The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1861.

enemies, amongst those placed in authority ; and
they have shown that they can nicely distinguish
between differing degrees of antagonism to their
hopes. To use the golden words of one of our
own truest orators, the Poles "have learned the
" lessons of liberty in the lair of oppression, and
" have come to comprehend accurately the dis-
" cretion of subjects and the duty of kings."
Another concession, about which we profess to
understand less, is that of a Council of State for
Russian Poland, which is to consist, it is said, of
persona of condition and character for ability, born
and resident in the land. The telegram published
some days ago was probably incorrect, certainly
premature, which stated that the distinguished
statesman whose name we have already
mentioned had been nominated President of this
new administrative body. It must be clear to all
who understand the working of responsible govern-
ment that the whole value of this last concession
must depend upon the colour and texture of the
materials whereof it is composed. Again, we would
have repeated in the ears of the Russian EMPEROR
that first and last of warnings to one in his posi-
tion—" No harking back." Better he had never
entered on the path of concession than, having
raised exciting hopes, that he should dash them to
the ground.

THE BUDGET.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will make his
financial statement on the 15th April.

reciprocal. As long as they do not become recon-
ciled France must wait meanwhile, guarding
Rome and the Pontifical territory. May Rome
understand the necessity of conciliating the support
of Europe and of the Italian nationality ; and may
Turin understand the necessity of conciliating the
support of Catholicism. The Holy Bee ought to
understand the impossibility of isolating itself from
Italy. Italy also must understand that she cannot
do without the Pope. The role of France is to
reconcile Italy and the Papacy.
The debate will be continued to-morrow.

The following telegrams have been received
at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company :

BOMBAY MAILS.

The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived atMar-
@ernes at 9 p.m., yesterday.
The mails left for London at 10p.m.
The Elora, with the heavy portion of the mail,
am., was to leave Malta at midnight on the 18th,
and may be expected at Southampton on the 27th
instant. The Orissa brought the mails to Suez,
arriving there on the 14th inst.

OUTWARD MAILS.
The Ceylon (from Southampton on the 4th of
March) reached Malta at 6 a.m. on the 13th, and
left at midnight for Alexandria.
The Euxine (from Marseilles on the 13th March)
arrived at Malta at 2 p.m., and sailed again at 8
a.m. on the 16th.

1 inaugural. The secession ordinance will conse-
quently be voted down in the Convention.
The first public reception at the White-house
under the new regime took place on the evening of
the Bth inst., and attracted a very numerous and
brilliant company.
A despatch from New Orleans states that the
opinion was rapidly settling down in political and
commercial circles there that Mr. Lincoln's inau-
gural meant war.
The legislature had passed a resolution approving
of the conduct of General Twiggs in surrendering
the Federal property in Texas to the authorities of
that state.

The latest advices stated that Lieut. Slemmer
was engaged in raising a sand battery about a quar-
ter of a mile eastward of Fort Pickens, and that the
work in the land batteries on the beach opposite
Warrington was being continued.
The New York Herald says that the commis-
sioners from the Southern Confederacy would not
be recognised. They would report at Montgomery,
when it was believed President Davis would order
General Beauregard to demand of Major Anderson
the surrender of Fort Sumter.
The Unionists had carried North Carolina on the
question of holding a convention. The state had
gone against a convention by a majority of 1,000.
The army bill providing for raising 50,000 men
passed the Southern Congress on the Bth inst. It
was said that the requisite number would soon be
ready to take the field.
In the Virginia State Convention on the Bth inst.
Mr. Wyaon offered an ordinance dissolving the
union of Virginia with the United States, which
was referred.

111 the Missouri State Convention, on the Bth inst.,
the resolution declaring that President Lincoln's
inaugural tends towards peace was tabled, in order
to await the action of the Committee on Foreign
Relations. The committee, it was said, would re-
port taking strong ground against seceesion and
coercion, and declaring emphatically for the Union.

HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL YARDS.
REPORT OF OF THE COMMISSIONERS.

This morning was issued the report, together with the
minutes of evidence, of the commissioners appointed to
inquire into the control and management of her Majesty'.
naval yards.

