New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-24
GREAT BRITAIN.

GREAT BRITAIN.
In the House Of Commons, on the lOtn lns';, Loio
Robert Montague inquired when t&pt. Goes nFsi
submitted to the Admiralty big plans whicn Daa
lately been adoped for sli0s-Oi-war, whetheT t'aI
report wac favorable otherwise, and Il there was
apy objection 10 lay the papers on the table:
Lord G. Paget s,id that there was no objection 10
Iav npon the table tho whole correspondence be-
tvycen lie Admiralty and Capt. Co1es but he must
ob;ect 10 rubbish the reports made contidenually 10
the Admiralty. lie would however, etate that the
report upon Capt. COless invention ives most
fayorablg That officer had been at once placed ON
full nav and wee also receiving 81 per dem while
he was engaged in preparing certain plans Tor the
Admiralty.
Lord Fermoy asked whether Mr. Alexander
Eamuelson had not far back as last Autumn, sen.
into The Admirul,y plans for d0ubie-skinnea sell
sobmoreng gun-bOat similar 10 The Asugstuck, built
nv Mir Stevens for the Federal Government OF
America, and Il 30, whether steps wonld be taken
~ haye tie plan tested and adopted az 1t had been IN
Amcrica
H.. S4nuelscn hsd not afforded the Admirably an
Opportunity Of testing them.
ar. II. i. Sheridan asked whether it was true
that st Snoe5uFs2ss, on The AA the targej or-sec-
too Of the Warriors -ide was iWice pierced through
by yound sbot gad wisbeG Tor full particular O as 10
experiments, Nc
tried with 56 pound shot, and 40 pounds o powder,
"a distance OF sJU y1Ids. Inc target uhfIlg btru
good deal slukeu by previous eXl erIinents ana not
oArr the zane resistance the original target, and
The frst shot which struck l. . weaker pOint than
the rest OF the target passed through 70 thcirol plates
aud toe teak backing and was arrested ~ se inner
skin OF iron wbch, however was crushed by toe dow.
But another shot fined with 10 ponds of powder went
through in eHch q manner that the most dreadful de-
srueliom wOpid have been caneed TO the ship. The
third shot at the TeQge8t oi Sir ". Armstrong, was
fired vi / 20 peunGs Of powder, and tbdt shot went
n lirnuni the fgrvt.t.
Sir John Pakinton wished 10 know ii the account
which had appeared in The Vsmes was pnolished
with the SANCTION and authority oi tho Admiralty,
and whether the noble Lord thought II wise and pru
dent tha, IT shond be published.
Lord {. pase, said that the Admiralty had not
given any tiDd Of sanction to the publication Of tine
report in QUESTION. IL was very moot point
whether j. vas desable that al these costly per
imenis ought 10 be Published loud cries Of beef,
hear.
A bil providing fer the erection Of Palace Of
Justice, and the concentration of al The Law and
EQUITY Courts within t was debated, and finally re-
iecged by majority Of two against tie Govern
Iaeut.
In the House Of Lords on the lltb, Lord Vivian
put some qnestions ss 10 the Intentions Of the Gov
ernment with respect 70 the forlihcstioDs az Spit
head and the recent experiments al ShoebuIyoess.
Earl De Grey and kipOn e&pi,lned the views Of
tie Government, dcprccaung any hasty action. He
confirmed the account OF tbe experiments at Shoe
buryness, and said they sb0wed that tho country
r{nf no fpa Dtfiit ~ NrIJft itoN iuc piDhf tt-
Iberately adopted. lie admitted the great import
aLce OF floating batteries, particularly supprmen
tary 10 forts bus did not regard thela as wholly &c
halle.
The Duke of Cambridge expressed bis opinion
shat forts wo1id no found 20 DC Indispensable and
saId he believed Sir w Armstrong would soon
produce q 6O0-pounder gun which would do the
sane mischief al 200 yards HE 3OO-p0unGe, had
done ~ 2h yards.
Ths Duke OF Somerset defended the policy Of The
Admiral aud g.Id ffey IN mo
ceed a, with Capt. COies's aud other Ilans lie
argued, however, that they should nos bs swayed
b. every popular panic
IN me House Of Commons, OH the raroe evening
ST. c. Bowyer called attention to the ssir Of Italy,
and general debate on the subject eD-ued, IN the
course OF which some Of the irih members bitterly
denounced The policy Of the Government, and 4inis
kre responded
Lord palmerston expressed his opinion that sooner
or later ne unity Of italy would be completed by
the pose sion Of Rome and that the abdicston Of te
Popes temporal power would increase bs spiritual
auirOIiiy.
Both houses adjourned til the 2'th inst.
l. was considered highly probable that the parl
peBtry session vOnld not extend beyond the middle
o. July; pefnaps not beyond the end Of June.
The resgl.s Of the recent e1usordiuafy oxpeii-
ments with monster Armstrong guu al shOebuIy-
ress furnish the English journals with the leading
editorial theme. II IL generally asserted that theSe
experiments lave fully proved that tue science Of
ittack has agsa fairly surpasssd tbe science Of Do
eise 0ud that the power Of gJSs ag inst ships has
,een reasseIted.
The PaTis correspondent of .fhe London Tines
bus wsltes Of The pr.scnt aspect 0. The heAicsn
iueGi n:
A sganish Ministerial paper tle C1yrespoadea-
lq Il hadJid. says u j. authorized 10 announce that
ic Government has intention ~ concluding "A
resh treaty win France on tie sld'Fs Of Mexico;
NJ u adds i IL quite possible the Cabisets Of Paris
l1Ldon aud Madrid viii concert tOCet'cr with
. " oi mshng certaig clauSes Of Tie convention ~
nore explicit This last sentence il ez DlaiDed by
iie fast that the Spanish Government has atimaed y
0 The French that il wOald have no objection N "a v
conference fortie purpose q. removing any obvcusity
the pIesent stipulation, and that the French Gov u
rlme1t has declined tie proposal on the pronud y
haI II "aA not Dccessary, Admiral JCrien 9. Ia VI
Vierfe hes not ouiy been instructed o. conitne
lMeei 10 his duties ~ commander Cf TIE squaJ- II
On, tus has been Informed in II believe q ~
op.ohcia letter that II he thinks proper to return ~
3 Ffaace he is Of liberty 70 do 20. That gallant u
ccr can only Interpret tho ntioison iu ore sense ii
nd will, perlGps, act upon IT, the Tortait that ~
,Ok out Gen. Lorencez and his staff TO Vera Cruz "
stunned 70 Cherb0urg on Tuesday evening. The
.counts che brin0e are not important. The Frenen "
we're not expected 10 srrive in
exico before tho 9th Of March, and tho General NJ
ar etili determined not ~ 70 the interior until
ey joined lin. Gen. Prin adhcres 20 The Con.
'ntlop CT .Soisdad, sad bio Coyerpmen., though