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LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

Business
this day,

LONDON, April I.—lt bleW a gale of wind last night,
with heavy squalls of rain, but moderated towards three
eclock this morning, and at day-light was moderate and
fine. Wind this day at Noon, S.W., moderate breeze, and
cloudy at times.—A fire broke out on the 30th of March,
on board the Unicorn, for Melbourne, lying in the Shad-
well Basin of the London Docks, but it was got under with
trifling damage.
DEAL, April I.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—The Jersey, from
London to Berbice, is on shore at Kingstown ; cargo dis-
charging. Arrived—Slavomer, Verone, Odeesa.
PORTSMOUTH, March 31.—Wind, S. to S.E. Arrived—
Queen of Britain, Lovell, Berbice. Sailed—H.M.'s steamer
Espiegle, West Indies ; H.M.'s steamer Rifleman, East-
ward.

COWES, March 31.—Wind, S. Arrived—Great Britain,
Hale, California.

FALMOUTH, March 31 . —Wind, S: S.W. Arrived—Dante,
Pernambuco ; Belvidere, Taganrog ; Ann and Isabel,
Ibrail ; Helena, Odessa ; Creinea, Buenos Ayres.
LIVERPOOL, March 31.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—
Success, Queen of England, and Rosamond, Shanghai ;
Joseph Shepherd, and Anna Dorothea, Bombay ; Pick-
wick, Graves, Islay; Alarm, Buenos Ayres; Windsor,
Pepper, Para ; Daring, St. Domingo ; Equator, New Or-
leans ; Saranak, Deccan, Philadelphia ; Roscius, New
York ; C. F. Bennett, Burgoyne, Newfoundland ; Galled,
Alfred, and Primrose, St. Michael's ; Macedondia, Alexan-
dria ; Kate, St. 13bes. Off Port—Black-eyed Susan, La-
guna ; Tara, Bombay ; Indian Ocean, New Orleans.
Sailed—Ebba Brahe, Melbourne ; Pelloma, Africa; Em-
migrant, Caldera ; Belle, Paraiba ; Post Boy, Vera Cruz ;
Midas, Staten Island ; White Cloud, and City of Man-
cqester. Put back—William Miles, Savannah.
ELSINORE, March 23.—The Eurydice, M'Kinlay, arrived
here from London ; reports having seen nine ships in shore
off Laisbe, March 20.
LIMERICK, March 30.—Arrived—Hannah, Hutchinson,
Constantinople.
SLIGO, March 30.—Sailed—Linden, Gillan, New York.
STRAVANGER, March 18. —The Vrouw Elisabeth, from
Linden to Kragerve, was driven on shore on the Hoiting
Rocks last night, and was assisted off very leaky ; but it is
doubtful whether she can be repaired.
SWANSEA, March 31.—Wind, S.S.E Arrived—Ro-
derick Dhu, and Cuba, Coquimbo ; Goleonda, St. Jago de

Cubo,

SCILLY, March 30.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Ambas-
sador' Malta ; Ruby, Priest, Odessa ; Ashley, Pippett,
Galatz ; Titania, Vars, Buenos Ayres ; Margaret and Jane,
Ellis, Magadore. Off Port—Hope (brig), Odessa.

SUICIDE OF A FRENCHMAN. —On Thursday week,
Louisa Harrison, in the service of Barthelemi Beaugrand,
egg and fruit dealer, Canterbury, on going up stairs
found the door leading from the first landing to the attic
fastened inside with a penknife ; and, having her fears
aroused, pushed it open, when she found her master
hanging to the baluster. She called her mistress, who
immediately cut her husband down, but he was quite
dead. An inquest was held the same day before Mi.
Delasaux. The above facts were related, and, in addi-
tion, that since Christmas last deceased had been in a
desponding way, though on the morning of that day the
servant had observed him to be better than usual. Since
Christmas he had often threatened to destroy himself,
and pieces of rope were occasionally found in his pocket.
The servant bad seen him only half an hour previous to
finding him a corpse. It appears also from what we
learn on inquiryl that deceased some time since fled
from his country in consequence of some offence ; but
happening to revisit the scene a short time since, it had
an effect upon his mind, which led to temporary de-
rangement, in a fit of which he destroyed himself. A
verdict of " Insanity" was returned.—Maidstone
Journal.

