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LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPT. 27.

THE rapid increase of oar Naval Expen.liture en-
tailing upon the Mihisters of the day the necessity
of producing and defending estimable of enormous
magnitude in Parliament, it occurred to Sir JORN
P iitstanN, when First Lord of the Admiralty, to
fortify his department by appointing three Com-
mittees of Investigation, upon whose reports our
naval admiaistratioo might be, in case of need, ins.
proved or vindicated. There was the Financial
Committee, consisting of Maws. CARRY, HAMILTON,
AN t,txqost, and Sir IitcHARD BRONLIT, to inquire
why the navy is more expensive than formerly ; the
Committee on the Steam Machinery of the Navy.
of which Admiral HAMMEN. Mr. NAsmrra, sad
Mr. WARD were members; sad, lastly, there was a
Committee to inquire into the labour in our dock-
yards. The desirableness of revising the scheme
and examining the efficiency of oar naval establish-
'atilt', from time to time, will be seen from the fact
that we h►ve spent in the course of the last six years
no less than 12,286,000/, on shipbuilding, steam
machinery, and fitting ships foe ma and commis-
sion. The amount voted for establishment chug.'

for the naval yards of Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham,
Stumm, Portsmouth, Devonport, and Pembroke,
for this present year is 116,0001.; while the
sum voted far workmen's wages in the same yards
is 1,232,0001. These ware are paid. to 13,290
persons : to 4,000 shipwrights, 330 eaalkare, 610
joiners, 342 sawyers, 876 entitle, 486 millwrights
and weeklies at milk, 394 riggers, 204 sailmakees,
427 spinals, 1,106 exerciiirig unclusifisd trades,
sad 2,076 labourers, and 2,440 men engaged in the
steam &axiom. We quote these figures to show the
grand scale upon which every organic defect in our
dockyard administration must be repeated. The
labours of the last Duekyard Commission followed
the Parliamentary Committee on Naval Expenditure
which set in 1848, wince which date, se we all know,
great and important changes have takes place in
our naval requirements.

The Dochiard Committee was composed of Rear-
Adatirel SMART, Chairman ; %% HENRY CHATFIELD
master shipwright at Deptford ; Mr. ANDREW MIll•,
RAT, thief engiseer at Portsmouth; Mr. ROBEZT
LAWE, eterekesper at Chatham ; sod Mr. Hosea/
Bownsti, civil engineer and Alp baildar, of the
Rest lailin-road.The Report is only signed by keret
these gentlemee, Mr. CIIATTIELD strongly protesting
against the couttleeione of his colleagues. Thu
Committee in the first place tete a puma
view of the whole system of conducting the
business of the dockyards, and then re-
port In detail upon each trade. Their Ant
remark is, that " the quantity of the week
t• done in the dockyards is still below the standard of
..well•conducted priests establishments." This le

the keynote to the whole Report. The Committee
eimatantly compare the results of Governmeat labour
with theme of commercial enterpeise, and the meek
is what might have been expected. Mr. Citalntim.
on the other hand, and Sir Bat.hort:t WaLath. Bar-
Toyer-Gemmel et the Navy,ia his "Itemearks,"whiMli
an appointed tot's* Report, struggle with this tat
dopey. Mr. Caarotatto maintains that so far Ns
assimilating the management of week in the royal
dockyards to the system observed to prima' was-
blieliolote, we should Mho great airs to avoid bai-
tatiai that system. He templaine or at Melt pills
oak that the propo.al to aradact the dockyards
ti• beteg pimples earl to adept the system mar
teed in the private made, is dos to the bet that
there were two engineers on the Committee, whilst
he aloes repreerated the ship-Ouldieg deparlowst.
A brief accoust of a Report which consists si
more than a thoumad paragraphs, and ex-
tends ever 91 folio pages, meat weeds be very gine-
rat. The Committee recommend changes affecting
the whole constitution sad working of the dock-
yards. They estimate every mod* of working and
paying simply by its results. They find that the
supervisico of the yards is defective ; that
there is too little easiest among the °Mews ea
to the hosiers' of the day ; that reeponiibilfty
is too much divided sod not sufficiently
ds-
Loed ; that while the qoality of Ilse week has
received great atteatioe, its cost has been sadly
turieeted ; that the positkie and authority of the
practical foremen in the yards is not irefacimaly
mooed in the eyes of the workmen and that the
system of superannuation, which is founded am tie
permanence of employment, hinders the discharge of
inefficient workmen. They further condoms the
three system under which permeate are made to
the workmen for their labour performed in the yob.
'May condemn the " tub and job" system, by whisk
a cathode sum of mosey I. paid for each specific week
in detail, according to an established system of
prices, because they find that the system does not
provide for limiting the coat of the who!' ship.
Turn they report that "sister corvettes of 1.462 toes
" have coot upwards of 3,0001. rims for shipwrights"
labour in one yard than another, though both were
paid for by niessarement of the week upon them,
seder the some scheme of pries., and thsegh the
work upon both most hays hew county kleutical.s
In like manner they soaliellle the system of " day
week with check enessommest," because it cheeks
tha seargiss of the men was are 'lemony indorsed
to vale. the week al It programs, and to ezeseleae
more than will nail the wages. They prepare le
abolish them tee sperm/ elagether. As a sok&
two they proper, that whoa a ship is to be Wilt,
the plan to be feßeerel shall be that practised by
the ship-builders is the Thames; that is to say, to
tit a prise per tea fee ship-beildieg Lebow for the
ship, the pries 'varying ateredigte theta's* sad pre.
portions of the ship end eke Mad* sad the quality
of the week required. The ship Wag divided into
certain stages of week, the prleetele paid tier work-