Maritime Warfare; the Importance to the British Empire of a Complete System of Telegraphs, Coaling Stations, and Graving Docks

upon the subject now before us, I was apprchensive that, in the difficulty of finding time to collect data, it would not be possible to give a sufficicntly clcnr expression of the views indicated in the few remarks which I was allo~ved to offer upon Captain Scott's paper on " Maritime Warfare."What me require is correct and unprejudiced information, considered solely in its bearing on the national interests.Hence there was on the one hand theconsideration that I might injure the object which I hail in view by falling short of the requirements referred to, while, 011 the other hand, there was the desire to stir up additional interest in the subject.I was induced, hoFever, to make the attempt, hoivevor imperfectly,