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TAB SUN LONDON TUESDAY ENT.ENINC3-, OCTOBER 9 185 5.
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t arising out ofthe facilities of distributionafforded by the lion, and the rights of knowledge-the committee trust 1 Naval and Military Intelligence. SPO.RTING INTELLIGENCE. BANK RETURNS.
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ADMINISTRATIVE BEFORE.good
Pliwha:tkaetts.
new postal arrangements, for the publications of the to see the discussion continued. i -m- .--eme-- ea
Y NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.
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SAMUEL MORLEY, Chairman. --I Portsmouth harbour and roadsteads are getting a bus
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SECOND ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE. Association. J. I. TRAVERS, Treasurer, `look again with the rapidly-accumulating returns of the An Acceunt, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
At this period of the year, and until the close of the The Bill, and the further measures of Administrative members of the Baltic fleet. The following movements Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and The best samples
Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank
86, King William-street, Oct. 1, 1855.
harvest, there is invariably a pause in every p•ub•lic Reform, essential to a condition of the highest efficiency
_a.
Association of every department of the public service, at home and. took place y esterday :-The Powerful, 84, Capt. Messie, 20Wale ' • • •the Weekending inferior quotations, but
J J Sto ford shifted their
foregoing and th® Calcutta, 84, Capt. .. p , s, in Circulation during Satur- parcels the turn cheaper. Spring
movement. It is, however, the duty of the The following is the bill referred to in the received forfeit from Lord Giasgow's bf by Orlando, .
13,12;400,
Byiatr7disi)); .
corn of all sorts
the agitation for Ad- abroad, in peace and war, mast be urged upon the at- berths at Spithead to berths near Ryde, for the better day, tne 29th day of September, 1855 :- firm at late prices.
to make provision for prosecuting address :- out of Brown Bess, Bst 41b. (5.1 a
sftuoril.,o furlongs
ministrative Reform with renewed vigour. tendon of the Legislature by petitions ; and that the pe- A BILL FOR REGULATING THE APPOINTMENT OF CLERKS IN accommodation of the steam fleet as its members drop in Sweepstakes of 100 sous each, hft ; for two-yr-old PRIVATE BANKS. Average Wheat, white, old, per s. a. ,
of to the anchorage. The Pembroke, 60, Capt. Seymour, Amount, a. s.
movement so far is encouraging. ti ions may be entitled to respect, as the expression THE CIVIL SERVICE. fillies, Bst 71b ; untried stallions or mares allowed 31b ; qr.6e e 6 I Oats, per qr 26 34
The progress of the steamed into harbour in the morning to replenish her if both, 51b. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards). Five Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co.
The principle of fitness has been admitted In the ap- informed opinion upon the subject, it is essential that Be it enacted, &e., as follows :-1. Her Majesty and
stock of coals at the depot hulk, and afterwards returned Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,230 red, old ..... 60 80 White
subs. 40 43
her from time to time a oint three comps-
such other successors may pp
existing Board of Examiners of nomi- the official papers of the Association an •to Spithead. The eEolus, 42, ammunition ship, wasAylsham Bank, Aylsham-G. and T. Copeman 5,012 new.... 39 78 Boiling 44 50
pointment of thetent persons to be a Board of Examiners of candidates Mr. J. M. Stanley's Mary Copp,by therlyine Dutch-Barley
throw alight upon thetaken to moorings off Hardway yesterday for the wire man, eat 41b -
noes to the office of junior clerk. publications sad documents as for appointment as clerks in the civil service, and may (Bartholomew) w oChevalier
and the best ter. The screw three-decker Marlborough will be • ' Beldocle Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade 31 39 Beans, Tick 40 45
The claims of merit have been conceded in the estate existing deficiencies of the public service, from time to time remove any such person. Fifty Pounds, for three-yr-olds, 7st 71b ; four, Bst 71b • •Grinding 2B ee,
t shall be printed for general undocked to-day, to give place to the Penelope pad- five, six, and aged, eat 121 b. A.F. (1 mile 2 furlongs' c
Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hodge, and o 25,185 Malt Harrow ticks 45 47.
lishment of open and competitive examination for cadet- means of their amendmen , 2. The Board of Examiners may from time to timefrigate, 18,Captain W. Wiseman, which is
dle Sir Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co. 9,972 68 72 Mazagan 39 42
73 yards). Chevalier 70 7e
ships in the Royal Artillery. circulation, and that the petitions must also be printed appoint a secretary and a registrar, and so many seals-
ordered to be refitted with all despatch. A Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Ditto, new... 39 41
Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orinoco, by Orlando, 5 yrs, Bst -.
I •
The common sense business practice of holding- the in very great numbers, , , . . _
rs as wherever the sheets are placed tent examiners, clerks, messengers, and servants, as may
art of caulkers were sent off to her in the 121 b
st be distributed to all who may be approved by the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury, P Y (Bartholomew) 1 the Quantities f C &c received
heads of offices responsible for their management has for signature, copies mu and may from time to time remove any such secretary, harbour yesterday from the dockyard to caulk her Mr. Harrison's King of Trumps, aged, Bst 121 b aedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard and Sons 32,554 in the port of London, from the ° "11'
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following ports, from
upper works. During the time she is refitting her crew Bewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, the let to the 6th both
been acknowledged in the reorganisation of the War and ask for them. registrar, assistant examiner, clerk, messenger, or ser-(Flatman) 2 Oct.,.inclusive.
Meetings, too, must be held for the adoption of the eang will be aland ranted leave. The Hebrides
par wages g Mr. Ailment's Peu d'Espoir, 3 yrs, 7st 71b...(Spreoty) 3 .and Co 9,208
Ordnance Departments. freight-ship sailed yesterday with full cargo of victual- Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
el • -
in every Parliamentary borough in the king- 3. The Board of Examiners shall from time to time ~ The following also ran : - Cranbourue, Ariosto,
The evil of appointments for the support of party, in- petitions . ling stores from the Royal Clarence-yard for the Crimea. Bank, Bicester-H. M. and G. Tubb 13,184 g, a'' ae °' ti t
M and every district of the metropolis. No move- frame a scheme of examination and regulations for the Lizzie, and cby Paragons.. FS he d 0.2
stead of the good service of the public, is yielded, so far do , The Dee naval transport left yesterday on her return to B tte e ing-9 to 4 'west Orinoco, sto 2 ag,st King of se
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham --Attwoods, ee "' 0 et a, ce
t can be carried to a successful issue without meet- purpose of ascertaining the natural ability and rudimen-
Woolwich, taking round eupernumerarie. The transport pooner, and Co 22,060
as mechanics are concerned, in the recent Admiralty in- men tary acquirements to be required as a qualification for Trump., sto 1 agst Cranbourne. Won by two lengths • _ _ __a
in.'s • they are the legitimate means of instruction, the William Jackson has been paid off, and gone to South. bad third.'' ' Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir- Colchester
structions to the superintendents of dockyards, to em- e , admission
to compete for employment in the civil ser-
uences, only means of a safe expression of earnest opinion on the mpton to be docked. The steam troop-ship Simoom .
, Sweepstakes of 50 am each, 30 ft ; for three-yaold Bi ~e e • •
mineham-J L Moilliet and Sons 10,249 Harwich • 160 ! _
ploy and promote, without regard to political lull vice. They shall once at least in every year cause a de- a • •s a had
18, Captain u Ivan, her steam up again yesterdayanotto,d Bank, Blandford-Oak and Co. 6,538 Leigh - ' - - - 28°
fitnese. part of the people ; and meetings are unavoidably at- scription of the existing scheme of such examination to fillies, Bat 71b each ;those by stallions or out of mares , --14 23 -
for fitness only, an to spare no effort to ensure to test her boilers, and work her newly-adapts I ma- that - never produced a winner allowed 31b ;if both, _...
Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co Malden
71,868 1469 12 ; - - - 27 _
in the right tended wale a large outlay. It will not do to wait for be publiehed in the London Gazette.
These, however, are but uncertain stepschinery, by Mr. Murray, chief engineer of Portsmouth 51b. D. (7 furlongs 201 vans). 8 subs. Boston Bank, Boston-H. and T. Gee and Co. 14,426
nominees will local effort or local contributions ; they will follow, but time to time appoint convenient 4. They shall from . dockyard. The vessel has been greatly improved, and Bridgwater Bank, BridgwaterCOLCHESTER- OCT. 6.
direction. The private examination of places in England, Scotland, and Ireland for making Duke of Bedford's Habeas, by Birdeatcher, Bst 41b 0 -J. and J. L.
s anythieg beyond a the expenditure must be first incurred ; there are adver- her increased, it is estimated (she has not yet been Seeley
scarcely be received by the public a . such examinations. Toe shall, on the Ist of January . speed (S. Rogers) vir. o. 6,913 We have had less wheat on offer to-day, which was sold
The public examination tisements, placards, handbills, places of meeting to be tried out of harbour), two and a half or three knots. mATCH -200, h ft. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards). Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles,'
Miles and Co 3l 727
on quite as good terms as last week. Barley •
was again the
prohibition of utter ignorance. and Ist of July in every year, give notice in the Lon. The Simoom is wanted to embark upwards of 1,000 Broseley dB al • ' '
yan gnorth and Bridgnorth and turn dearer, and beans and peas but very few at market,
matters of every-day im- paid for ; besides travelling expenses, agents, too, must don Gazette of the times and places at which such exa- Duke of Bedford's Tyre, by 'recliner, Bat 41b (S. Rogers) 1 and prices in favour of the seller.
for artillery cadetships omits troops immediately. Her Majesty's despatch yacht Lord Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boy-
ded with matters of no relation- be sent to organise committees in the seveeal towns •; minations will be made during 'the ensuing half-year. Glasgow's a by the Flying Dutchman, out of
portance, and is overload Elfin, Master-Commanding Allred Bellistoo, was taken cott, and Co. Prices t -
• They shall direct one or more of the assistant examiners Barba, Set 81b (Flatman) 2
and of no practical value. It is local committees are essential for correspondence, distn-into s; earn the 'e m basin yesterday to refit her ,Bucking ham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par- 15,695 red, 68s to 76s ; barley, 368 to 40s ;cats, 305 to 34s •be
ship to the profession, time and placeto make such examine-
to attend at such
peas,a
tsta.nding these changes, the ablest bution of publications, attention to pettons, memorials lion. &c. The Lady M`letaghten transport left Spithead yes-roll, gaud, Co.
plain that, notwi runnin '-'
dby 101 th.
g, au won very easily eng , . white, 48s to 568 ; grey, 38s to 425. s -
• hout eatrons, can never reach the Board of to representativea enrolment of members, collection of 5. Every male subject of her Majesty, who has rot day for the Thames. The York Town packet sailed yes- Fifty fSat 71b • d fillies,
yr Pounds, or two•yr- olds; colts,, an and Suffolk Bank Sudbury Ban
Bury , k, and
• men, wit terday for New York.Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-
th• t however well devised may be the subscriptions, and to make arrangements for meetings been dismissed from any branch of the public service, Bst Sib. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards).
Examiners ; a f The Vedra has sailed from Woolwich Arsenal for the eerOakes, Bevan, and Co.
" •of labour and arrangement of duties in the and elections. may present himself at any such time and place for exa-eve .T. Ta lor's b f out of Ostrogoth's dam, COAL MARKET.-Oils 8.
division d- Crimea with a cargo consisting of huts, y by Slane, - a 1 Banbury Bank, Banbury - Gillet, Tawney,
lea mination, and shall be then and there examined accor , Bst Sib (Ashma )
'War and Ordnance Departments, their performances It is idle to suppose that the systematic corrupt watercarts, bales of winter clothing, and casks of har- • , and Co.
ing to the regulation of the board. If any person so Lord Wilton sch f by Birdcatcher, out of Sacrifice,
can be no better than the practical ability and ex- of Parliament can be effectively prevented, or the man- examined shows thereby that, he has the qualifications ness. The Baalbec, likewise for the Crimea, with a
.. Bst 51b (Flattnan) 2 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 22,176 8. d. Wallsend, ke.
d • ep 11 of huts h •also'
, , _ cargo compose princi ay, eying a small Bath City Bank, Bath -G. eloger and Son ...,._ 2,184 Bate's West Hartley 18 e
Duke of Bedford's A_lastor, Bst 71b ...... ..(S. Rogers) 3 • • e. se.
'exce of those employed ; whilst, unless the heads agement of the official business of the country be placed required to admit him to compete for employment in tee
per quantity ot shot and shell, has also sailed. There areßuzzardßank, Leighton
Bedfordshire Leighton middle W. Hartley l9 3 Riddell
determine to civil service 'he ma re uire and the aesistant examiners
Have full powers of appointment and dismissal, their re- on a secure basis, unless the constituencies ~.y q . , The following also Unexpected, T
g ran :-The 'The Fly- Bastine's Hartley l9 •.-: 21 3
only four transports lying at the arsenal moorings, and Buzzard-Bassett, Grant, and Co 36,381 ineyweee . Wharncliffe 2l 0
[aeons' 'lenity must be either unreal or unreasonable. Nor begin the reform by choosing • their own candidates- shall deliver to him, a ern cats of.the same. these are veiling vessels. The activity so unremit- ing Duchess, Redan, Capercailzie, Armiger, Mark Foulis,
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and ......20 6 Belmont
'choosing them not for mere promise
is it to be supposed that the shipwrights and other of what they intend th
6. The board shall cause a register to be kept of e
tingly carried on in every department of the Royal Ar-
ThO Duffer, Lerna. . Hoevard's West Hartley ea - 2 l 2l 9
d Lloyds
names, descriptions, and addresses of all persons so ad- Betting-3 to 1 agst Relan, sto 1 ag,st Unexpecte , 19 0 South Hatton 22 3
handicraftsmen, and skilled and unskilled labourers, in to do, but for what they are told they have done; choos-
mitted to compete. panel is now considerably relaxed. Another batch of
6to 1 each agst Ariniger and filly by Slane. Very Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. Longridge's Wst Hartley 19
3 etewart'a .
150 men, besides the 200 already reported, have re- A. and W. M. Harris and Co
the dockyard towns, will feel safe that the full exercise ins the best, and ablest, and worthiest men ; choosing 7. The board of examiners shall, from time to time, by little was done on the race. Won cleverly by three-
ceived notice of discharge, arid a small portion only are • Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 61,453 Wallsend, &c. Cassea ' ''2l 9
s- in uir of the heads of offices and de artmente aseer-
of their franchise shall never again stand in the way of them not for mere family connection, nor for party a q y . p ,_,
employed throughout the night. On Sunday the ma- quarters of a length ; the second beating the third half a, eleugh Hell '
Brighton Union Bank, B• ht Hll W
on rig on- a , West, fledley
length. Armiger was fourth, Redan fifth, and Flying...2l 3 Evenwood 18 '9
their employment and advancement, so long as there is sociation, nor for titles nor wealth ; but for what of in- tain the special qualifications required for the service of
chinery was still. Profiting by this state of inactivity and Borrer
eachoffice department of
d
no better security for the measure that gives able work- dividual soundness of opinion, firmness of purpose, anthree of the heads of departments have taken the op- Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington--
the next division, Capercailzie being last. , Ships at market... 23 I Sold
division thereof. They shall from time to time frame a • 23'
Harding, Smith, and Co 12,399
manship precedence of votes at an election, than an Al- unswerving honesty they have shown to be in them. scheme of a series of competitive examinations for the portunay of putting into action the advice of Lord
A Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each and only 5 ft
Palmerston on his recent visit to the Royal Ar- ' Y Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- •
miralty order, which, under another Ministry, or dif- We say to the constituencies, Find such men in your
purpose of ascertaining the qualifications of candidates if de fared, &c., to go to the owner of the second
senal. His lordship observed that we were unequalledJ. Worlledge
civil service, • And the first class of
ferent temper of the public, may at any time be re• own locality if you can ;if you have not got them for clerkships in the . . by the whole World in every article produced by the • horse •; for threeyr-o s upwar s. .. . ur-
-11 and d TY'C (5 f Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock & Co. 12,114 •
scinded, or suffered to lapse into disuse. such series shall be framed with a view to ascertain the
amongst you, or cannot persuade them to take upon . . Royal Ordnance Department with tbe single exception longs 140 yards). Six subs, two of whom pay 5 sovs Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam- ae
general qualifications of candidates, and the other classes The highest weight accepting b 'rig 7st
each.
.el .
But, however incomplete those changes may be, or themselves the labours, the anxieties, the expenses of gun-metal, and it must be acknowledged that ourl3lb, bridge-Messrs. Fosters 47,028 ~ (N ignifles that the mans are sent from the General Post-orliee
of such series shall be framed with a view to ascertain it was raised to 83t 71b, and the others in proportion. y the night-and Mb y the morning-despatch.)
however mach-being at best but based upon Orders in, of Parliament, then, in good time and in good earnest, the special qualifications required in clerks in particular nei hbours on the continent surpassed us in tbat mate-
