The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-30 00:00:00

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THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
MOVEMENT.

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LONDON, TVEDNBBD.AY, MAY 30.

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

The Maniasr of yesterday announces that the Mi-
nister of the Marine and of the Colonies has received
from Vim-Admiral Brnat a despatch to the following
effect:

SEA OF AZOFF, MAT 25.

Our expedition has perfectly succeeded.
The batteries on the coast at Kett& and Yenikele
are in our power.
The Russians burnt three of their steamers, and
some 30 transports and trading vessels. As many
were captured.
In the evening we entered the Sea of Azoff.
The Russians burnt their magazines at liertch,
which contained 160,000 sacks of oats, 360,000 sack,'
of corn, and 100,000 ache of dour.—Doily News.

Yesterday's Mositeur also notifies in its official pert
the reception at the Tuilleries, by the Emperor, of
Lord Cowley, who, at a special audience, has de-
livered to His Imperial Majesty the reply of Queen
Victoria to the letters putting an end to the mission
which Count Waleweki filled at the court of London.
In the nonofficial part, the presentation of Special
Commissioners to the Exhibition from Belgium, and
of several American officers is announced, and the
movements of the Kiog of Portugal in Paris are re-
corded. There is also an official report to Prince
Napoleon, giving an sceount of the results of the
liberality of the Emperor in offering to workmen: a
free admission to the Exhibition on Sunday. Ac-
cording to this account 105,022 persons availed
themselves of the invitation.—Doily News.

VIENNA, SUNDAY EVZNING.
Prince Gortchakoff has coofirred to-day with Count
Buol.

The reply of Paris and Loudon to the last proposi-
tions of Austria has not yet arrived.

Some of the devices resorted to for the purpose of
throwing discredit on the Administrative Reform
movement are amusing enough. One of the newest
is, with a grave face, to call upon those who take part
in it to explain what they mean by Administrative
Reform. The best way to answer such querists
would be to tell them, as Dr. Joutirsox once told a
putter of similar silly questions—" Sir, I am bound
to find you arguments, but not understanding."
Ministers at least, it is pretty clear, have a tolerably
accurate conception of what is meant by Administra-
tive Reform. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, for ex-
ample, so far from affecting not to know what it
means, candidly told his Southwark constituents
that its necessity would become apparent if Mr.
DISRAELI'S motion were carried. And Admiral
BERKELEY, without waiting for any such convincing
argument as a vote of censure of the House of Com-
mons, tells his constituents—" I am quite olive to the
necessity of reforming, or rather eradicating, these
evils"—i.e., the defects of the administrative depart-
ments of government. True, the gallant Adm'ral
goes on to say that he regrets "so much exaggera-
tion and so many false statements should have been
pads within and without the walls of Parliament on
such subjects; but it has been the practice of con-
fessing delinquents to extenuate their offences as
much as possible, ever since the dap of the frail
spinster who pleaded guilty to the charge of having
had a child, but added that it was " a very little
one."

Another of the devices alluded to is to insinuate,
or boldly assert, that the movement is entirely
factitious—got up by a few ambitions men who seek
to raise an agitation that may carry them into Parlia-
ment. This imputation may be disproved very
easily : let any man take in his hand a list of the
chief promoters of the London Administrative Reform
Association—the body which has as yet taken the
most prominent part in the movement—and go into
the City and ascertain their character, position, and
relations. He will find that the great majority of
them are men to whom Ministers might with the
utmost safety offer plats, secure that their tastes,
and the immense interests which demand
their constant attention, would debar them from
accepting it. We may add that we learn, from
a source as to the reliability of which there can be no
doubt, that it is a standing rule of the Association,
that no person can have seat or voice in the business
committee who is a member of Parliament, or who
aspires to become one, although the co-operation and
fellowship of no men, or class of men, are rejected. This
"self-denying ordinance" appears to us judicious ; not
because we have any distrust of a man merely because
he devotes himself to public business as a profession,
bat because it will relieve the members of the com-
mittee from • world of solicitation, which might be
brought to bear with some hopes of success upon
politicians, but which would obviously be thrown
away upon men whe are determined to stick to their
industrial pursuits..
But, for our own part, so far from thinking it any
objection to the organised movement to obtain Admi-
nistrative Reform that it is likely to be joined by
some who look to it as a means of introducing them-
selves to a public career, we hope that it may secure
the services of many such. The public cannot divine
instinctively who the men are that are capable of
serving them well and effectively. The man who
aspires to become a legislator or administrator must
emhraoe such opportunities as offer to show the
public that he possesses knowledge, talents, intre-
pidity, and firmness. It will be better for theeountry
to select its servants from among those mbo have
won their spurs by legitimate agitation than
to take unknown men upon trust beam they are
recommended by some influential pates& Aslblis
necessarily trains public men. A pang MS Ali
in some movement of the day, without -y odor IDs
tention than to forward it. He is found to passes'
• talent for impressive speaking, or for soothing
asperities among those with whom he
co-operates,
and a great part of the business is thrown upon his
shoulders. The character of the professional politi-
cian is thus developed in him, and his time is so occu-
pied that he is withdrawn from his former pursuits.
He has nothing toe it but to blow out the ovum
ion which be has entered unawares. Hence
has come that every great national agitation we

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