The system of control and management of the dockyards
is described as being inefficient. The inefficiency is attri-
buted by the commissioners to the constitution of the Board
of Admiralty ; the defective organisation of the subordinate
departments ; the want of clear and well-defined responsi-
bility ; and the absence both now and in times past, of any
means of effectuallychecking expend iture owing to the want of
accurate accounts. The commissioners offer the following
suggestions, with the view of rendering control and manage.
ment more efficient :

" 1. That a minister for the navy department should be
appointed, and should be held entirely responsible for the
control and management of the dockyards. 2. That the
dockyards should be looked upon as large manufacturing
establishments for the purpose of building and repairing
the ships of your Majesty's navy. 3. That the minister of
the navy should have the power of appointing a controller-
general acquainted with and qualified to manage such
establishments. 4. That the controller-general should have
the power (subject to the approval of the minister) of
selecting the superintendents of the different dockyard; as
these officers are the instruments for carrying out his in-
structions. 5. That the superintendents of the dockyards
should (subject to the approval of the minister) have the
selection of the officers under them, with the exception of
the officers in the accountant's and storekeeper's depart.
meets. 6. That the storekeeper-general of the navy should
be appointed by the minister, but should be under the
controller-general. 7. That the storekeeper-general of
the navy should (subject to the approval of the
minister) have the selection of the officers in
his department. 8. That the director of engineering
and architectural works should be appointed by the
minister, but should be under the controller-general.
9. That the director of works should (subject to the ap.
proval of the minister) have the selection of the officers in
his department. 10. That the accountant-general of the
navy should be appointed by and be responsible to the
minister for the navy department ; that he should have the
entire control of the whole accounts connected with the
dockyards ; and that he should furnish all accounts required
by the controller-general. 11. That the accountantgeceral
of the navy should have the selection of the officers in his
department, subject to the approval of the minister. 12.
That the officers and men in the dockyards should be placed
under the same restrictions as to voting at elections as the
officers at the Post-office, the Customs, and the Inland
Revenue. 13. That in each dockyard the captain of the
steam ordinary should be appointed to superintend the fit.
ting out of ships, that he should be held responsible for any
deviations from the established rules as to fittings, which
he may, in hie judgment, think necessary ; and should be
the medium of communication between the officers of the
navy and the superintendent of the dockyard. 14. That
all the departments of the Admiralty connected with the
dockyards should be brought under one roof. 15. That
the minister should be empowered to employ scientific and
practical men when he may find it advisable to consult
them upon inventions and improvements connected with
the department. 16. That the estimates laid before par.
liament should be accompanied by the annual programme
of shipbuilding works, as given in Appendix No. 3 to this
report, for the year 1860.61, with the estimated cost of each
ship under the heads of "materials" and " labour." 17. That
a surplus arising on one vote of the nary estimates should
not be permitted to be applied to make good a deficiency
upon another vote, even with the sanction of the Treasury.
18. That the power of the Treasury to increase the capon.
dilute on one item of a vote by applying the monies voted
on another item of the same vote should be limited. 19.
That vote No. 10 be divided into five votes, under the
heads of-1. Timber ; 2. Other stores ; 3. Vessels built
by contrast ; 4. Steam machinery ; 5. Cools ; and that
each vote should be set oat in detail, showing the establish-
ment in each case; the different descriptions of timber and
' other stores to be purchased ; the names of vessels to be
built by contract, their armament, horse power, and esti.
mated cost ; and the ships for which the steam machinery
is to be provided. 20. That a return to parliament of the
expenses incurred on your Majesty's ships should be made
in the form annexed, marked A, and be laid on the table of
the House of Commons, with the navy estimates."

Under the second head of the report--purchase of ma.
terials and stores—the commissioners suggest that the
contracts, especially for timber, should be more divid
and that the period ,or which standing contracts are en
into should be reduced. Timber, not of contract dime°.
*ions, or in excess of the quality required, should, they ays
be rejected.
"The system of accounts," observe the commissioners,
"is elaborate and minute ,• but, so far as we can judge, its
results are not to be relied upon for any practical purpose."
They proceed, in some twenty paragraphs, to illustrate this.
They then refer to their remarks under the head of
control given above, and add the following additional sug.
Bastions for their improvement:

"1. That the accountant•general should be instructed
to frame a new system of accounts .m the principle of double
entry. 2. That the accounts should be made up in the
dockyards each month, and transmitted to the accountant.
general by the 15th of the following month. 3. That an
annual account should be laid before parliament, giving •
detailed statement showing how the motley voted for the
dockyards has been expended on ships and services. 4.
That the forms of account should be carefully revised.
5. That the acoountant•general should consult with the
officers and decide upon au uniform system of classification
of heeds of service at the different yards, with the view of
removing ambiguity in beading the issue and workmanship
.notes, and for the purpose of ensbling the controllers
general to institute comparisons between the cost of similar
descriptions of work at the different yards. 6. That the
storekeepers should be cashiers; and should pay the wages
at the yenta. 7. That the practice of issuing stores without
vouchers should be immediately checked by the superin-
tendents of the dockyards."

