if there is
any defect it is taken out, and if any rent it is im-
mediately caulked, but no such exactitude is ob-
served in the private yards. Here, then, is one
cause of increased expenditure, but the outlay is
more than compensated by the superiour sou ici-
ness of the ship. Mr. Brown maintains that the
Government work " is three times as well done and
worth three times the money." Mr. Bascomb (mea-
surer of Woolwich yard) condemns ships built by
contreet, and points out many instances in which
shipwrights " scamped the work!' This dis-
honesty is corroborated by many other witnesses.
In the gun beats received at Deptford yard
numerous defects were detected ; wormholes were
discovered, causing leaks, the 'fastenings were im-
perfect,
and the caulking inferior. The floating
batteries are exposed to similar censure. One,
named the Trusty, reported on at Sheerness yard,
entirely belied her name. Both the materials and
the workmanship were bad. Indeed, Mr. Chat-
field does not hesitate to state in emphatic terms,
that " the practices of private trade, if introduced
into the public departments, will be ruinous to the
British navy." He then adduces proofs of the
soundness of ships constructed in the Government
dockyards. He refers to four men of war respec-
tively built at Portsmouth, Deronport, Sheerness,
and Chatham, whose sterns were opened when con-
verted into screw propellers, and their state was
most satisfactory.
We are as much inclined to insist on a strict eco-
nomy as the most exacting Radical, but a mere
money cheapness frequently proves but wanton
extravagance. An article may be dear at any cost,
and we may pay too much for gold. As the great
bulwark of our power, the Royal navy must be effi-
ciently maintained, fur if we lost the command of
mwoerualdions cease o fto a
the seas we should almost be dwarfed into the di-
mensions etrilneanc e n
ti.e
of principality.tiiem
c 0
mLoenrde
iaonl
world. The manufacturing districts would lose
ses es
ts
anki
ei di
ss ttaotoi opnesr
i\lvocuusl ctlo pbaessesitiiintoaftueid-eii6n,nploluannddss:
their colonial markets: All cur transmarine for-
tTriei
Aillings, and pence, and certainly it is not in our
dockyards that financiers, with more presumption
than knowledge, should essay their experiments.—
No ro iny Herald.

sage

" I cannot now enter into details which the grave cws-
tion you have touched upon would give rise to, and I con-
fine myself to reminding you that the Government which
replacid the Holy Father on his throne can only give him
counsel inspired by a respectful and sincere devotion to his
interests. But he is anxious, and with good cause, ns re-
gards the day, which must soon come, when Rome will be
evacuated by our troops ; for Europe cannot allow that the
occupation which has lasted for ten years shall be indefi-
nitely prolonged; and when our army withdraws, what will
it leave behind it? Anarchy, terror, or peace? This is a
question the importance of which no one can deny. But,
believe me, in the times in which wo live, to resolve it, we
must, instead of appealing to ardent passions, endeavour
calmly to fathom the truth and pray to Providence to en-
lighten peoples and kings on the wise exercise of their
rights and extent of their duties."

It was here that the tingling of mitred ears, near
and remote, began in earnest.

Churches and chapels instantly it reached,
St. Peter's first."

The clergy had just had the assurance to assert that
the occupation of Rome was the. chief glory of the
empire, and the main source of its strength. "I am
sorry you think so," replies the Emperor, " as that
occupation has already lasted too long, and cannot
last much longer. In fact our army must withdraw,
and pray, my Lord Archbishop, has your wisdom
considered what the state of Rome will be upon the
evacuation ? Yon take it upon you to counsel me, but
it would be more within the sphere of your duty and
office to tender your advice to the Pope's Govern-
ment, which must speedily be left either to enjoy the
peace of which he has laid the foundations in good
government, or combat the anarchy which he has
sown the seeds of in misrule. And now, since you
have kindly given me this opportunity of telling
you my mind, you shall" hear a little more of it, and
perhaps what I say may reach to other dioceses, to
Orleans perhaps, and Poictiers—let me have no
more of your appeals to the passions, which holy
men cught rather to calm than excite. You forget
in what times you live. I must teach you to
understand your epoch. Not even the Papacy
itself is above responsibility to the opinion that
n3w sways the world. It' the Papacy will only
its temporal power as it has hitherto used it, it must
rely on itself for its defence. I understand the
hoeour of France better than you do, and it is out
of.the question that her arms can continue to be
disgraced
,by ;supporting even the Head of the
Church himself against the fair and reasonable de-
mands of his people. Go back to your cathedral,
nnd instead of implorinte heaven to protect the Pope'
in resisting the will of his subjecte, and the im-
provement of his dominions, pray that he may re-
give the light he so much wants both in exercising
his rights and discharging his duties."
lire 'have developed the imperial correction a
little, even at the risk of diluting it, which now can
do no harm, the Archbishop of Bordeaux. having
had his box on the car with all the intensity of the
briefer and more vigorous original.
It grill be interesting to watch the sequel of these
things, and particularly what steps the Church will
tike with "her eldest son " after such rude behavi•
our. And " the Phinaculht c Patroness of Bordeaux,"
will she continue after this to extend. " her maternal
protection " to the Emperor ? " You will acquit
yourself," said the address, of a debt of gratitude
to•her by preparing a triumph fur her son in the
person of her Vicar. Such a triumph is worthy of
you, Sire. It will put an end to the anxieties of
the Catholic world."

Ungrateful and graceless Emperor, who will
neither pay his debts to heaven nor to its•represen-
tative on earth. Ile has plainly got the heretical
notion into his head that the triumph of Rome is
not the sane as the triumph of F-,:ance in the pre-
sent state of It•aly and Europe. And he has hi'
upon a way of Li own of putting an end to the
anxieties of the Cttitolic world. Tits Bordeaux
speech has done nnt.!li already to relieve them.

[ADvE::;r:s.i3:-E-_,..T.] —Mr. Ilcnison, Libig.atc_hiii, has
just publiihe:l n new illastrated pamptgr,t on watches (flee
by post for two f.tamps). It should 00 cal by all who are
prices ztn:l. important
aiiotzt buyin.,?; :t as it (toner :ins pr
inforumtion to—lVliat watch to buy ! to buy it
an 4 how to tz

A SWELI.MOTISMAN AT THE GREAT EASTERN.—
A. well-known Liverpool pickpocket, named William '
. aniuel,;on, dressed in the latest fashion, with a mock dia-
mond ring on his finger, and a real gold chain. round his
neck, was amongst the visitors to the Great Eastern on
Wednesday,
but had no sooner stepped on board thanhe was
accosted by Detective-officer Carlisle, who politely requested
him to walk into one of the cabins, where he searched him,
and found in his possession a purse coat tilling a railway ex-
cursion ticket, available for a month; £2 in gold, about 30s.
in silver, and a recipe for making mushroom ketchup, also £4
or £5 in loose silver, six empty portemonnaies, and several
cambric pocket handkerchiefs. Upon making inquiries he
ascertained that the purse containing the railway ticket, &c.,
belonged to a Mrs. Purdie, of Shaw-street, Liverpool, who
was one of Sartmelsou's fellow passengers in the steamer
which had brought him alongside. The unfot tunate swell
was takes before a magistrate who, after hearing the evi-
dence committed him for trial at the Beaumaris sessions,

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