The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVKNING, JULY 26, 1866.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The SPIAZU took the their et 12 o'clock.
PRIVATB BUBTIipE.

The following iiirsW;;;;eadr third tams and pawl:
Bast India Irrigation and Canal, Madras Irritation and
Canal, Rawson 's Refute, Sutherland-Walker's &tate.

DOCKYARD MANAGEMENT.
Upon the motion for going into supply,
Mr. SEELY rose to call the attention of the bows to
the general administration and to the accounts of her
Majesty's dockyards, and the two returns, Nos. 465 and
465 1., dated the 4th day of July, 1865 ; and to move the
following resolutions :—l. That the course
That
in
paving the roadways, workshops, and other in the
aockyardswithironballsetwssinespedient. 2. anchors
are provided for the use of her Majesty's navy, without a
due regard to economy. 3. That the manner in which the
affairs of the dockyards have been managed in these and
other respects renders it desirable that the superin-
tendents should be possessed of • practical know-
ledge of the business carried on therein, and
that it is also desirable that their term of
office should not be limited to a period of five years.
He said that the returns 463 and 485 I. showed
that the work done at Chatham mat half the rate
book price, whilst at Portsmouth the cost was twice that
rate, and upon inquiry it turned out that • blunder in the
accounts mainly led to this
discrepancy. The
hove member entering into • criticism of the
of keeping accounts at the
nert different dockyards, pointed out the great variations
in the rate of charge at each pleas with regard to boats,
forging, and other matters, and urged the necessity of
some reform with a view to members of parliament and
the public having the means of arriving at the truth. They
ought to have Maras from every dockyard showing the
amount the authorities of it had received and the work
they had done for it, similar to the accounts supplied
by the army manufacturing establishments. In March
1865, Lord Clarence Paget said he would not be satisfied
until the aooounts for the navy were prepared in accord-
' awe with the principle of amounts observed in the com-
mercial world, in order to show what was the actual cost
of building ships compered with buying them.
(Left sitting.]

SHARE LIST&-(THIS DAY.)

Oil o'ol.ooz.
The railway market to-day is steady, with only
a limited amount of business, and little change in
prices. The only alteration worth mentioning is a
rise of per cent. in Lancashire and Yorkshire
stock.
London and North-Western stock is now quoted
118 to ; Great Western, 524 to 534 ; Midland,
1254 to ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1234 to
124 ; South-Eastern, 67 to 4 ; Great Eastern, 294
to 4 ; Caledonian, 124 to 126 ; Metropolitan,
131 to 1324 ; Great Northern, 1214 to 1224 ; ditto
A, 129 to 130 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover,
22 to 23.
There is a relapse of per cent. in Grand Trunk
of Canada Railway stock, which is now quoted 214
to 224. Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares are dull,
at 154 to 4.

ORDINARY MARLS AND BTOCILL

90 92
MI 114 ZS
$6 41
11 16
4 •
If TO
TO 11

111 114
pi Ko
6 s

110 121
112 in

Sakti to-day
to I p.m.

US!

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