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DR. CULVERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and
LONG LIFE.
In pocket volumes Is. each, by post (in stamps), Is. 6d. each.
H 0 IV TO BE HAPPY.
" Jucunde Vivere."—Cic.
2.

WIIAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID.
(With Diet-tables for all Complaints )
3.
MARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES.
" Ts be, or not to be, that is the plc stion."—ShaksPeare.
4.

The PASSIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL.
" CUL& Ilt -velem."
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CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE DOCKYARDS.
The following circular has just been issued to the
Admirals and Captains superintending her Majesty's
dockyards :
Sir,—l am directed by the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to inform you that they have felt them-
selves compelled to take the condition of the dockyards
under their most serious consideration.
The subject is 0.. e of great magnitude. Thetvote for
wages and salaries in her Majesty's establishments at
home and abroad, under Nos. 6,7, 8, and 9, has averaged
810,664/. during the last four years. It is a constantly
increasing vote. The vote for 1843-4 was 779,3861. The
vote for the current year is 951,8861. The vote for
stores (including steam machinery) for 1846-7, amounted
to 1,694,152/., and that for buildings and new works,
526,810/. The machinery already in existence in the
dock and victualling yards is i ncreasing annually in
value, and large additions must be made to it, as the
steam factories at Portsmouth, Keyham, and Malta, ad-
vance towards completion. No reduction in this branch
of the establishment is probable or possible, for the
steam factories must keep pace with the growth of the
steam navy, which again is determined by considerations
of national policy.
As yet provision has been made only for the ave-
rage annual repair of machinery of 20,000 horse-
power, out of a total of 40,000 horse-power; and every
succeeding Board of Admiralty has recognised the in-
convenience, bad economy, and peril in the event of
war, of allowing these repairs to be limited to the single
factory at Woolwich. But the greater the extension,
present and prospective, of the dockyards, and of the
steam factories in connexion with them, the greater
is the necessity of securing in them the most care-
ful and efficient management. Upon such an expendi-
ture, the smallest savings are important ; and in spite
of the improvements already engrafted upon the old
system, by the appointment of engineers to take
charge of the machinery in the yards, and to relieve
the Master-shipwright from duties which did not
come within the sphere of his ordinary avocations, in
spite of the large and useful changes connected with
the department of the Director of Works, which
have also relieved the yards from the maintenance of
the buildings, and the more recent improvements, to
which my Lords expect that the recommendations of the
committee of metals will give rise, by placing all matters
connected with copper and iron under a special superin-
tendence, and ensuring the early introduction into the
Government yards of the best modes of working adopted
in private establishments, still much is left to be done
before a satisfactory result can be arrived at.
In saying this, my Lords do not wish to imply that
they take an unfavourable view of these great national
establishments. They have much satisfaction in acknow-
ledging the good moral tone that prevails amongst the
artificers generally, and the excellent quality of the work
performed by them. On the other hand, they think
that there is abundant evidence to show that the
quantity of work done is below the standard of
well-conducted private establishments, and that there
is great room for improvement in the application
of both stores and labour. Their Lordships will not
entertain any general charges of indifference to ex-
pense on the part of the officers, or of inertness on
that of the men; and they are equally unwillng to
dwell upon representations made to them of the effect of
political feeling in some of the yards upon the course of
promotion, though they can conceive nothing more dan-
gerous to their discipline, if true, or more detrimental
to the public interest. They wish to look forward—not
to look back—their object being to introduce a system
that *ay inspire every man with the belief that his
conduct will be known and appreciated by his superiors,
and that however humble his position originally, his
future fate depends upon his own exertions.
Their Lordships see too much reason to apprehend
that such is not the present state of feeling in the dock-
yards ; but that the rise from shipwright to leading man,
and from leading man to inspector, is regarded rather as
a matter of accident or favour, than as a reward due to
merit, and to be dispensed upon plain and equitable
principles. They feel that wherever such an impression
prevails subordination must be weakened ; and they have
consequently resolved to lay down one fixed and intelli-
gible rule of promotion for all classes, as the best
foundation of that more vigilant and intelligent superin-
tendence which they regard as indispensable.