rialg, and that this should be remedied. Col. Eardley Duke of Bedford's Para, 3 yrs, Bst 71b ...(S. Rogers) 1 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and
Co 31,198
Council-they may wear the aspect of experiment, look abroad for men of mark and merit-men who will departtnent3 or divisions of the civil service. And in • Lord Glasgow's cby Pantaloon, out of Physalis, 4 Day when itt i. 1e ~ From what wit.
Wilmott, Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories, Carmarthe k C h Dd M
Carmarthen Ban , armart en- avi orris COVNTRIES in General Post- Port , due all'
they are of importance as a surrender of the system as it add to the ableness and dignity of Parliament-men every class of such series a number .of marks shall be7st 121 b
Capt. Boxer, Superintendent of the Royal Laboratory, yrs, . , (Flatman) 2 and Sons
some fixed for the maximum of excellence in respect of eachlet mus 3yrs, 7st 61b Wells 3
Mr. Adkins s aor ,
,• ( \ Dispatched. EngTand
was ; and it is idle to suppose they would have been who, having had some experience, will have and Mr. Anderson, of arachinery have started i Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Coate and Son. 2,667 ---se------ , .-e-----e.
subject of examination and a number of marks c n -
o sti ' lnspector 7 • • Betting-7 to 4on Para, sto 2 agst litormus. Won-..
made at all had there been no organised move- power to bring there, some right to the high trust youfor an inspection of some of the continental foundries, Colchester Bank, 0
1 1 ~, emerieratwerit.pace)e ever), Friday .. - Liverpool .. , testae M
tuting the minimum of qualification. They shall on the ' easily by a length ; same distance between the second ser _o.caester-Round & Green 16,0ee Americs, (by United Ste. . Ort
ment for Administrative Reform. The able report confer upon them, and of whom you may be justly proud let of January in every year, and so often as the scheme B • F
and have proceeded for that purpose to elgium, ranee, Colchester and Essex Bank, and '
and third. • Witham and paclad) ...... ....N ••••, • -• • - Liverpool .• Oct. 6
and Prussia. Five months' leave of absence has been Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, kmerica (by U. States
of the commission on the organisation of the perma- to have it said they are your representatives. Let there of competitive examination is altered, cause to be pub- granted (under medical certificate) to Brevet-Major Sweepstakes of 10 SOVi each ; tveo-yr-olds, 6st 7lb ; Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co 32,932 packet) ..........N 4e • • •-• ••• • • Southampton
ither lished in the London Gazette a copy of such scheme.
nent Civil Service, and its at ten volume of papers; be an end of having candidates thrust upon you e in • Simon Fraser, of the Royal Marine ' Corps stationed at three Bst 41b • four, Bst 121 b ; five and upwards, get Cornish Bank
, Truro-Tweedy and Co kustralia (via South-
-46,616 arcpton) ...... •• .. 51, . .... •.. • • • • Southampton Aug. 14
abounding in valuable suggestions for the reconstitute by great neighbours or the great clubs,
for mere personal 8. They shall on the Ist of January every year give '• ' f 200 if Id d '
Woolwich barracks, for the benefit of his health. Capt. 21b ; the winner to be sold or sova. r eman e. , Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock 7,347 aitto.(via Marseilles) NI
notice in the London Gazette of the places and times ap- &c. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards). Six subs. ,. Dover a,.
of the service, were suffered to remain a dead letter. or party ends. C. P. •Coode, Royal Merines, is instructed to leave an City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co eitto ivia Cate of God
19,613 ' s
an .. pointed for such examinations. They shall conduct intellieent non•commissioned officer on the recruiting Mr. J. Anson's The Assayer, 4 yrs, Bst 121b(Aldcroft) 1 Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Hope) ............ N 1
Even at the commencement of the session, and during To support constituencies in the selection of c el- the examination of all persons who duly present them-
, service at Kidderminster, detaching the remainder of Mr. Adkins's Curious, 2 yrs, est 71b ......(Fordhana 2 Co ... Uncertain
kfrica (West Coast) ..Nll3d of the month .. Plymouth .. Oct. 6
d* 1 sof the Sebastopol Committee, those veil' dates those chosen by themselves, and to prevent the selves for competitive exemination in some place to whim
the disc lo his party to Woolwich head-quarters, and forthwith re- Mr. Armstrong's Caledonia,, 2 yrs, 6et 71b (Quinton) 3 Cardiff Bank, Cradiff-Towgood and Co 63,536 Xlexandria..........N i;, 9, 24, &30 of 11, • ,Dover ......
6,970 Alexandria.... -_ _ I!.th & 20th of moi,.southampton,
of the 'concerned in the war were der- system of patronage being upheld by bribery at elections, the public may freely resort. They may, for the purpose
branches - Bahamas ...........M,l7th of the montl 1
• 'Southampton
dared perfect ; and it was not until this association bee are two of the most important
duties of the association ;of examination in any special class, be assisted by any officer above referred to is to be attached to the Wor- Icarus. mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Belgium ........ - _NI Wily _ .......... Dover .... - (Dane
carne organised that examiners were appointed, and not and it is of the utmost moment p p
nt that re arations should Person or persons whom they may think proper. ester party. A recruiting par •ty of the Portsmouth di- Betting-5 to 2 agst The Assayer, 3to 1 agst Cale- Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, eaten ...• •• ........ et 9th of the month.. southam pt en Pzt.-15
Suenos Ayres ......., m 9th of the month.,
9. Every person who has obtained a certificate of ad- caster • • • ' •donia, 9to 2 agst Icarus. Won easily by six lengths 8 855 CaPe of. Good Hope .. N Southatil fon pet. 1.5
before the experience of elections, debates in Parliament, be made to frustrate the evil influences of and `N • h
vision of Royal Marines, stationed at otting am, are ; Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co Various pore uncertain
bribery miscibility to compete may present himself at any such ordered to re' •h d t t Woolwich,with th bad third. The winner was claimed.
Join ea -quer ers a e . , Cape of Good Hope ..N
Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans & Co. 9,659 apedC verds ......a 9tb of the month Southiun '
the earnest spirit of provincial meetings, the meetings ie corruption, and, where needful, to bear the expense of place and time for examination ; and he may require to exception of anon-commissioned officer, who is to remain Match, Bst 71b each ; 200, h ft. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 32213 eeeion (see India) Pion Oct. is
Drury-lane Theatre, and the zealous and almost unani- pet in defence of honestly-won elections. be examined as to his qualifications in any particular 140 yards).
th ,re and to be attached to the Derby party. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Ceylon .............. N
moos demand of the public press for the " rigbt men in These objects cannot be effected without a large ex- class or e ,
lasses exclusively • and if in such examination Lieut. Proby, of the Ist Royals, who died on his pas- Mr. Powney's
Sirius, ,
Granville by Touchstone (A. Day) 1 Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co .. 26,538 ehsnnel Isles ~.. ..r. Mon „Wel ,Sartf•Southampton Iru.Th•F at.
• . •h t the b-• t. have
the right places," had shown that the tide of popular penditure. Art her to su germ ions been con- . .
he obtain a number of marks equal to that fixed as th® sage home from the Crimea, was sou of the late Capt. Mr. J. P. Cook's by Meteor (Whitehouse) 2 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke chine... . 12,1 Ar 17th (;frno •
Chinn .. • I ntl Southamptot,
'Once a month....
first, minimum of qualification, the Board of Examiners shall Oct. 4
opinion was unnaistakeably set in for Administrative, fined to the metropolis. London has subscribed Proby R.N. It appears that he was working in the Betting-4 to lon Granville. Granville made all the and Co 8,363 eonstenenopie ......e 18,23,6e28 of n, Pover ...
enter his name, description, and address on the register, ..
trenches till the 20th Jul when he had an attack i f running, and won easily by two lengths.
3", Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincha.m, and Co 10,290 Ce9o,Mtstitinople ........ :ltil St 200 of men..S)lithampion
Reform that the changes were made in tee War and because, having originated the movement, it wa3 felt that of candidates or appointment as clerks in the civil ser- e. of Europe Li & Ntiwiee daily I.
fever. From this he recovered sufficiently to eo to Scu. Match : 200, h ft. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards). Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster Egypt (see India) I ••• • • - Dover ...... Twlet daily'
Ordnance Departments, the Artillery thrown open, or the' metropolis must set the example of subscription ; vice, with the number of marks obtained by him on exa. taxi, where unfortunately he had an attack of diarrhcee, Lord Clifden's Melissa received forfeit from Lord Glee- --Cooke and Co 71,199 France ........ M & NTwicc daily ... .. Dover .... : Twtraisilv
the mechanics of the dockyard districts, even nominally, but steps will now be taken for the formation of Inc it mination, and the class or classes in which they were so which led to his ben sent home. On arriving at Malta, gow's fby Orlando, out of Brown Bess. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton (1 •thraltar ...... -- M 4,7, 17, 20, 27 .elms isouthampto,
enfrenchised from the bond of patronage and party. committees, the enrolment of members, and collection obtained ; and shall deliver to hint a certificate of the however, he died at the naval hospital. The weather was on the whole very favourable ; the on-Tees Bank, Darlington--Backhouse &Co 84, e qreece (see India) Oct. 6
sane under their hands. 91, •:Sireytown ----Atli-id tt 17th of men. Southampton
But it will not do to be misled by these concessione, of subscriptions throughout the country ; and the cog-___-- ground in capital condition, and the attendance appeared Devonport Bank, Devonport- Hodge and Co 7,302 llarr...hurgil: ...........N,Tnesday q•-• VA
- • ~.laYiLondon .....
10. The board shall keep a register of all persons who
nor to mistake the ready assent of parties on all sides of mittee are satisfied that sufficient means will be fur- APPOINTMENTS. to be of an strength. The promise of sport was Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, ins anna ..........51 2nd of the monthlSouth
average ampton 'Nov 2
have passed the competitive examination, clistineuishine „a ~, , „„, Holland .. • ..... - ..M.Daily.. . ...... , „
Dorchester-R and LI Williams
e e, The following appointments. made at the Admiralty reduced by Brown Bess paying forfeit in her two • . 47,01 a ilonduras ..........Mll7th of (Dover .. „Hoe.
the house to the theory of Administrative Reform ler a niched them for a vigorous effort to teach the consti- the classes in which they have passed, and the number of . the month. Southa•rnp•ton 16t Yam
yesterday, appeared in our third edition :- matches ;by Mary Cepp walking over for the 100 sows East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos- india (viaSouthampt.)M,4:ll& 20th of mon.lPlymouth ..'Oct.h 4 °ll
hearty determination to have Administrative Reform tuencies the value of administrative reform, and to be marks obtained in each class respectively. The board Commander G. 0. Willis to the Duke of Wellington. Sweepstakes, T.Y.C. ; and by Habana having the like ter, and Co 90,604 India (via. Marseilles)M Oth& 25th of month Dover . I
carried into practice. It is one thing to yield that the ready for the next election. shall keep a register of the address of every such person Commander Lieut. J. R. Palmer to the Penelope. easy work for the 50 sovs Sweepstakes, D.M. East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co 52,032 lonian isles (see India)l7, 17, &27 of mon Dv• ••
••
Ireland ........M & N,Twice daily .. _ e. tioolver '••
'' '•
so long as such person remains on the list of candidates,
favoured nominees to places shall be shown to possess But, however desirable it may be to obtain a large Paymaster J. E. Autey to the Leander. Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Li5h0n............ -114,7, 9, 17, &27 of n•. soiful,iaenaad_ic.);,,Twlffedall!
and until he has acceptedofprobationary
some or other
some fitness for their duties ;it is quite a different amount of subscriptions, it i 3 still more important that Paymaster John Hayward to the Leander. BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 45,854 Madeira .. __ „, ....M 19th of the month!southam'ito,e la
appointment in the civil service ; and whenever such - • •eadeira ............ Nl23d of month •• .. Liverpool ... Oct.
• -
Paymaster B. W. White to the Recruit. CIESAREWITCH STAKES. Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 25,095
matter to surrender nomination altogether, and to seta- the association shall have the influence of numbers, and person gives notice to the board of any change in his p ‘,falta (see India) 1
Pa master T. E. Palmer to the Wrangler. 7to 1 agst Robgill (taken and offered) Fakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk Malt:: ............ ~ N 5, 18, &28 of mon. Dover ....• „
blish fitness without patronage as the sole title o that it shall comprise all classes. Administrative Re- address they shall cause such change to be made in the Oct. 4
Paymaster J. A. Welch to the Ardent. Bto 1 apt Kale Tom (taken and offered) beck, and Co
offices. How strenuously this will be resisted by those form is neither a party nor a class movement ;it wages register accordingly. Paymaster T. W. Wells to the Porcupine. 9to 1 agst Ma'Sykes (taken) Farringclon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far- kianritius .. • • .... - Nil4th of tho monll.
11. After the first competitive examination under this Mexico ............lei
who have hold of the influence that enables them to Hee no war against any order •; it attacks no existing right ; Paymaster A. Barren to the Cressy. 10 to 1 agst Sultan (taken freely) ringderi-Barnes, Medley, and Co 7,173 Naples , ............N sthlsth2hthormon.l
act, whenever it became necessary to appoint a clerk in Dover .....
upon Government-those to whom Parliament is tee it seeks but the end of an exclusiveness that sets up Paymaster C. W. Stnrgess to the Amphion. 15 to 1 agst Brotherto Grey Tommy (offered) Farnham Bank, Farnham-- Messrs Knight ..„ 11,575 New liranada •
.. -.. ,21. &17th of mouth ,southampton
any office or department maintained by funds provided
stepping stone for younger sons-the weer by which the party and incapacity, and shuts out merit. Men are to by Parliament (including tbe civil departments of the 20 to 1 agst Monarque (offered) Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. 5,835 New Zea1and.......... 13- private ship .. Various port Uncertain
door is opened to independence, at the public coat, fr. be found fit for the public service in every class ; there army and navy), unless some person previously employed DESPATCH FROM GEN. SIMPSON. 20 to 1 agst Black Swan (offsred)
20 to 1 agst Neville (offered) Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and
Keen
Peninsula ..........M lthi7th27thofmon. Southampton
the least competent of their relatives and friends, aii,, are ,
• ' *hose amongst the humblest who, if the barriers in the public service be appointed as such clerk, the -.sa Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Hayden.. 12 314 Pert
4,816 Peru ..............M 'Ad gi. 27th of mon. Southampton
head of such office or department shall notify the same (From a Supplement to Friday's Gazette.) Natal .... ......N fly private ship...
20 to 1 apt Crown Pigeon (taken and offered) , ,.. _ ,
_various ports Uneertare
by werich boroughs are kept in hand-able candidate against them be removed, will work their own way to in 20 to 1 agst Veteran (taken and offered) Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and C 0... 26,182 siey .. a a •.......N,eini i,tll2,•thofmon, c0ver......
to the Board of Examiners, and shall state whether the WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT. 8. Hastings Old Bank, Hastings Smith, Milder, Tuscany- •
.. , . .. .. ... ..NlNthifith2sthofmon. Dover .....
33 to 1 agst Lady Talton
'silenced, andparties dependence and distinction through public usefulness.
put down-able representatives
The association desires, their help, their energy, their
kept together without measures, without principles, gy, general or special, and if they be special, of what class. Lord Panmure has this day received despatch,and
a 4O to 1 agst Bolton and Co.
its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad- 40 to 1 agst Eulogist Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Australia) ......- ...
and in , defiance of the public good-may be judg-, d influence, their numbers ; and it has therefore deter- And the Board of Examiners shall thereupon, by letterWest Indies .... .. ~M SS* 17th o month ISo th
of by the opposition with which even the half-way pro- mined that, in future, every subscriber, from a shilling . dressed to his lordship by General Simpson :- -
• directed to the address from time to time given by - emPten ies is mod
Sebastopol, September 25. 1000 to 15 agst Paletot Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford--S. Adams
each candidate, or otherwise, offer such appointment When any of these d
and Co.
posal, that proof of fitness should precede nomitiation, upwards, shall be enrolled and receive a card of mem- an ingreat
My Lord,-I have the honour to transmit the report Sult force, 15,010 ipatched on the fll Bates fall on a Sunday, the malls will be do
to that peron on the register of candidates who Las 0 owing day. with the exception of the In
~1s
should be determined in open competitive examinee bership. of the principal medical officer for this week, ending The following six were backe gd a ainst the field :- Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, ,louthampton), and the Malta, both Ili (vil
obtained the greatest number of marks in the does Hull Smith, Brothers, and Co.
thi
8:-.. -... e,iel rlpfpniisd in the last session. Administrative Reform is no mere question of theory; from which the appointment is required to be made ; before.
' 18th September, which, by mistake, I omitted to send Robgill, Mr. Sykes, King Tom, ,
Sultan, Brother ti Grey ,
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
,,,o+a a _ ____ t.... ees -,..ed,,1 he ennh ner-ri within Tommy, and Monarque.
don-Rust and Veaseys
~, n - . . ,_-:11 ,•,..,1 colfli ee.tieftion that the DERBY. Harwicheßank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.
___