Two HUNDRED FAMILIES PAUPERISED.—Yesterday
an extraordinary scene presented itself. at St. Pancras
Workhouse, nearly 200 families demanding admission to
the workhouse. It appears that the Paving Board of
the south-western district resolved to carry out tho
powers of their act of Parliament, and cause the removal
of all the stalls which have for the last quarter of a cen-
tury occupied the western side of Tottenham Court-road.
The requisite notice to the *tallkeepers having expired,
they were removed on Monday. The entire staff of re-
lieving-officers were engaged the whole day in affording
temporary relief, pending inquiry into the meg,

Admiralty, March 14, 1853. R. OSBORNE, Secretary,

PART I.
ADMISSION TO THE YARD.
Apprentices.
The Surveyor of the Navy will report to their lordships,
on the 20th of June and December, the number of vacan-
cies for apprentices in each dockyard which require to be
filled up. Appointments will be made by their lordships
to these vacancies so soon as the candidates are examined
at the respective yards, which is to take place between the
sth and 12th of July and January.
Candidates for examination will be placed on a list to be
kept by the superintendent ; but no person is to bo placed
on that list without the authority of their lordships. Due
regard will be shown to the recommendations of the super-
intendent and the yard officers, where they relate to the
children of deserving officers and artificers at present serv-
ing or who formerly served in the yards, and the super-
intendents are to send to the Admiralty on the first of
every month a list of those boys whom they consider should
be placed on the list. My lurds reserve to themselves the
right of directing the children of persons out of the yard,
or of persons in her Majesty's service, whom they may
deem entitled to the privilege, to be entered upon the list,
but no one is to be placed thereon whose age shall exceed
15 on the day of examination. No boy will on any account
be admitted as an apprentice without a competent know-
ledge of reading, writing, and the four first rules of arith-
metic; and so soon as the public examination is completed,
which is to be held in the presence of the superintendent
and at least one of the principal officers, by the schoolmas-
ter, he is to prepare, under the supervision of the superin-
tendent, a statement of the relative merits of the candi-
dates, for transmission to their lordships ; one-half of the
admissions will be given to those boys who stand at the
head of the graduated list, the other half will be awarded
with reference to the claims of their parents. With this
object the superintendent will have attached to each boy's
name the claims of his parents, to enable their lordships to
come to a fair decision ; but in every case of the entry of a
boy he must be in good health, and otherwise in all respects
fit for the service.
Boa: Wages for Apprentices.--Board wages for appren-
tices will be granted hereafter solely upon the recommen-
dations of the superintendent and the officers of the yard,
who will take care to use them as an encouragement to
merit, with a due regard to the circumstances of each fa-
mily, which must be stated to their lordships by the super-
intendent when he applies for their sanction.
Apprentices out of their Tinte.—lt is their lordships' in-
tention that apprentices who have completed theirs time
should be nominated to fill the vacanciess for shipwrights
in the yards ; but no apprentice is to be entered upon the
establishment without a written report from the master
shipwright, transmitted through the superintendent, as to
his conduct and qualifications, and this report is to make
special reference to the character given of the apprentice
in the quarterly returns by his leading man and inspector,
to which the school report is to be appended. His entry
upon the yard books, when out of his time, cannot be
claimed as a matter of right, but will not be withheld
without just cause and proper investigation, and with this
view -vacancies will, as far as possible, be kept open in the
different yards.
The apprentices will attend the dockyard schools during
the first three years of their apprenticeship. Those who
desire to continue their attendance for another year will be
allowed to do so if the schoolmaster report favourably of
their industry and good conduct, and permispion to attend
school during a fifth year may be extended to those whom
the superintendent shall consider deserving of this indul-
gence.

