Star.
London, England, 1830-05-19 00:00:00

On the motion of a member in the body of the building, a vote of
conviction,
onviscutrprise if we now offer it as our decided
thanks was passed to the members of the Political Council.
A vote of thanks was then voted to the Chairman, and the creel-ion.
ect. that the liberal majority will be greatly
ing quietly dispersed. 1 increased by this new appeal to the electors.—
it !thin half an hour after its close, notwithstanding the unpre. •
cedented number who attended the meeting, and the extraordinaryWe had intended to offur gonte remarks on another im-
excitement which pervaded the town, the streets exhibited their portant event—the sailing of the expedition against Al-
usual appearance ; all was perfectly quiet and peaceable.
giers. These must be deferred. It seems to be very go-
ner:llly agreed that the fate of the Bourbon dynasty de-
pends on the result of the two great measures now in
course of execution.

FRENCH PAPERS

TIE PARIS EXPRESS.—Tuis Moaxma.

We have received the Moniteur and other Paris
Journals of Monday, and the Gazette de France, dated
Tuesday. It will be observed that the Chambers are
dissolved. The official part of the Moniteur contains a
Royal Ordnance to the following effect :
" Charles, &c. We have ordained as follows:
" Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved.
" Art. 2. The Electoral Colleges are convoked in the
'whole kingdom. Those of the arrondissements, and
Ithose of these departments which have but one College,
for the 23d June, 1830; the Departmental Colleges for
the 3d of July ; and the College of the Department of
Corsica for the 20th of July.
" Art. 3. Conformably to Art. 6 of the Law of 2d
May, 1827, and Art. 22 of the Law of 2d July, 1828,
the Prefects shall publish the present Ordinance imme-
diately after receiving it. They shall open the register
of reclamation, shall cause the electoral list to be again
posted up, and shall publish the table of corrections
within the time prescribed by the Law of the 2d July,
11828.

Although there is perhaps no truth more tmiversally
admitted, than that the greatness :Ind prosperity of Eng-
land is chiefly derived from her Navy, which is justly
regarded as the grand bulwark of our power, we are
justified in asserting that there is no branch of govern-
ment in which the vice of routine and an adherence
to exploded systems have done such incalculable injury
to the State. This subject, so vitally interesting to the
existence of our future power and influence, is so rarely
brought before the public, that we gladly seize the oppor-
tunity, afforded by a pamphlet just published by Mr.
Ridgway, and attributed to the late Admiral PEN Rose.,
an officer of the highest character, and whose opinions
are entitled to the utmost deference. It is entitled,
" Remarks on the Conduct qf the Naval Administration
of Great Britain since 1815," and discloses a mass of
facts which are well calculated to rivet the attention both
of Parliament, and those departments more immediately
interested in the errors and abuses it brings to light.
Being most anxious to promote the views of the
author, we cannot do better, in the present instance,
than state the principal heads of the various topics em-
braced by his pamphlet. These are—our pertinacious
adherence to old models and classes, while other nations,
and more especially the North Americans, have been
rapidly improving, both as to the increased size of their
ships, and superiority of sailing. Failure of the experi-
ments made at a great expense on small frigates and
ten gun brigs. Neglect of exercising our ships in a
body. Inattention to artillery practice. Defective state
of naval discipline. And, though last not least, the
invidious distinctions which are made between the army
and navy, with regard to those who are placed iu the
direction of the two services. Such are the points on
which the gallant admiral has dilated, and they are
illustrated with so many striking facts, that it is im-
possible for any person, at all conversant with the
subject, not to coincide in the accuracy and justice of
all he has put forth. After disclaiming all party
views or personal feeling, and making due allowance
for the difficulties of managing so large a department,
the author observes—

" Art. 4. The operations of the Electorial Colleges
shall proceed as regulated by the Royal Ordinance of
11th October, 1820.

" Art. 5. The Chamber of Peers and. Chamber of the
Deputies of the Departments are convoked for the 3d of
August next.
" Art. 6. The present Ordinance shall be in force in
the Departments from the day on which it shall have
been registered at the Prefecture, conformably to Art. 4
of the Royal Ordnance of the 27th November, 1826.