arising out of the facilities of distribution afforded by the
new postal arrangements, for the publications of the
Association.
The Bill, and the further measures of Administrative
Reform, essential to a condition of the highest efficiency
of every department of the public service, at home and
abroad, in peace and war, must be urged upon the at-
tention of the Legislature by petitions ; and that the pe-
titions may be entitled to respect, as the expression of
informed opinion upon the subject, it is essential that
the official papers of the Association and such other
publications and documents as throw a light upon the
existing deficiencies of the public service, and the best
means of their amendment, shall be printed for general
circulation, and that the petitions must also be printed
in very great numbers, as, wherever the sheets are placed
for signature, copies must be distributed to all who may
ask for them.
Meetings, too, must be held for the adoption of the
petitions in every Parliamentary borough in the king-
dom, and every district of the metropolis. No move-
ment can be carried to a successful issue without meet-
ings ; they are the legitimate means of instruction, the
only means of a safe expression of earnest opinion on the
part of the people ; and meetings are unavoidably at-
tended wide a large outlay. It will not do to wait for
local effort or local contributions ; they will follow, but
the expenditure must be first incurred ; there are adver-
tisements, placards, handbills, places of meeting to be
paid for ; besides travelling expenses, agents, too, must
be sent to organise committees in the several towns ;
local committees are essential for correspondence, distri-
bution of publications, attention to petitions, memorials
to representatives, enrolment of members, collection of
subscriptions, and to make arrangements for meetings
and elections.
It is idle to suppose that the systematic corruption
of Parliament can be effectively prevented, or the man-
agement of the official business of the country be placed
on a secure basis, unless the constituencies determine to
begin the reform by choosing their own candidates—
choosing them not for mere promise of what they intend
to do, but for what they are told they have done; choos-
ing the best, and ablest, and worthiest men ; choosing
' them not for mere family connection, nor for party as-
sociation, nor for titles nor wealth ; but for what of in-
dividual soundness of opinion, firmness of purpose, and
unswerving honesty they have shown to be in them.
We say to the constituencies, Find such men in your
own locality if you can ; if you have not got them
amongst you, or cannot persuade them to take upon
themselves the labours, the anxieties, the expenses
of Parliament, then, in good time and in good earnest,
look abroad for men of mark and merit—men who will
add to the ableness and dignity of Parliament—men
who, having had some experience, will have some
power to bring there, some right to the high trust you
confer upon them, and of whom you may be justly proud
to have it said they are your representatives. Let there
be an end of having candidates thrust upon you either
by great neighbours er the great clubs, for mere personal
or party ends.
To support constituencies in the selection of candi-
dates those chosen by themselves, and to prevent the
. system of patronage being upheld by bribery at elections,
are two of the most important duties of the association ;
and it is of the utmost moment that preparations should
be made to frustrate the evil influences of bribery and
corruption, and, where needful, to bear the expense of
• petitions in defence of honestly-won elections.
L These objects cannot be effected without a large ex-
• penditure. Hitherto the subscriptions have been con-
fined to the metropolis. London has subscribed first,
1 because, having originated the movement, it was felt that
the' metropolis must set the example of subscription ;
but steps will now be taken for the formation of Inc il
committees, the enrolment of members, and collection
of subscriptions throughout the country ; and the corn-
' mittee are satisfied that sufficient means will be fur-
nished them for a vigorous effort to teach the consti-
tuencies the value of administrative reform, and to be
ready for the next election.
But, however desirable it may be to obtain a large
amount of subscriptions, it is still more important that
the association shall have the influence of numbers, and
that it shall comprise all classes. Adrainistrative Re-
form is neither a party nor a class movement ; it wages
no war against any order ; it attacks no existing right ;
it seeks but the end of an exclusiveness that sets up
party and incapacity, and shuts out merit. Men are to
be found fit for the public service in every class ; there
are those amongst the humblest who, if the barriers
against them be removed, will work their own way to in-
dependence and distinction through public nsefulnes-;.
The association desires, their help, their energy, their
influence, their numbers ; an 1 it has therefore deter-
mined that, in future, every subscriber, from a shilling
upwards, shall be enrolled and receive a card of mem-
bership.
Administrative Reform is no mere question of theory;
it is a matter of downright business, In which all are con-
cerned, and which the war renders-.doubly important to
all. It would have saved millions already in the war,
and thousands of brave lives, had our administrative sys-
tem been amended even a couple of years since ; and, if
the country be now silent upon administrative reform, or
suffer the Government to sleep over the question, or to
compromise the full principle by partial and unstable
amendments, it will still cost us millions in absolute
, waste—millions to be borne for years in increased taxes
and new burdens upon industry.
But independently of the gain. from that best of all
economy—having the public work thoroughly done by
the ablest men who can be found to do it for fair pay,
whether in our offices, our contracts, and purchase of
stores and muniments of war, the service of transports,
the use of our soldiers in the field, the care of the sick
and wounded, the management of our diplomacy, the
conduct of our consular service, the husbanding of the
time of Parliament Administrative Reform has the
claim to universal help that the tendency of the agita-
tion for its attainment is to elevate the whole people, to
put an end to that vicious system which forgets the pub-
lic good in private interest, quarters inefficiency upon
the public purse, barters the national weal to the sup-
port of party, for the maintenance that party yields,
and bars with corruption the door of the public service
against merit and fitness. Nor is this all. Administra-
tive Reform opens a new career upon equal terms to all.
It gives a new value to education—it opens a new way
to independence ; hitherto a comparatively few have had
to themselves all the good things of Government ; Ad-
ministrative Reform makes them the reward, amongst
all, of ability and industry.
Whatever objections it may be possible to take against
i the proposed system of open and competitive examina-
tion—and it would be impossible to devise any system
of determining merit against which objection would re t
be taken—the system at least has the advantage that,
fairly and honestly conducted (as under the public eye
and the public press it must be), it will have a, wider
1 usefulness than merely to test fitness for Government
employment ; it will afford every one an opportunity of
obtaining certificates of fitness which it will become a
distinction to possess, and which, in proportion to the
strictness and high character of the examinations, will
tiima f
ber eaodrileympiyunt b
received.oeu as sufficient
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atci homeentte andsti abroad.
testimonials of qualifies.
ate
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little
employment
tr
consideration,
continually
known
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ogo
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given
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nao
cuilinnnugumi
much
heammngeyenonoitidnBnE
sgPtearaTinrviC:aheetseodwitfieffi
I natured carelessness, to have much weight. Many a
man of ability, possessed of real information, and capable
of adapting himself to almost any occupation, is sent
away disheartened from application after application at
public offices, board-rooms, and private counting-houses :
such a man is really wanted in those very places,
and if ho were once employed he would make his
way, and would not readily be parted with ; but he
has no proof of his capacity to furnish but his
own account of himself, while others, a little better
known, but, it may be, greatly his inferiors, are employed
instead. The certificate of a public court of examina-
tion would serve to remedy this evil. Privatetestirno-
nials, being subject to investigation by the public exa-
miners, would be given with more care ; and the certi-
finte of the examiners would at least obtain every can-
didate for employment more respect in the course of his
applications, and would more readily gain him the op-
portunity of establishing his fitness by actual trial.
hwevoallenynoiuttbhroyertitoto the very ablest, those who would have done
suppressiontbhye
humbling public
themselves
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pntaso,t
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sks,
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pot
pfhtoeeri
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of political questions in opposition to theinconvictions.
It will better suit the genius of Englishmen to haw°
an open field—to be free to snake their own way by
their own merit —to feel that knowledge knows
no distinction of- classes—to be without the necessity
for patrons— without the humiliation of having
1 to ask as favours positions that by their own effort
and their own intelligenca they can gain as a right. It
is to accomplish this end that the Administrative Reform
Association seeks the cordial co-operation of all classes.
The committee observe, with pleasure, the tone in
which the subject has so far been discussed. No great
question has, perhan ever been kept so entirely free
from personalities, party spirit, an I all .effort to excite
angry feeling or hostility between classes ; and in this
epirie, as a. question-in Which all elassetand parties have
a common interest—as a question of progress, of educa.-