Artificers.—Artificers will be nominated to the remain-
ing vacancies in the yard by order of their lordships, but
no person will on any account be entered unless found to
be in every respect qualified by ability, character, and con-
stitution, to be certified on examination before the superin-
tendent and professional officers ; and, if found fit, he will
be entered on probation for one mouth ; and if at the end
of that time his qualifications are satisfactory, he may then
be placed on the establishment.

Exchanges or Transfers front one Yard to another.—lf an
artificer or other person in any of the yards, by reason of
health or other satisfactory grounds, wishes to be removed
to another yard, he is to m^ he application to his officer,
for the information of the superintendent, who will take
the necessary steps if the person is deserving of this in-
dulgence.

PROMOTION.
It is the object of their lordships, in framing these regu-
lations, to award promotion to merit on public grounds,
and on public grounds alone. But, in forming a decision
upon the relative merits of candidates, great care must be
taken in apportioning with judgment and fairness the
amount of encouragement to which different kinds of merit
are entitled ; and though the board appreciate and will
always encourage as it deserves all possible progress in the
branches of knowledge which form the basis of the exami-
nations, they are of opinion that "good and faithful ser-
vices" are by no means to be lost sight of, and that "prac-
tical knowledge" is of the greatest possible importance in
conducting the business of the yard.
Their lordships therefore desire that henceforward the
names of all the candidates for promotion are to be for-
warded to them through the Surveyor of the Navy, in the
order in which they stand in their examination, and that,
together with the original documents, a full report is to be
transmitted, not only of the " length of service" of the
candidates, but of their character and practical know-
ledge ; and the board will, on consultation with the sur-
veyor, then make their selection, not altogether, or in all
cases, with sole reference to proficiency in scholastic ac-
quirements, but with such regard to other points of merit
as may appear just; and with the view of obtaining correct
information of the ability and character of all persons in
the dockyards, my lords desire that the quarterly, half-
yearly, and yearly reports upon which all future recom-
mendations are to be founded be filled up with strict care
and imp-, ality.
Their lordships wish it to be distinctly understood that
in making their selection they will proceed on public
grounds alone, and that when men are once admitted to
the dockyards it is their lordships' determination that they
should look to their own merit and ability for future pro-
motion : and they have to caution all parties concerned,
that every application out of the authorised course, whether
direct or indirect, will not only be discountenanced, but
will tend to check the future advancement of such parties,

System of Periodical Returns.

Quarterly Bdurns.j-Using the forms that have been
already adopted, you will direct each leading man to pre-
pare, in his own handwriting, a quarterly return of the
conduct of the men composing his gang, which he will
hand over, when completed, to his inspector, stating in it,
on the one hand, any causes of complaint that he may see
reason to make against the men for waste of stores, neglect
of work, insubordination, or insobriety, and, on the other,
his opinion of their respective merits.
Inspector's Report to Foreman.—Tho inspector will trans-
mit these returns, when completed, to the foreman of the
yard, under whom he is more immediately serving, accom-
panied by remarks, also in his own handwriting, and stat-
ing whether, in his judgment, the leading men have done
their duty satisfactorily ; and the foreman, whose business
it is to make themselves personally acquainted with the cha-
racter and conduct of all who work under them, will in like
manner trans-...-it the inspector's reports and returns, so
soon as they have reported on them, to the master ship-
wright, stating how far their own opinion confirms the
character given of the gangs by the leading men and
inspectors.

Both the foremen and the inspectors will include in these
returns the single station men placed under their orders,
who, with the artificers, form the class out of which the
leading men are to be selected. Other single station men
are to be reported upon in like manner by the officer under
whose immediate orders they are serving.
The superintendents are to take case not to permit these
returns to lapse into a matter of form. The superior ship-
wright officers must investigate them closely at tho end of
every quarter ; and the inferior officers and leading men
will be noted by the Surveyor of the Navy, for the infor-
mation of the Admiralty, according to the ability displayed
in them.

Mode of Recommending for Promotion as Leading Man,.
--It is their lordships' direction that the quarterly return
made originally by the leading man, should pass on to the
master shipwright, with the remarks of the inspectors and
foremen attached to it ; and whenever a vacancy for a lead-
ing man occurs, the superintendent will direct the master
shipwright, with his assistants, to lay before him the three
names which they recommend for promotion, stating, in
writing, the grounds of their recommendation, and produc-
ing the returns upon which it is founded. It is the duty
of the superintendent to make strict inquiry, and to inves-
tigate closely these returns and recommendations, and if he
see reason to suppose that they have not been prepared
with perfect impartiality, to report the same to the Ad-
miralty..

