The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-10 00:00:00

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mein by Wise and Gardiner, and has only made one trip
to England.
Commander Victor G. Hickley has been appointed to
re Childers.
-Clinteierseßev. John Cawston, to the Centaur; Chas.
L. Bell, to the Conway flag ship, at Cork.
--)Acting Seem d Master Isaac Reeves, to the Ajax.
Ast!stant-Surgeons Henry M. Speer, recently serving
in the Hogue ; Allan Brown, M.D., recently serving in
the Bellerophon ; and Charles S. Lester, M.D., recently
serJing in the Aj.,x, have been promoted to be surgeons.
In order to rerder the communication between the
entrance of Mlfed Heven and the Royal Dockyard,
Peintiroke, as perfect as possible, a code of signals is
abeut to be established from St. Ann's Head, and by
means of ststions there, at Raki,), and Pembroke, intel-
ligence can at once he sent to the Admiralty. In order
thet this t legraphic system between the arsenal and the
vroious fortificatieths (lawn the Haven shall be kept in'
fuel efficiency, accommodation will be provided at St.
A nh's fir an officer awl bout's crew, who will communi-
cate pith a station at Weir Point, and thus on direct to
the deck s at d.
The Lorfs of the Admiralty have notified to the Rev.
J. C. Conolly, chap!ani of the dockyard, Woolwich,
that they have votee 3001. for the improvement of the
dockyard chapel, and to repair the damage done on the
west side when the Perseverance fell upon it. The ex..
pence of the latter will not be much, and there will con.
eequently be a considerable sum for the improvement'of
the chapel.
The teeneral Screw; Ctimpany's steam-ship Argo, Capt.-
Hyde. will leave Senthamptim for Portsmouth this morn-
ing to embark detachments cf the 4th and 13th regiments
of cavalry, consiatine of herses, 3
.efficers, and 497 men.
She will leave detect far the Crimea, calling at Gibraltar
and Malta.
rn the account given in The Sun of Thursday of the
sailing of the Baltic fleet it was noticed that the Duke of
Wellington, besides the flag of the Commander in-Chief
at the mizen, carried the broad pendant (blue) of the
captain of the fleet at her main, although there were
eight senior captains in sight. A letter in reference to
this statement says—
" The fact is that the blue flag in uestion was merely a
general signal to the fleet, to the effect that the mov manta
of the flag ship while this signal was flying were to te dis-
regarded. The same signal was repeatecinet day • the
Channel, and is of constant occurrence during the in
opera-
tions of a fleet. The captain of the fleet no cire'une
stances, to the. hest of_zay, belief,- hoist a commodore's
broad pendant, but the idea of the flagship wearing two
distinctive flags at the same time is quite preposterous."
The steam-ship Arabia, Capt. Stone, arrived in Kings-
town-bay on Saturday night ; she embarked 73 horses
and 37 men of the 17th Lancers; she had previously em-
barked at Liverpool 117 horses and 18 men of the 4th
Dragoons, and 47 men of the Bth Hussars; also Colonel
M`Mahon of the sth Dragoon Guards. The Arabia left
the Queen Victoria Wharf at 6 p.m. on Sunday, vocifer-
ously cheered by the spectators, who remained through
the rain to cheer these gallant fellows, who appeared in
high voice and in excellent spirits.
Upwards of 50,000 stocks of walnut-wood, in the
rough, for Mini 6 and other rifles, have been received in
the Tower from the continent. They are issued to the
fitter in this state to prepare and mount in readiness for
tie contractors. The barrels and locks of the regulation
firelocks being all of a size, the stocks require little or
no alteration. 5,000 stocks were sent down yesterday
to the fitters in Birmingham to prepare for the contrac-
tors at that place.
Notifieattons to the effect that proposals are required
f.r art additional ordnanc r, contract have been issued from
the office of the Coternabding Royal Engineer in Ire-
land. The present tenders are to be for the supply of
1.318 cast iron stoves for officers' and soldiers' rooms ;
11 hot pl-tea fir the officers' mess kitcheus, and 328 cast
iron trucks, with 1,800 yards lineal of iron rails for the
purpose of removing offal of every description from ibe
vic;nity of the camp.
