The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

arc expreggi.

I See se
fasollsimels ioris7sa Swain
owl st ilms Ones, Issysrie.suest, vy Meek as
• pabilosios.

TI &&&&&& ET.
Toes Fens*. VIOTINS'-1.811 ?lan AID /ZOOID 11.001
••••■ll TIM OLLINESIL—Onansess as T.

Tll3OllOOll.
Too Worm, LIVING
bog-0 TOO Mit -AY I= Ilium
Ws. 0. Zoo -Dan fon es mM

Onerow INIMILAIE1111". k6v.
yam met 00014.1; Mr Zoom and II ALL 110612"NSIL
41112.1.1.427auL1t. Mr
_o.lllryturd 310basa.. t'ArITITIZZLIZZONik

HIGH NAME. AT LONDON =IDOL
?_ Dar —lesesteL Maw" la. MIL
liairov—lisrulaL Y. -- Yawn. 4L

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 9.

Tax throated motion of Lord GODERICII on the
subject of Competitive Examination appears already
to have had some effect on the Government.
Within the last few days, r we are informed, orders
have been issued that all Mare vacancies in the
'Treasury are to be tilled up by means of Competi-
tive Examination. It most be clearly understood,
however, that the proposed system is not that of
absolutely open competition, but of competition be-
tween certain persons nominated for that purpose by
the Head of the Department. Henceforth, for every
vacancy in the Treasury. lard Pautssurrox will
nominate several persona, and the best of these, ac-
cording to the judgment of the Civil Sereice Com-
minioners, will be appointed to fill the vacant

place. Though the relit; ranee of the PlllOll/3 to
throw those appointments open is to be regretted, still
it most long since have become apparent to him that
the House of Commons have made up their minds
on the subject. Indeed, the bud speech of the
CLUICILLOR of the EXCHEQUICH plainly showed
that he considered the demand for an extension of the

competitive principle unanswerable, and that unless
the Government were prepared to violate their own
proseiges, such extension must at once be conceded.
The result of experience in this matter of examina-
tion must be sadly galling to the whole tribe of the
Barnacles and the Stilistalkinys. According to
these prophetic patriots every description of official
digester was to be apprehended as the necessary
malt of inaugurating this new scheme of pragmatical
pedantry. The practical-plodding every-day work
in the Government offices was to come to a stand-
se. These bureaux of genteel and compliant
indolence were to be filled by discontented and in-
tellectual sharpen, official emfasts terrible., whoa,
Instead of steadily doing their work, were to make
themselves as disagreeable to their chiefs as possi-
ble. The admirable moral discipline evinced in the
bet that official secrets were strictly kept was at
gems to be dissipated. In short, the practical basi-
nof Government was to become impossible. The
prepheb have been wrong in every one of their me-
diations. The het has falsified all their anticipations.

This, is not a single office, where the vacancies have
been etrpplied ti meopetitive examination, which is
not the batter foe the change. The boasted superiority
ever the offisials is foreign countries remains meetly
what it was. The well-edmated and Ghee ask
is jests Likely to keep a secret as the ignorant end
stupid clerk. Bat the work is infinitely better timet
awd dew with fewer hands. The valm at the
siteetions has been improved by diminishing the
amber of elerks and increasing their lahries, bet
net a farthing more is taken out of the public puree.
Net is this all. Members of Parliament nod Cabi-
net Minnters am to a grist extent relieved from the
isommity of tabbing and eerreption. If finalities are
ems her nominstione the patressege will netemly be
vktually isserema—einee may nominalism mill be
an cast of patrenage—brat the public intermit nil le
protested, sines the candidate must not may pone
the onendard of competeney, but show hhmelf mpe-
riot le all his rivals at the mime examination. Above
all, by means of the competitive mindp . the mom
of official life is opened to a more numareeselem
listen clerks in Government Offices will not sada.
es they have hitherto consisted, of the ism et
nephews, or connexions of Peen or powntiki peg&
cal men. The eons of gentlemen in the muds
ranks of life will have some chance of an appoint-
meet. On every account the competitive mime
is to be preferred, and we confidently hope to see it
Mill farther extended.
Them are no doubt many Government situation
to which it would be almost impossible to apply
mai a system. But there are others, and ape-
Melly these in the Foreign-office, to which it may
be applied with the greatest possible &Amstar.
The gentlemen who ill these places must not ally
poems the qualities which fit a man to move in
good society, but they ought to be men of very
superior acquirements. Indeed it is in the Let
degree improbable that any but highly educated par
ems would ever compete for them. There is probably
no
kind of situation which could he better tested by
competitive examination, and at the same time it is
whin that there are no places more sought after by
the Site of society. It is not surprising, therefore, that
the aristocracy should in this case adhere with the
most determined pertinacity to the present tale,
that if a nominee of the Foreign-office is not
grossly and glaringly incompetent, he is entitled, as
of muse, to the appointment.
Is order to ascertain the sort of persons who
are nominated by the Foreign-office, we have taken
the tremble to turn to the last Report of the Civil
Service Commission. We find that between thefts*
of May, 1886, and the 31st of December, left in
the Foreign-cam there was nog a ;timid* esimpieli-
fife eseeeissativoi—that is, there wee only cue plan
si.h.tpa to each vacancy. There were nine pom
Maas aorainated as unpaid attaches, and nine ewe
exeminsd. Of these nine no less than three mems
redeetedi that is, a third of all the nominerimbrthe
Foreign-edice were found utterly incompeked,
that had it not been for this examined,.
test, imperfect as it is, these three incemealmit
youths would now have been installed in callib ssi
might in the mares of time have repromalaffi We
,sentry at some raters Congress of Vise= es el
Ter* when the honour and the interests et
Lad might be at stake. Now we object to this. It
L eller that the Foreign-office is in the WA if
assainating incompetent persons. The danger these

Mai DAILY NIMBI LONDON MORNING
O mni itilms.
In Or sews sot wits d thr= orte-b Or uor...=
bot WWI% tol la tie tried ast
atablati *ID titr. telisks-411* PIPla •••
11101011111411 1111,11 IV SWABIA LIMI
ssolmhd, 0,01 Tr la re man Sr as mega
L.
Waslll OS LT V # 0 WOW.
1010♦ VA ft
asw.oxliruzs momannoirowv
M...ar=0.1 =Mit • V••••• 1.43 pan=
brr"..C,;dow •• Is OS IMO=: It la
le +C
VS wefts
senISI• PM. 110 00
=rwatt= tt1001.7 Vi& per it paid la

MIKE DAILY NEWS delivered to all parts of
rr welbara W saa Lint to MA
minim We @waft lon • t IMAM
ire LIM oaVer.t.tra sal WY Wr
wile W. LATZILLI" Raw