Examination.—He will also direct the candidates to be
examined, in his presence, by the master shipwright and
his assistants, in those matters which are essential to the
proper performance of their duties.

Qualifications of a Leading 11;7.—T0 a leading man, an
artificer should, in addition to a thorough practical know-
ledge of his trade, be able to write a legible hand; he
should understand arithmetic, as far as vulgar and decimal
fractions ; and he should be well acquainted with the de-
tails of forming and combining the different parts of a ship,
and the various methods used in trimming and fastening
them. Upon all these points the superintendent will draw
up a report, which he will transmit through the Surveyor
of the Navy to the Admiralty, with the original documents
annexed to it, submitted to him by the master shipwright.
The surveyor will report his opinion of the claims of the
respective parties ; and from the list of candid: tes one of
the names thus sent up will be appointed by board order
to fill the vacancy.
Promotion from Leading Man to Inspector.
Half-yearly Report of Foremen on Conduct of Inspedors
and Leading Men.—My lords regard it as the peculiar
duty of the master shipwright, his assistants, and the fore-
men of the yard, to watch over the conduct of the leading
men and the inspectors ; and they desire that on the Ist of
January and July the foremen will prepare a report upon
the efficiency or inefficiency of the officers serving under
them, which is to be kept in the master shipwright's office,
stating any grounds of complaint that they may have
against them, and any particular cause of satisfaction, such
as the increased efficiency of labour, a greater economy in
the use of stores, or any other circumstance which they
may think conducive to the better conduct of the work, for
which they aro responsible.

The original Reports of Foremen on Officers to be sent at
the end of the Year to the .Admiralty.—My lords desire that
these reports be submitted through the Surveyor of the
Navy for their information. They are to be sent up on
the 10th of January and July, with the remarks of the
master shipwright attached to them ; and the promotion
of the fo7einen to tbe rank of master shipwright's assistants
will depend very mach upon the impression thus given of
their intelligence raid capacity.
Mode of .Recommending for an Inspectorship.—When a
vacancy for an inspector occurs, the superintendent will
direct the master shipwright to select from the leading
men, and from the draughtsmen in the mould loft, the
names of the individuals whom he thinks most comperent
to fill it, and submit them to him, with the reports of the
foremen upon which his recommendation is founded. The
superintendent, in addition to these, will call for the re-
ports made by the inspectors to the foremen, and pay par.
ticular attention to the returns prepared by the leading
men, as well as to the
qualifications of the draughtsmen,
who are put in nomination, as these ought to flirnish proof
of their zeal and intelligence as subordinates ; and having
satisfied his own mind as to the fitness of the individuals
submitted to hina for the oface of inspector, and as to the

REGULATIONS OF THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS, &c.

Her Majesty having been pleased, by her order in coun-
cil of the 11th instant, to confirm, with her approval, the
accompanying regulatiors, which are henceforth to be
adopted, for the entry and promotion of all persons in her
Majesty's dock and victualling yards ; they are now issued,
by command of their lordships, for the guidance of the re-
spective superintendents and professional officers, and in-
formation of all persons employed therein, and to whom
they are to be made known.