" Art. 7. Our Minister Secretary of State for the
Home Department is charged with the execution of the
present Ordinance, which will be inserted in the Bulletin
of the Laws.
" Given at our Palace of St. Cloud, the 16th of May,
of the year 1830, and the 6th of our reign.
(Signed) " CHARLES.
" By the King,
" The Minister Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment. " MONTBEL."

" I write with all the advantages which my having been an eye-
witness of former errors and mismanagement can confer. I sancta.
be the commencement of the two last wars in 1778 and 1793, and
the circumstances which I shall presently state will, I think, con-
vince my readers that, at both the above named periods, many op-
portunities of achieving brilliant successes were lost, and incalculable
injury inflicted by our enemies on our commercial marine, in conse-
quence of the vicious system which at that time prevailed to the
greatest extent (and is even now far from being totally eradicated,)
of adhering to old models and old classes in the construction of our
ships of war, instead of carefully observing the improvements intro.
ducing around us, and more especially amongst our most formidable
rivals."
This observation is thus Illustrated.

" When Count D'Ertaing appeared on the coast of America, in

1778. with twelve sail of the line, he had two eighty-four gun
ships, six seventy-fours, three sixty-fours, and one fifty-four; while
Lord Howe's fleet of thirteen consisted of one seventy-four, sewn
sixty-fours, and five fifties; numerically, indeed, superior, but
so much the reverse in point of actual force, that that
brave officer did not venture to engage them until he could find
an opportunity of bringing his fire-ships in aid of his attack. And
a most convincing proof of our inferiority was afforded a few days
afterwards, when the fleets having been separated and dispersed by
a gale of wind, two of our fifty-gun ships fell in with two of the
French eighty-fours very much disabled ; and although both en-
pgementa appear to have lasted several hours, and to have com-
menced under circumstances the most favourable to the English,
they were in each case finally obliged to retreat on the appearance of
fresh ships coming to the assistance of their antagonist. A third
action, fought at the same time between the Isis of fifty and Le
Cesar of seventy-four, was equally indecisive. How different would
have been the result if our ships had been seventy-fours or eighty.
gun ships I and what a change in the aspect of the first naval cam-
paign would the capture or destruction of three of D'Estaing's
squadron (one of them his own flag-ship) have produced! The
history of that war will furnish abundant instances of similar and
most mortifying failures, all, or almost all, attributable to the
unwise and impolitic government of our naval administration during
the preceding peace, and to the inferior description of ships which
we had persisted in building."
The author seems to have Leen feelingly alive to
the humiliation and disgrace which attended us through-
out the contest with the United States.
" The war svi.h the United States," says he, "had but too clearly
devtloptd the system of naval policy on which our new rival fir
maritime superiority was successfully acting. Their three principal
classes of ships, although nominally of the sante force as our own,
were really nearly one-third superior in size, calibre of guns, and
number of men; and vat iota unsuccessful actions had but too
clearly proved that neither professional skill nor :he most brilliant
personal courage and exertions could compensate for this great dis-
poportion of force."
It wits in the face of the errors and disasters, so
clenrly pointed out in these pages, that orders were given
in 1820 for constructing fourteen of the old class of
twenty-eight-gun frigates, " which had been, frond their
had qualities, totally exploded during the last war."
Of the ten-gun brigs, those " sailing coffins," as they
are emphatically designated by naval uwn, the author
thus expresses himself :
" With respect to the ten-gun brigs, of which we appear to be se
fond, and on which, during the last ttn years, such large sums
must have bees laid out, I can only say that in my judgment they
are entirely unfit for every purpose of war, as they sail Wilt.
ferently, and ars in point of force inferior to asset privateers. I
would therefore almost pledge my mistimes, net SIB et them is
seen on the sea in six months after the assimnswinen of heetUides.
How those who have lavished the public mossy so this seem apse
class of vessel, will then be able to justify tbssmelves, I di am pro.
Name to conjecture."
This opinion will be re-echoed by the whole navy of
England ; and here we may be permitted to state, that
of all the recent arrangements, that by which thp
above wretched class of vessels wore cosvertal
into packets, and selected to perform the duties
of the Poet-olice, is among- the pant glaring ever
witnessed during any period of ontaltimiadministratim