SECOND ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE.
At this period of the year, and until the close of th.ic
e
harvest, there is invariably a pause in every publ
movement. It is, however, the duty of the Association
to make provision for prosecuting the agitation for Ad-
ministrative Reform with renewed vigour.
The progress of the movement so far is encouraging.
The principle of fitness has been admitted in the ap-
pointment of the existing Board of Examiners of nomi-
nees to the office of junior clerk.
The claims of merit have been conceded in the estab-
lishment of open and competitive examination for cadet-
ships in the Royal Artillery.
The common sense business practice of holding the
heads of offices responsible for their management has
been acknowledged in the reorganisation of the War and
Ordnance Departments.
The evil of appointments for the support of party, in-
stead of the good service of the public, is yielded, so far
as mechanics are concerned, in the recent Admiralty in-
structions to the superintendents of dockyards, to em-
ploy and promote, without regard to political influences,
for fitness only, and to spare no effort to ensure fitness.
These, however, are but uncertain steps in the right
direction. The private examination of nominees will
scarcely be received by the public as anything beyond a
prohibition of utter ignorance. The public examination
for artillery cadetships omits matters of every-day im-
portance, and is overleaded with matters of no relation-
ship to the profession, and of no practical value. It is
plain that, notwithstanding these changes, the ablest
men, without patrons, can never reach the Board of
Examinees ; that, however well devised may be the
division of labour and arrangement of duties in the
'War and Ordnance Departments, their performances
can be no better than the practical ability and ex-
perience of those employed ; whilst, unless the heads
have full powers of appointment and dismissal, their re-
sponsibility must be either unreal or unreasonable. Nor
is it to be supposed that the shipwrights and other
handicraftsmen, and skilled and unskilled labourers, in
the dockyard towns, will feel safe that the full exercise
of their franchise shall never again stand in the way of
their employment and advancement, so long as there is
no better security for the measure that gives able work-
manship precedence of votes at an election, than an Ad-
miralty order, which, under another Ministry, or dif-
ferent temper of the public, may at any time be re
scinded, or suffered to lapse into disuse.
But, however incomplete those changes may be, or
however much—being at best but based upon Orders in.
Council—they may wear the aspect of experiment,
they are of importance as a surrender of the system as it
was ; and it is idle to suppose they would have been
made at all had there been no organised move-
ment for Administrative Reform. The able report
of the commission on the organisation of the perma-
nent Civil Service, and its attendant volume of papers,
abounding in valuable suggestions for the reconstitution
of the service, were suffered to remain a dead letter.
-Even at the commencement of the session, and during
the disclosures of the Sebastopol Committee, those very
branches of the service concerned in the war were de-
clared perfect ; and it was not until this association bs-
came organised that examiners were appointed, and not
before the experience of elections, debates in Parliament,
the earnest spirit of provincial meetings, the meetings in
Drury-lane Theatre, and the zealous and almost unani-
mous demand of the public press for the "right men in
the right places," had shown that the tide of populktir
opinion was unmistakeably set in for Administration
Reform, that the changes were made in the War and
Ordnance Departments, the Artillery thrown open, or
the mechanics of the dockyard districts, even nominally,
enfranchised from the bond of patronage and party.
But it will not do to be misled by these concessions,
nor to mistake the ready assent of parties on all sides of
the house te the theory of Administrative Reform f r a
hearty determination to have Administrative Reform
cerried into practice. It is one thing to yield that the
favoured nominees to places shall be shown to possess
some fitness for their duties ; it is quite a different
matter to surrender nomination altogether, and to esta-
blish fitness without patronage as the sole title
offices. How strenuously this will be resisted by thole
who have hold of the influence that enables them to litie
upon Government—those to whom Parliament is tfie
stepping stone for younger sons—the wa7 by which the
door is opened to independence, at the public cost, fir
the least competent of their relatives and friends, awl
by which boroughs are kept in hand—able candidat'rs
put down—able representa.tives silenced, and parties
kept together without measures, without principles,
and in , defiance of the public good—may be judgr; d
of by the opposition with which even the half-way pro-
posal, that proof of fitness should precede nomieation,
and should be determined in open competitive examina-
tion, was met and defeated in the last session.
There will, doubtless, be some further peddling with
the matter—some few more good appointments here and
there, as occasion may compel a change—here and there
an order of Boards or in Council in aid of merit, but
loose enough to slip out of force, by and bye ; and there
will be a great show of work—abundant pledges at the
hustings—a marvellous pretence of sympathy with fit-
ness and merit ; but there will be no fixed principle 'of
Administrative Reform established, unless the question
be taken up in earnest by the people. The monopoly of
the good things of Government is far too precious to he
readily surrendered by the favoured circles of Lords and
Commons, who, keeping a lion's share to themselves, dis-
tribute the remainder so judiciously as to secure office,
and the reversion of office, in perpetual round, to their
especial cliques.
There must be no occasion left in the next session, or
the next Parliament, for any doubt as to the will of the
people upon Administrative Reform. It must be demanded
on the ground of the purgation of Parliament from the
corruption of place-hunting—demanded on grounds of
public economs —demanded as an impulse to education,
as a right of knowledge, as essential to the character of
the nation and to the safety of the State. It must i'be
°lntended for in the registration courts, at the hustings,
at the poll, and before election committees.
It has been determined upon, as the leading principle
of the association, that the system of patronage shall be
brought to an end ; that the representatives of the people
shall be placed beyond suspicion of subserviency to Go-
vernment or party, in the hope of preferment on their
own account, or of places to secure their hold upon con-
stituents ; that the control of the Treasury over mem-
bers of Parliament, by gifts of appointments, shall
cease ; and that a system of appointment and promotion,
based upon character, merit, and proved fitness, shall
be established throughout every department of the pub-

