THE NAVY ESTLNIATES.
Immediately after the second reading of the Income-tax Bill, the House went into Committee of Supply. Sir Charles Wood was about to make a statement, when Mr. GLADSTONE said he had inadvertently allowed the House to go into Committee without moving his intended resolution for the revision and reduction of expenditure. The Cmaratzast said that the resolution could not be proposed in Committee of Supply. Mr. GLADSTONE pleaded that he had been taken by surprise : he was engaged in conversation with a Member when his turn came, and he hoped Sir Charles Wood would allow the House to resume. Lord JOHN RUSSELL confirmed Mr. Gladstone's statement—it was he who was in conversation with him. He hoped Sir Charles would give way to Mr. Gladstone's request. Sir CHARLES declined; thinking it was "better to proceed to business."
Sir Outrun WOOD then briefly stated, that he proposed to take sums on account of each vote equal to about one-third of the whole item, The vote now submitted to the House was, that for the four months after the 1st of April next the number of men and boys employed in her Majesty's Naval and Coast Guard services should be 53,700, including 15,000 Royal Marines. After a good deal of amicable conversation, this vote, and several others for sums on account, were agreed to.
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