The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-25 00:00:00

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OP LONDON.
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HENRY DESBOROUGH. Jun. Secretary.
Chupside, London, 19th March, 1893.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, Macs 24.

At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the Lord Chancel-
lor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Melville, attended
as Commissioners, and notified the Royal Assent to the
Army and Mutiny Bills, the Irish Yeomanry Corps' Bill,
the Irish Arms' Bill, the Plymouth Gas Light Bill, the
Severn Bridge Bill, and some private Bills. The House
then adjourneil until half-past four.
Earl BATHURST presented a Petition from certain
Trustees of Turnpike-roads in the County of Glou-
cester, against some clauses in the General Turnpike
Act. •
The Marquess of HERTFORD presented a petition
from several persons in Cornwall against the Veal
Duties.
Lord SALTOUN presented Petitions from the Islands
of St. Vincent, Nevis, and the Virgin Islands in the West
Indies, complaining of Colonial Distress, and praying
for relief.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition
from Honiton, in Devonshire, against the Insolvent
Debtors' Act.
Mr. Irvine, from the Custom-house, presented Annual
Returns respecting the trade and navigation of. Great
Britain and Ireland.
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THE NAVY.
The Earl of DARNLEY, aftermaking some introduc-
tory obseavations, which we could not distinctly bear,
expressed his satisfaction to find that a plan of retrench-
ment and economy, with regard to the expenses in the
King's Dock-yard and the building of ships, bad been
adopted, and that these expenses were much curtailed,
while our naval force was increased iby an addition of
3,000 men. He wished at the same time to impress on
their Lordships and his Majesty's Government that in
this great naval country, the first object should be at all
sloes to add to, instead of diminishing its naval force;
and lie assured the House that had a larger addition than
3,1100 seamen been proposed, he should have most readily
voted for such an- inc eeeee . He could not help observing
on this occasion, that the late negociatlons carried on by
our Minister at Verona ought to have been backed by an
increased naval preparation, that should.have convinced
the great Powers of Europe that we bad in readiness the
memos of enforcing our demands, if necessary to do so.
Had this been done, be was sure we should not be in our
present state of uncertainty and embarrassixent, with
regard to the part we might hereafter be obliged to take
in the war. It was his opinion that, during those.nego-
elation', we ought to have had a squadron of observation
out at sea. By such a proceeding peace might have been
more securely preserved in the first instance; whereas an
appearance of want of preparation might show that we
entertained fears of going to war, and provoke other
posers to act in such a way as eventually to force us into
war. He hoped and trusted that the country would not
be involved in war ; but be did not think that the present
course pursued byGoverament was.the best vans of pre-
serving peace.