tion.
5. Every male subject of her Majesty, who has tot
been dismissed from any branch of the public service,
may present himself at any such time and place for exa-
mination, and shall be then and there examined accord-
ing to the regulation of the board. If any person so
examined shows thereby that he has the qualifications
required to admit him to compete for employment in the
civil service, he may require, and the assistant examiners
shall deliver to him, a certificate of the same.
6. The board shall cause a register to be kept of the
names, descriptions, and addresses of all persons so ad-
mitted to compete.
7. The board of examiners shall, from time to time, by
inquiry of the heads of offices and departments, ascer-
tain the special qualifications required for the service of
each office or department or of any particular branch or
division thereof. They shall from time to time frame a
scheme of a series of competitive examinations for the
purpose of ascertaining the qualifications of candidates
for clerkships in the civil service. And the first class of
such series shall be framed with a view to ascertain the
general qualifications of candidates, and the other classes
of such series shall be framed with a view to ascertain
the special qualifications required in clerks in particular
departments or divisions of the civil service. And in
every class of such series a number of marks shall be
fixed for the maximum of excellence in respect of each
subject of examination and a number of marks consti-
tuting the minimum of qualification. They shall on the
Ist of January in every year, and so often as the scheme
of competitive examination is altered, cause to be pub-
lished in the London Gazette a copy of such scheme.
8. They shall on the let of January in every year give
notice in the London Gazette of the places and times ap-
pointed for such examinations. They shall conduct
the examination of all persons who duly present them-
selves for competitive examination in some place to which
the public may freely resort. They may, for the purpose
of examination in any special class, be assisted by any
person or persons whom they may think proper.
9. Every person who has obtained a certificate of ad-
missibility to compete may present himself at any such
place and time for examination ; and he may require to
be examined as to his qualifications in any particular
class or classes exclusively ; and if in such examination
he obtain a number of marks equal to that fixed as the
minimum of qualification, the Board of Examiners shall
enter his name, description, and address on the register
of candidates for appointment as clerks in the civil ser-
vice, with the number of marks obtained by him on exa-
mination, and the class or classes in which they were so
obtained ; and shall deliver to hint a certificate of the
sane under their hands.
10. The board shall keep a register of all persons who
have passed the competitive examination, distinguishing
the classes in which they have passed, and the number of
marks obtained in each class respectively. The board
shall keep a register of the address of every such person
so long as such person remains on the list of candidates,
and until he has accepted of some probationary or other
appointment in the civil service ; and whenever such
person gives notice to the board of any change in his
address they shall cause such change to be made in the
register accordingly.
11. After the first competitive examination under this
act, whenever it became necessary to appoint a clerk in
any office or department maintained by funds provided
by Parliament (including the civil departments of the
army and navy), unless some person previously employed
in the public service be appointed as such clerk, the
head of such office or department shall notify the same
to the Board of Examiners, and shall state whether the
qualifications required in the clerk to be appointed be
general or special, and if they be special, of what class.
And the Board of Examiners shall thereupon, by letter
directed to the address from time to time given by
each candidate, or otherwise, offer such appointment
to that per-ion on the register of candidates who has
obtained the greatest number of marks in the class
from which the appointment is required to be made ;
and if the same be not accepted by such person within
days, then to the person on the register who has
obtained the next greatest number of marks, and so on
in succession. And if no person in the class for whom
the appointment is required to be made accept the same,
such appointment shall be thrown open to all those per-
sons who have passed a competitive examination, and
every such person may claim such appointment, and the
board shall cause notice thereof to be exhibited publicly
in some place open to all candidates ; and if more than
one such person make such claim, that person who has
received the greatest number of marks shall be entitled
to be appointed ; and if amongst such persons there be
two or more who have obtained an equal number of
marks, they shall be re-examined in respect of the sub-
jects of examination of the class from which the appoint-
ment was first required to be made, and every one mem-
ber or the board may conduct such examination ; and the
person who at such examination obtains the greatest
number of marks shall be entitled to the appointment.
12. If any candidate accept of such appointment he
shall be appointed on probation for one year, but he may
be dismissed during such year for incompetency or im-
proper conduct. When any person has so received an
appointment, the same shall be entered in the register of
candidates, and he shall be no longer deemed a candle-
da'e for appointment.
13. But in case any person having received an ap-
pointment resign the same, if he produce a certificate of
good conduct from the head of the office or department
to which he was so appointed, he may present himself
again for any competitive examination, and if he pass
the same shall be again entered on the register of can-
didates accordingly.
14. Provided always that nothing in this act con-
, tamed shall alter or affect the powers of any bead of any
office or department or other person to regulate the
duties and promotions of clerks therein, or their suspen-
sion or dismissal therefrom.
15. The Board of Examiners shall, on the
in every year, make a report in writing of their proceed-
ings, during the year preceding, under this act ; and
shall include therein a list of the names, descriptions, arid
addresses of all persons who within the year have passed
a competitive examination, distinguishing the class or
classes passed, and the total number of marks obtained
by each person. And also a list of all persons who,
having passed an examination under thii act, have with-
in the year accepted any appointment under the pro-
visions of this act.
16. No examiner, assistant examiner, secretary, or
registrar appointed under this ant shall be competent to
be elected or to sit or serve in the Commons House of
Parliament.

