Mr. Goschen has just presented to the House of Commons'his memorandum on the Navy Estimates. From this it appears that we are to spend nearly three millions more on the navy next year than we have done in the financial year which is just expiring. There is nothing to surprise anybody in the announcement. "Phe snarl programme which is to be carried out with the twenty-six and a half millions to be voted has long been announced and few people will be found to contend in view of the expansion of the empire and the greater necessity of our holding
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