fairness with which they have been selected, he will, as in
the case of the leading men, direct them to be examined,
in his presence, by the master shipwright and his assistants.
Qualification of an Inspector.—To be, an inspector; a man
should write well, he should understand arithmetic, as far
as vulgar and decimal fractions, and be able to measure
plain surfaces and cubes. He should likewise understand
laying off ships on the mould-loft floor, and the details of
forming and combining the different parts of ships, the
various modes of fastening them, and the correct methods
of taking account of work.
Report of Superintendent.—The superintendent will ad-
vert to all these points in his report, stating his own
opinion of the capacity of the candidates, and one of the
names this sent up will be selected to fill the vacancy.
Pays and Duties of Inspectors.—The claims of the in-
spectors having been taken into consideration by their
lordships in 1847, and increase of pay granted—viz., to
first-class inspectors 1501. per annum, and to second-class
inspectors 1251., their lordships fully expect these officers
will take their proper place as a class of intelligent and
independent officers, upon whose exertions the discipline of
the yard will be maintained ; and they have it in their
power to repay the public for the encouragement which has
been given to them, by increased vigilance and attention in
the discharg,e of their duties; but if they should prove to
be negligent ol• inattentive in the fulfilment of their duties,
it will be the duty of the superintendent to make the same
known to their lordships, that the party may be reduced
t) tlaa second class.

Shoaling of the Yards.
Three Leading Men under each Inspector. Twenty Ship-
wrights, including Apprentices, under each Leading Man.
--My lords have already given orders to place three lead-
ing men under each inspector, and to assign to each lead-
ing man a gang of 20 artificers, with the proper proportion
of apprentices.

Measurer's Office.
Their lordships, as a check to extravagance in the use of
materials, and in order to bring the work actually done to
a proper standard, re-established the " Measurer's" Office,
as introduced in 1809, by order in Council, upon the re-
commendation of the Board of Naval Revision, assigning
to it, what it had not before, a control over the expendi-
ture of materials, as well as over the application of labour,
and placing the office itself upon a more economical foot-
ing. They are convinced of the necessity of having in the
dockyards, where the works are so extensive and the busi-
ness so complicated, a system of keeping accurate accounts,
and of checking the issue of stores and materials ; and
they conceive that the means of effecting this may be found
by employing in each of the larger wards four measurers,
who, with four shipwright writers, will form, under the
master shipwright, an office for the measurement of work
done—the formation of estimates for repairs, and the state-
ment of actual expenditure. It will be the duty of the
superintendent, as well as the professional officers, to watch
the working of this system, and to see that the intention
and views of their lordships are fully carried out.

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Foremen of Yard.
The foremen of the yard are to be selected from the
whole body of inspectors, assistant timber converters, mea-
surers, and first-class draughtsmen, giving a preference,
under ordinary circumstances, to inspectors of the first
class, but reserving the right to promote from the second
class, upon a special report, in cases of extraordinary ser-
vices or merit.
Vacancies, how filled.—When a vacancy for a foreman
occurs, the superintendent will direct the master ship-
wright to submit the names of all the candidates to him,
who will follow, in all respects, the rules laid down for the
promotion of inspectors and leading men, taking care,
however, that the examination is conducted with due
reference to the higher qualification required in this class
of officers.
Qualifications of Foreman.—To be a foreman, a man
should have a competent knowledge of simple equations in
algebra, and be able to work problems deduced from the
three first book of Euclid. He should also have a thorough
knowledge of the mode of laying off ships upon the mould-
loft floor, and understand all the different modes of form-
ing and combining them. These qualification are to be
stated in the report made by the superintendent to the
surveyor for the information of the Admiraltry, accompa-
nied by his own remarks as to the manner in which the
candidates have discharged their duties as inspectors, and
by the reports which they have themselves drawn up as to
the conduct of the leading men and artificers working
under them, during the preceding 12 months ; and my
lords will then, on having a report from the surveyor,
select one of the candidates to fill the vacancy.

Good Service Grants.
My lords, having, in 1847, recommended to Parliament
that, in consideration of the important duties performed
by the foreman, and the unavoidable slowness of their
promotion, a gratuity of 501. should be given annually to
one foreman in each of the yards, who will be selected by
their lordships, on consultation with the Surveyor of the
Navy, in April of each year, with due reference to length
of service and general character, as well as to the intelli-
gence and integrity with which, upon the examination of
the half-yearly reports, he may appear to have discharged
the duties with which the foremen have been intrusted
since 1847. They regard this grant in the light of a good-
reward, to be given up upon promotion. But the foremen
are to be informed that this gratuity is given for the year
only, but that it may be repeated where any special ser-
vice is rendered in the ensuing year, such service being
specially reported by the superintendent.