CIESAREWITCH STAKES.
7 to 1 agst Robgill (taken and offered)
8 to 1 apt King Tom (taken and offered)
oto 1 agst Mr. Sykes (taken)
10 to 1 agst Sultan (taken freely)
15 to 1 agst Brother to Grey Tommy (offered)
20 to 1 agst Monarque (offered)
20 to 1 agst Black Swan (offered)
20 to 1 agst Neville (offered)
20 to 1 agst Crown Pigeon (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Veteran (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Lady Tatton
40 to 1 agst Bo4on
40 to 1 agst Eulogist
1000 to 15 agst Orinoco
1000 to 15 agst Paletot
Sultan in great force.
The following six were hacked against the field :
Robgill, Mr. Sykes, King Totn, Sultan, Brother ti Grey
Tommy, and Monarque.
DERBY.
2000 to 40 agst Long Rifle (taken)

(From a Supplement to Friday's Gazette.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT. 8.
Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch, and
its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad-
dressed to his lordship by General Simpson :
Sebastopol, September 25.
My Lord,—l have the honour to transmit the report
of the principal medical officer for this week, ending
18th September, which, by mistake, I omitted to send
before.
Your lordship will read with satisfaction that the
health of the army is all that can be desired, and the
marked improvement since the arduous night duties
have ceased is very apparent.
The troops continue to be employed in the construc-
tion of the roads, and in making preparations for the
winter,t,
are
greatly facilitated by the fineness of
ht weather.
The enemy have commenced firing into the town, and
the troops stationed there for the purpose of performing
fatigue duties have been, in consequence, withdrawn.
Large quantities of timber and building material are
daily taken from the houses by our troops.—l have, &c.,
JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding.
The Lord Panmure, &c.
(Enclosure 1.)
Head-Quarters, Sebastopol, Sept. 18.
Sir—l have the honour to transmit the weekly state
of sick to the 15th instant, and have much satisfaction
in being able to state that the health of the army con-
tinues to improve. During the period embraced by this
return the admissions from wounds, owing to the as-
sault of the Redan battery, have been numerous, and the
number of deaths, I am sorry to say, is very considera-
ble ; but the cases that remain are for the most doing
well, and a large portion of them are of a slight nature,
and many of the men will soon be restored to the ranks.
Cholera continues to decrease, and may now be said to
have almost disappeared, and during the present week
there has been a diminution of every other form of disease,
as will be seen by the following abstract, in which it
will be obseried that our gunshot accidents alone are in
excess over the previous week.
This week.
Admitted. Died
Fevers ............ 349 15
Diarhoea ......... 493 4
Cholera ............ 21 11
Dysentery ......... 139 7
Wounds ......... 1,965 150
Other diseases... 628 7