Such being the very unsatisfactory condition of the value
accounts of the dockyards, the commissioners abstain from
expressing any opinion upon the cost of building, converting,
&c., the ships of the navy, b.sed upon data furnished by
these accounts. They express the opinion that the system
of task soil job work as at present carried on to the
dockyards is open to great abuse. They recommend also
" that with the submission for building of a ship, the con.
troller-general should also submit a carefully prepared
estimate of the entire coat of the ship, distinguishing ma.
terials, labour, fitting and rigging, and engines. That in all
eases where alteration or repair of a ship is proposed, a
similar estimate should be prepared. That these estimates
should be signed by the Controller-General, the Construc-
tor, the Engineer-m•Chiet of the Navy ; and the Master
Attendant, Master Shipwright, Chief Engiueer, and Store•
keeper of the dockyard, where the ship is to be built,
altered, or repaired.

The last subject treated of is the expenditure in cos.
averting and altering the ships of the navy. Under a proper
system of dockyard management, large retrenchments, they
believe, may be made without impairing the efficiency of
the yards. They detail the instances in which alterations
have been made in vessels from their orie'inid designs in the
course of construction, and remark that they see no reason
to doubt that these alterations were judiciously made. The
hut opinion which they give is that iron shipbuilding should
not be carried on in her Majesty's dockyards under the ex•
istiog system of accounts.
The report is signed by Mr. Robert Dalglish, M.P., the
Earl of Gifford, and Sir H. P. Willoughby, M.l.' All the
dockyards have been visited and tastefully inspected.

The Rev. H. P. Wrigbt, Chaplain to the Forces,
and formerly principal chaplain to the army in the Crimea,
has been appointed to the archdenconry of Britieb Comm.o
bin. This appointment does not remove Mr. Wright from
his long connexion with the army.
A lecture was deliverea on Wixlintaday night in
the Metropolitan 11111, Dublin, to the members of the Young
Men's Christian Association, upon the subject of the Jews,
by his ontee the Archbishop of Dublin. The Lord Lieu-
tenant also honoured the association by his attendance.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOel Erv. —At thu meeting
on Monday, the With inst., at Burlingtoe•bouse, the f
lowing papers willbe mad :-1. N. W. Auptralin—" Report
on the organisation of the Exploring Expedition from Perth
to the N.W. Coast of Australia," by Mr. F. T. Gregory,
F.R.G.S. 2. N. E. Australia—" Memoranda on the Ports of
N.& Australia," by Mr. A. C. Gregory, ; with
" Report on the Exploring Expedition to the Burdekin
River," by Mr. J. W. Smith, R.N., communicated by Sir
George Bowen, F.R.G.S., Governor of Queensland, through
the Duke of Newcastle. 3. S. Australia—" Expeditiorm
in," by the Governor, Sir R; liPlkinnell, and Major War.
honey.
CURIOCR POOR LAW QUESTION.—The Deptford
beard of guardians have, it in raid, just 1-.sde Sr application
to she Poor Law Beard under the following circumstances:
—A man named Joseph Ball, formerly ti pamper, had noes•
pectielly become mussed of property amounting to 1,5004
by the death of a brother in Australis, nod they required to
ascertain if the money which had been paid to him from the
union. amounting to 00t, could not bet ecovered from bin.
The answer received from the Poor Taw Ward wu to the
effect that, if the money hail been giveu him as a loan, and
stated to have been such at the time he received it, the
amount might be recovered ; but if the money was given
without any such consideration being stated at the time, it
could not legally be demanded now.
CRYSTAL PALACIL ONM SWUM DAT. -""
THURSDAY, MARCH 21.—Ailmietions ou payment, 1,0301
ditto by season tickets, 709 ; total, 1,799.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
Rats DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
.1: ral,tlV4 SAC3DERII.—• LOVE MATCH.
i.ts the parties, who were Loth minors at Aber•loped together, and were married in the island of
tea their fettle's to Fogland their parleill had
',wood at .‘l%.•rgaV OM% ; Previous to which the
. was orders,' by thy Court of chancery, of which
• is. a ward, to make a settlement upon her in
• to ..roue prope•rty to which she was entitled
the will .4 her grandfather. The parties lived
•r till Ind, and bid three children, of
.or survived. In that year, the respondent,
ars a coninierei4l traveller, formed an illi-
°seta,.o with the wife .4 another traveller, who had
r iu lie cohabited with this pecan till
sawn she died. In the meantime he had obtained
...e3 d dl Au wife's property which had not been in.
-. the ',Ailment, and he left her to support herself
• •1,,,41,tet by her own exertions•
appeared for the petitioner.
was allowed to steal over in order to produce
of the Jersey marriage ; the learned Judge re.
Hirt It would be useless to dissolve the wood U.S
7irst WY valid.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
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re J. E. Johaena. Earl., aad a full heath of Ilagiatrates.)