For the discipline of the yard, like the discipline of
the ship, depends upon the petty officers; and no exer-
tions of the admirals or captains superintendent, or of
the master shipwrights can compensate for the want of
a hearty co-operation on the part of the inspectors and
leading men, to whom the care of the separate gangs is
confided, and with whom it rests to enforce a proper
economy in the use of the stores and materials issued for
the work going on under their superintendence.
It is necessary, however, as the first step towards this
extended responsibility, to remove all just causes of
complaint amongst that class of officers from whose
exertions benefit is anticipated. My Lords have, there-
fore, duly considered the petitions presented by the in-
spectors of the different dockyards. They find by these
that with a salary of 1001. a year they are expected to
maintain the station and authority of officers ; that in
1833, when the pay of the inspector was fixed, the work-
men were only employed five days a week, whereas they
are now employed six days, for which the working man re-
ceives one-sixth more wages, but no additional allowance
has been made to the inspector. The men, too, have occa-
sionally the pt ivilege of working extra hours, when the
inspector is bound to be in attendance without any re-
muneration whatever, although the wages earned by the
men when upon task work are fully equal to his pay,
and the pay of the leading man exceeds it. The old
quartermen, whom the inspectors replaced, received
1801. a year, with a gang of twenty-five men and
boys under them. The inspectors, with only 100/. a
year, have forty men and boys to superintend, for all
whom they demand the stores and materials required
for their daily labour. Their pensions, too, are regu-
lated by the scale of 40ths, not of 12ths, like those of
other salaried officers in the Customs, Excise, and Ord-
nance, by which they are considerable losers. Indeed, a
leading man of long standing often refuses to be made
an inspector, because his superannuation would be les-
sened by his promotion; from a similar cause, the men
who would be best qualified to undertake the duty (the
head draftsmen in the mould loft) decline it because
their pay being 7s. a day they would necessarily lose by
the transfer.
The superintendents of the dockyards, and the master
shipwrights, have equally without one exception re-
corded their opinion that justice and economy would be
consulted by increasing the pay of the inspectors ; and
the late Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Corry, in a
minute dated the 9th of July, expressed his unqualified
concurrence in this view, and recommended that the
salary of inspectors should be raised to 125/. a year,
being half the amount given to the officers next to
them in rank—the foreman of the yard. Taking
the number of inspectors at 108, whose annual
pay amounts to 10,8001., this might be accomplished
at a cost of 2,7001. But my Lords are unwilling to incur
any additional charge, unless as a part of an improved
system, and with that improved system they believe it
would be wise to be more liberal, and to provide a class
of inspectors at 150/. a year, as an intermediate step be-
tween the inspectors at 125/. and the foreman at 2501.,
in order that promotion may not be too long delayed,
and that prompt reward may stimulate to constant ex-
ertion. They have, therefore, been pleased to sanc-
tion the following regulations, with the double
view of introducing that fixed and intelligible
principle of promotion amongst the men, and that more
vigilant and intelligent superintendence, which they
think essential to the proper administration of the dock-
yards, and they do this under the belief that in so large
and complicated a system it is only by an improved tone
of feeling amongst all classes, and by teaching indivi-
duals to see that their own advancement depends upon a
scrupulous discharge of their duty to the public, that a
substitute can be found for that personal and pecuniary
interest which is the mainspring of exertion in private
establishments.
ADMISSIONS TO YARDS.—NEW lISOULATIONS FOR ADMIS-
SION AND PROMOTION IN HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS.
Apprentices.—lt is the intention of their Lordships to
leave the admissions to the yard very nearly upon their
present footing, taking in a certain number of appren-
tices annually, whose names are to be entered by board
order upon the superintendent's list on the recommenda-
tion of the yard officers, allowing the apprentices out of
their time, whose conduct has been satisfactory, to fill
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able to read and write well, or who has not some know-
ledge of arithmetic.
My Lords reserve to themselves the right of directing
the children of persons out of the yard, whom they may
deem entitled to this privilege, to be entered upon the
list from which the apprentices are to be selected; but
in all cases they will require the same educational test
as a preparation for the advantages provided by the
dockyard schools for the more intelligent of the boys ad-
mitted to them.
The list of apprentices is to be made out by the super-
intendent, the master shipwright, and his assistants, in
the month of January in every year, and they are to
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