It has been stated by mistake that Lieut. Richards,
55th Regiment, had arrived at Malta by the Great Bri-
tain. Lieuienaet Richards, we are informed, left the
depot in Ireland last May, aid has remained at the
head -guru ore of the regiment in the East ever since.
The Earl of Lucan passed through Team on Thursday
last, en his way from London to Castlebar. The noble
and gallant earl appeared the object of much public
curiosity.
The 3d Buffs expect to send out a Wong draught in a
few days for tl e Crimea.
The depot of the6oth Rot a! Rifles is about to bo trans=
ferred from Beggar's-bush to Richmond.barracks,Dublin,
preparatory to the formation of the depot into a third
battalion of the corps. When completed to the requisite
strength the 60th will, in the course of the summer, form
part of the force about to be encamped on the Curragh
of Kildare.
Captain H. C. Watson, of the 3d West India Regi-
ment, and Paymaster T. M. Creagb, have been ap-
pointed Paymasters of a provisional depot battalion in
the Lew Laud Transport Corps.

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to allure the most competent men of the middle
class into public life.
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There can be no more egregious fallacy than that
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that it is served gratuitously. No man gives his
services for n )thing, unless those services are so
utttrly worthless as to make it worth nobody's
while to pay for them. If a servant—either pit Wit,
or private—:s not paid directly, he will pay himself
indirectly. A man who pays himself indirectly and
e'andestinely is pretty sure to overpay himself.
There is no balancing accounts with him ; for it is
impossible to say how much he gets; and then—the
assumption being that he serves gratuitously—lie
g‘ve 4 himself airs whenever the quality of his work
is called in question. Unpaid services are the dearest
of all. The aristocracy profess to serve their coun-
try gratuitously as ministers of State: if all the jobs
they are enabled by their official positions to porno-
'trate in behalf of themselves, their relations, and
dependents were counted. up, ,it would be found
that they are exorbitantly overpaid. The landed
nobility and gentry profess to serve their country
gratuitously as justices of the peace ; and they pay
themselves by perverting the administration of
justice to subserve the pride and self-will of their
class, and to quarter theirhangers-on upon the pub-
lie purSe. The purchasers of commissions would
have us believe that as their professional pay rarely
equals in amount the interest they might obtain by
lending their money, they, too; serve their country
gratuitously. But looking back upon our national.,
history, and seeing- how many colonial governor—
ships, tai!oringcolOnelcies,diplomaticappointments,
&c., have been obtained by the high-born traffickers
in military rank, we are driven to the conclusion
that here also unpaid services are the dearest of all.
Let an end be put to this delusive system. Let all
who serve the public in civil or military capacities
be fairly paid ;, let such men only be employed as
can work efficiently ; and let no more men be em-
ployed than are necessary. Such a reform would
give us a better army • a better local administra-
tion of justice ; a better executive Government.
The beginningmust be made with the central admi-
nistrative Government, forso long-as it is conducted
on the sham gratuitous system, officials will uphold
that system in all other departments, if it were
only to keep themselves in countenance. To look
for this reform at the hands of those who have
been brought up iu the system, and who profit by
it, is folly. The middle classes—the educated and
politically powerful sect;on of the people—must
take the task in hand if it is ever to be acccom-
plished: They can do it if they will ; they have
carried Parliamentary and Municipal eform, the
Abolitiim of Slavery, and the Abolition of the Corn
Law, and they can also carry Administrative Re-
form. The wretched war mismanagement shows
that they have not a moment to lose in setting to
work. They must shake off their excessive love cf
lords ; and they can do so. Humorists and fo-
reigners laugh, not without reason, at the peerage-
worship of the English middle classes ; but when
Peers outrage the feelings, or encroach on the pro-
prietary rights of Englishmen, the insult of en-
croachment is resented with an energy of which
every other European people is incapable. Admi-
nistrative reform means, in the first place, free
access to the high offices of State for competent
men, whatever their birth or connections. It does
not mean exclusion of worthy Peers, but it means
admission of worthy commoners. It is for the
House of Commons to effect the reform ; and it is
for the electors, on the first opportunity, to return
a House of Commons that wit! set earnestly and
energetically. about it.