The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1849.

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dieing soistanis at the Ire, fall down one of the pits, and
eras striossly U net fealty injured.

FINANCIAL RBFOR3L
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pabMs waft,: the lababitaata of die bareagh of Wake
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aid aposfillta proloadiam Mt martini war satiagasatly
adirolood by Mr. T. IL Roam Mr. C. Motarawtho Bar. E.
ntr.lsad tabor aoadsosa, sad a petition was adopted
ies of Mr. Cabala', As dilemma reform,.

THE ADMIRALTY OFFICE.
Mom Ws It has On &Oat Cossittos os Aram, from sod
Ordains fisfkoffa
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No se of 1847.48 onfillis a omit flimintissi el
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The estiaste for 184549 is 118.1831.
The sharps wader vote No. 3 tsarist asset **timely of
axed sslasfes, w, that the whole expenditure, with the ea-
eltseta taw items, war be sesarately toresseo.
bashises et the admiralty is divided Wyse* the
saes at 191tbsidiewil se leatesset-beese. The several de-
partatestrare dioributsi woos. the Nimbus of the Board
4:m., or se that smelt toe of the Inds seassissiaters.
besides thwiteerd, breeds mammas with the de-
tails alb. bras& whisk is placed soder his ape-
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The-Yost Ilea Lord anise I. the &tribunes.' the !rat
sad the proposal= of Ore= I. ships in condones.
Another anal lord atteads to the —slag sad
nein*, sad to all manes connoted with the mad=
marine artillery.
A third superintends the balding seal repairing both et
sailiarent Mesa vans.
A berth nabob the purchase dad ablated of naval
stores sad of provision for the aavy ; the teansport service
gad the medical department are placed ender his am, is
wall se all clans for nations.
The junior lay lord superintends the lasses accounts, the
entineering and architectural weeks, and the packet sonic*.
The First Lard is cognisant of all that is in manes in
nee department, and exercises the general control which
sicessarly moompanies the thief responsildlity.
There are seven departments is the Admirelty-Office at
Somersethosse, named la the estimates as follows :—Sur-
mot of the Navy, Aeonstent-Gesin& SID/eke/per One-
val, Comptroller of Victualing and Trmonerm, Director.
General of the Medical Department, Comptroller of Steams
Machinery end of the Packet Servies, Director of Engineer-
ing and Architectural Works.
The nualase of clerks, Ike. in seek clam of the several de-
partments of the Admiralty is m follows: Whitehal—
-1 cretazy's instants. 44; hydrograpiam, 12. flontenet-
house—Barmen, ld ; . nonatant-generals, 123; sten-
keeper-separate, 24 s eemptrollen of victualling, 44; medi-
ae' direetora 12; director of works, 4; comptroller of steam,
10. Total, 289.
Snore information regarding the canon which hen led to
an increase I. the expenditure of the office will be found is
the evidercergiven by the Secretary of the Admiralty. It
appears that with the Minas. of naval foros, and et estab-
lishments at home and abroad. • corresponding halms has
arises in the daily bonus to be trunsaated ; besidn this
eatin it is also stand that many sew rules and regulating have
ben Introduced, which ban added considerably to the rou-
tine duties of the several departments. The istab:ishamin at
the Admiralty, we are told, although it hese( late yews ban
segmented, is still load, quite to the trunnion at the help
sem required ; and eonsequenr extra parents are made m
the clerks, who work additioaal boars; and extra sleeks en
employed beyond the number mactioned he the Treasury.
Then clerks receive the sem a t of palmy, sad form
es much a part of the ens went as the resalarly aye
pointed clerks, but they are employed without any previous
reference to the Treasury ; whereas any addition or alters. •
'ion is the establishment can rely be made after applicatics,
and with the easetioa of the Treasury.
The practise of employing ants clerks, which ken grown
into the spina of the Admiralty, is, ia the opinion of yea
committee, so objse tionable that it ought sot to be comatinued.
A rehrsan to the Tressuryalivions to the knew of their
establielments, was made • tory os the ether depart-
ments ot the governmeat, ter e purpose ett sioniag that•
control and semen= which constitute the onlycesch urea
the growing expenditure of the public Aims By the sio•
pitmen of extra clerks this chock is evaded.
Yon cousaittes renamed that the estaMbhment of the
Admiralty shield be recessidend, and that, when the
aataber of clerks shall have been find, with the undies at
the Treasury, se setts sleek be hereafter employed without
the written petunias of the Treasury. In reconsidering
the establishment, the employment of clerks for extra nun
which is admitted to be • bad expedient for the ;sable sin
vin, should be also referred to the Tommy, where the
practice of Merest departments can be compared, mad the
duties of the clerks menallated in regard to the hens of
daily attendance, scale of remuneration, and period annul
holidays.
There ban increased darn of 5001. in the salary of the
second secretary, with meld to which your committee called
for some explanation. The letter to the Treasury, and the
reply sanctioning this increase, will be found in the evidence,
together with the minute of the Bard of Admiralty redone
tog the increase.
The Deputy Aceountant-General of the Navy wee list ap-
pointed by an order in council dieted let of February,
made in consequene of an applicaticm of the Lords
loans of the Admiralty, who stated that the control nor
the payments would thus be rendered more efficient, mad
that the ultimate charge of this new appointment would sot
exceed 1001. per annum.
Ceder Vote No. 3 are placed the appointment, of vies-
admiral and rear admiral of Groat Britain. The committee
which examined into army and navy appointments in the
year 1833 observed, " these two appointments are visitable
from their antiquity, and still more se hem the emus of
those who have held them. They are Melanin him-
diately eonneated with the naval service, sad have always
been reckoned among theulet professional basteto
which a naval officer could as . The camomile, therefore
recommend that the it of vice-admiral ma me
admiral should remain on their reseal footing; the whole
emoluments of both being together lea than 8001. a yen."