The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-18 00:00:00

paters. Unless Kr.
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pears that ao young plead
of oaadid' etas-anises he applies thavagh sews imp-
ammeter a the dbovereiggil....lB -IsSmiantiows to
,••••811i ,fee • clerkship sea ee petty a haggles to a
Ministry, is it not strange that they elleald be so
jealously reetaieted to Mialiterislists? if the desire
to enter the public denim is se deensealia-
ing, is it not strange that public area vse
deeply imoiressed with the dagger whisk
the Britiesh youth should mien their appeigissaregt
entirely for their own binds? Caomwelill s♦
nennoirog the English orewe is infinitely lees bee.
reatiari than Lord PAIMIIIITON or Sir WiltiAlant
HATir.sa in hie early days refusing I. alakmai a
liberal member's protest became to melt gems-
strut employment injures independence and inesality,,
If no better objectice to the motion. of Mr.
RITINEsBT could be cemeactod than this, it wee
Nicely hardly wire to =sheeny objection whatever.
Now that the Committee is carried, it is to be
lisped that the ardnal state of thins will he the-
gaighly investigated. The question is • mw
quagga of Met. What is the present mode,
nut may of examining, bat of wessinaliteg candidata
for the Civil Service Soma attempt was made to
ignore the question et nomination; hut the Nome
was not to be soloed. ha the practice is
notorious enough; bat to have it proved before a
Committee of the Mean sea vie inching bat good.
At resew, then, so young's& can compete with-
out a smoination, and a useainatin no on an get
except throve' a private hind sr public supporter
of the Minister. Talk et the Minister examining
the moral inalium et his nominees. He does
'Nothing of the sort. The Civil Service COMMiII6IOIIIIIII

have shown Mat newsiness of Ministers have been
injected en sacral mends. The right to nominate is
in fact a valuable right of patronage, and it is so
essesidesed by every "abbe mate. It is admitted that
eppeintmensis, whoa they wore made directly, were
generally ostrupt, and therefore the new system was
introdissed. It is equally Notorious now that nomi-
nations are given by mere favour, and that in some
competitmas incompetent candidates are made to
wateod for the specific purpose of enabling the
minister's protégé to win his plum under the term of
a contest. In feet. it is hardly an exaggeration to
say with Mr. Roxancx that there is no free com-
petition for tce public service—the whole thing is a
sham. Nos there anything impracticable in con-
verting it into a reality. The last report of the Civil
Service Commissioners conclusively showed that a
genuine open competition for public appointments
was perfectly practicable, and had been in some cases
carried into effect.

TEM statements made last night by Lord Gams-
mut, in the House of Lords, and Lord Joan
Rtnisittx, in the House of Commons, respecting the
eamounid annexation of Savoy to France, are likely
to be unsatisfactory to most Englishmen, not b•oress
they contain too little information, but because they
toll too much. In any ease, however, it is better to
know the whole truth. The Government of France
openly maintains its right to maks its frostier
same against the strong state which the will of
Italy I. erecting at its doors. It has told our Ambas-
sador so, in answer to official inquiries. Bat the claim
is accompanied by two declarations the ra'Ale of
which will depend very mach on the capacity of
actiog in concert which the Powers of Europe may
manifest at the proper time. The French Government
suites that it will not proceed to annex Savoy
against the wishes of the people; and aho that it
will not do so without consulting the Great I,
Powers of Europe. Unquestionably it is bound to
do both. It will be for Germany and Switzerland,
es
immediately affected by the proposed meestire,
mad for Russia and England, as interested only in a
speondary degree, to examine the bearings of the
proposed change on the independence and security
• Central Europe. For as, however, the chief inte-
rest of the question is derived from sympathy with
the free spirit of the Savoyards, and a profound
distrust of an Imperial plelorseirsins as a means of
ascertaining the real wishes of the population. The
mind of England has been pretty plainly expressed,
and although it is impassible to be blind to the
insincerity and fanaticism which have now and then
disfigured the parliamentary debates on this subject,
it is beyond doubt that on the whole the recent die.
Oliiiiollll fairly represent the opinion of the country.

Ova House of Commons report shows the form
into which, atter many changes, the Tory resolution
to be moved u an amendment to the Budget has at
length crystallised. The House is to be invited to
recognise " the necessity for increased expenditure
" in the coming financial year," but to add a dale-
?aim of its opinion that " it is not expedient to add
"to the existing deficiency by diminishing the ordi-
" salty revenue," and to affirm that "it is not pre-
"pared to disappoint the just expectations of the
" imentry by a large increase of the income tax.%
The large estimates were sure to find favour
with the Opposition ; it is only the com-
mercial reforms 'which the old Protection-
ist party object to. A judicious fogginess
has been imported into the latter part of the resolu-
tion. Th. "ordinary revenue "of the country is not
diminished in any practical wed business-like sense
by Kr. OLADSTORWR propositions. It is merely
changed, u happens more or las every year. If the
CHANCILLOR of the Exculecitien had left the deficit
he found in the national balance-sheet, language like
that of this resolution would have some meaning,
Bat it is on the popular dislike of an Income Tax
that the muddling concoctoes of the resolution
rely. Well, they are not so wide of the mark
there. Everybody dislikes the Income Tax;
°sly we mistake if the country will not per-
save that sines three millions are to be added to the
war setimater, the money must be found somewhere :
and farther, that if this can bs doe*, sad four million.
of that " ordinary revenge," so eripplisg to COMINVOS.
but so dear to Tories and Protectionist., can be
knocked away in return for an additional one penny
to the Income Tax, the gain will be cheaply par-
chased.

Last eveniog the Mayor of Southampton gave a
snot briquet air the Audit Rowe to the *webs rad °Morn
el the Premien frigate AIKOSa, now lying In the fk.oth-
empess Medic Tie ream woe decorated with the standard
Imp of eerier settees. tied preesated a gay eppnweare.
The spiesild bead of the frigate wu I. attipedst sad oon-
*Meted te the beraietty of the wee*. The 131810 f wee rap-
b446.6i erbahilleadewall (of the frigate Aotione). Major
Meath (of bee Mejwity's frigate Mound's.),
Ceigklia twice, BMW Bomett, Major CMOs, Captain
Ac The tonal loyal touts win given, with the
MirkPriors Rust of Pramie;the Priam sad Prisons
William et Prat. the Newebere et the bierosith,
Ceatalla Onadewsli cad *a eaten of the Numbs frigate
Asada, to.
arras GILT Itmorouvai Szwza.—The great
a fewer Is shoat to be armasmas4 in the Suet.
fold , sod lambi Rtes last ohm sosatlis trove 40 to 60
anvil@ Iwo bus eseareelaing the amen of the soil betwees
St attend end SerMag-meet. Lorton bine day le toned on
s• sommeage 10 IL below the surfers, bet la some pleas It ii .
from 10 It. le 17 a. amp. Is the vicipity ef Buldag creek
time lea gas may NA sad ispeeits of shells *bleb twee
Item tIJ Led fir the cooolareloo that to a remote as-
liquify the dietrict was covered by the we.
CRYSTAL PALACIL—Mdar. PiTCoioMini, having
returned to London, will slag at the concert this day.