1 & 16 moll

18;16 moil

When any of these. dates fall on a Sunday, the mails will be de-
ipatche4 on the following day, with the exception of the In,iis (via
southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched the
preceding day.

Co.
Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead
—Smith and Whittingstall
Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin
Sharpies, and Co.
Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and
Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—
Morgan and Co
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co.
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk,
Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—
Alexanders and Co.
Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall,
and Co.
Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—
Davies and Co.
Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough—Harrison and Co
Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson,
and Co.
Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and

5,50

MONDAY, October 8.
Stations. Course of Wind. State of Weather.
Greenwich S.W Partially cloudy.
Lothbury.
Nottingham
Derby S.W Fine.
Brighton S.E.
Great Grimsby... W. Fine.
Gainsborough .... W... .....
Boston N.N.W..... Cloudy.
Holyhead
Dublin E.
Liverpool
Southampton ... -W Fine.
Portsmouth E.
Cowes S.W Cloudy.
Poole S.W Fine.
Leamington Calm Foggy—Cold.
Leeds W Fine.
Manchester S.S.W . Fine.
Sheffield N
Stoke-on-Treut.... S. W Foggy.
Whitehaven N.
Carlisle.
Maryport.. S.E.
Cambridge S.
Lowestoft .... ..... W.S.W Fine.
Yarmouth W Rain.
Amsterdam W Rain.
Shrewsbury N.E. Frosty.
Bristol S.E Fine.
Gloucester
Swansea S.E.Rain.
Plymouth
Exeter..... ...... .... S.W Rain.
Cardiff E.
Glasgow E.N.E Fine.
Aberdeen N. Cloudy.
Perth
Dundee
Edinburgh S
Berwick
Darlington S.
Whitby
York
Sunderland E. ...... ...... Fine.
Newcastle . S.W Fine.
Scarborough
Hull W.N.W Fine.
Ipswich S.W Fine.
Tonbridge
Strood S.W. Partially cloudy.

9,045

Sons
Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C.
Harvey and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co.
Leeds Union. Bank, Leeds—W. Williams,
Brown and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, 25,709
Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 26,223
Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene 10,775
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. 74,103
Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan-
ciao Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle-
ton and Cradock
Lyrnington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and

5,045
53,470

Previous week.
Admitted. Diet
. 396 20
. 561 7
• 25 20
169 4
• 702 56
• 48L 5

22,602

3,618

Co.
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn
Regis—Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Jarvis and. Co 10,978
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst
and Co.
Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and

3,500 194
The admissions to strength this week have been 7.22
per cent. ; last week they were 4.91 per cent.
The deaths to strength this week have been 0.40 per
cent. ; last week they were 0.23 per cent.
The sick to well this week 12.0 per cent. ; last
week it was 10.96 per cent.—l hJ. ise, &c.,
HALL,
Inspector-General of Hospitals.
General Simpson, Commanding-in-Chief.
Enclosure 2.

12,800

lic service.
As a first practical step in this reform a bill has been
prepared, by which, if it become law, the gift of junior
clerkships in the civil service will be taken from the
Treasnry, and the whole of the appointments of that
class thrown open to public competitive examination.
This is but a beginning. It is not intended that
junior clerkships shall alone, or the civil service only,
be rescued from the degrading system of patronage, awl
secured to merit; and that all other appointments shall
remain to be -even by- Parliamentary influence, nepo-
tism, and party. It is intended that this bill should he
followed by others, carrying out, to the fullest extent,
the principle of fitness, not favouritism, in every branch
of the service of the public and the Crown. But before
those measures of reform essential to a sound naval,
military, and diplomatic system can be stated in detail,
a vast amount of information, involving the necessity of
extended inquiries under able assistance, at considerable
cost, both here and in other countries, more particularly
as to the Army and Navy, the Consular and Diplomatic
services, has still to be collected, popularised, published,
and circulated amongst the electors, who must be tho-
oughly prepared to meet their representatives and can-
didates, at all points, upon the question.
It should be understood, too, and constituencies
should spare no effort to impress upon their representa-
tives, that Ministers must expect to be challenged upon
the grounds of every appointment they may make. It is
of the utmost moment to the prevention of attempts to
quarter incapacity upon the public service," that the Mi-
nister properly responsible shall, in every instancewhere
there is no public competitive examination test, be called
upon to show that he has conferred the appointment for
fitness fully establisked by some acknowledged criterion
of merit, or as the reward of public service, or of devo-
tion to the public good.
It is also essential to sound A.dininistrative manage-
ment that the heads of departments shall be responsible
for the whole duties of their several offices ; they must
be armed with a power over their subordinates connnen •
stn ate with that responsibility; and if, thus armed, they
fail, abler men must be sought to take their places. The
nation can never hope to have its business
ducted until, as in private business, it properly con-
insists on the
dismissal of servants who have how themselves un-
eqnal to their work.

Co.
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl-
boro Ugh Old Bank and Ilungerford Bank,
and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan•
ner and Co
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and

The Journal de la Vienne says :—" The suspensiorl
bridge of Lussac-les-Chateaux fell down a few days back
when undergoing the usual preparatory trial before beiD%
delivered to circulation. It was to have supported
weight of 43,000 kilogrammes during a period
48 hours, but it gave way when only 55,000 had been
placed on it. No person was injured by the fall."

Head-Quarters, Sebastopol,
Sept. 25, 1854.

Sir,—ln transmitting the weekly state of sick to the
22d inst., I have much satisfaction in stating that the
sanitary condition of the army is satisfactory, and were
the casualties of war deducted from the list it would be
very favourable indeed. As it is the admissions to
strength during the present week have only been 2.98
per cent., and some of these were transfers front regi-
mental to general hospitals.
The deaths to strength have been 0.20 per cent. ; and
the sick to well is 10.02 per cent. Last week these pro-
portions were, 7'22, 9.40, and 12 00 per cent., respec-
tively. Deducting the casualties of war the proportion
of sick to well this week would be 6'26 per cent., and
that of deaths to strength 0.05 per cent.
The following abstract shows the near approximation
of disease and death between this and the preceding
week :

Son
Miners' Bank, Truro—Willy ams and Co
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial
Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co
Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre-
con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old
Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank,
Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co
Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock,

BIRTHS.

OP A SON.

On the 6th inst., at Hammersmith, Mrs. Alfred Bird.
On the sth inst., the wife of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite,
Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law.
On the sth inst., at Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, the vt:to
~.
of 11. IL trpcher, Esq.

and Co
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket--Eaton, Ham-
mond, and Co
Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk
Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons...
Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur-
neys and Birkbeck
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co
Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris
and Co. .................................... .
New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co.._
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith

OF A DAUGHTER.
On the Gth inet., at Croxley Cottage, Rickmanawortbi
forte, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Kelly, her Majesty's 3113
Regiment.
On the 7th inst., at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Mrs. le'
H. Talman.

This week. Previous week.
Admitted. Died. Admitted. Died
Fevers
Diarrhoea 446 4 498 4
Cholera 7 3 2t 11
Dysentery, 146 5 139
1965 170
"Wounds Bl* 76 5
528 7
Other diseases 523 3

Total 1,5.1 100
The only head under which there is a remarkable and
decided decrease in the admissions is wounds, and 2 out
of the 84 of these were transfers to the General Hospital
at Balaklava. The number of
bdeaths from wounds is,
I regret to say, considerable, ut, a great
the c many men
were shot through the upper part of hest in the
assault on the ltedan, and wounds of that nature are
always serious ; but a large proportion of the wounds
were slight, as is evinced by the discharges this and the
preceding week, amounting to about 1,000 men, de-
ducting those transferred to General Hospital.
Cholera has nearly disappeared, and there has been no
increase in the other forms of bowel complaints, and
the health of all the divisions is reported by the different
Superintendent Medical Officers to be highly satisfac-
tory. In the 3d Division no death occurred during the
the
week, and in the 4th only one, from an njskull, During the week we have had strong equinoctial
gales, with heavy rain, which has reduced the tempera-
ture considerably, and rendered the weather delightful.
The men are employed on fatigue duties in making
roads and preparing for their own comforts during the
winter ; but the night duty is light. Their rations are
good and abundant, and everything is favourable to
health.—l have, &c.,

Oxford
sxawfnoedrsdteroy:
d Bank,
Banki:a.!
Oxford—Robinson,
oy. i Oldns o. "n
Parsons,
:On .ss.:
westry—Croxon and Co
and Cc.
Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton-
bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton-
bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ten-
bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W.
Clinch and Co. ...................
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank
and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co
Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and C 0....
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—D. Yorke and Co. ...................
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—j. and
W. Walters.. . ..... ...............................
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and C 0.....
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy,
and Co. ...............................................
Richmond Bank, Richmond Roper and Co.
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co. .............................. ..
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Ba,nk, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson ,
Royston Bank, Royston—Fonlllam and_ Sons
,11,.;gebByitBnaka, kiyße—ugEby.-05.!‘i,oBraintlienti
andan CoSon

On all these points the people much to learn ;
w and it cannot- be taught them considerable
outlay, and no snr.ll sacrifice of time an:effort on the
part of those to whom, in the several localities, they look
for counsel to is not possible an agitation like
t
the presen an be carried on without a large expenditure,
of which Piiiitink necessarily fornis an" iMportant
the more considerable from the increased demand

JOHN HALL,
Inspector-General of Hospitals.
General Simpson, Commanding-in-Chief.

. .
* Two of this number were transfers to Cteneral Hozpital.