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London, England, 1851-08-20 00:00:00

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OFFICIAL VISIT OF TIIE ADMIRALTY.

DEVONPORT, MOND-IL—A Board of Admiralty,
consisting of Sir Francis T. Baring (First Lord),
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, Captain Alexander
Milne, and the Hon. W. Cowper, together with Cap.
tam W. A. B. Hamilton' second secretary to the
board, and Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, surveyor of
the navy, arrived about eight o'clock this morning-in
the Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht. The hoard left
Portsmouth an Friday for Portland, where they in-
spected the breakwater, leaving the following morn-
ing for Dartmouth, which they reached on Saturday
evening, re;-naining in the harbour during the whole
of Sundny, and un!ii four o'clock this morning, whoa
they left, for ti-is port, reaching Ow Sound as above
stated.

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e regret to find that, while at D Irtmouth, Ad-
miral Dundcs and Captain Milne were bath taken ill, -
and were obliged to have recourse to n‘edical
On reaching this port, the gallant admiral Wes ho.t"
ficiently recovered to Le able to join his collea,Kues is
their official duties ; but Captain Milne was to 11l to
leave the yacht, and medical assistance was him, till..
ately procured.
At ten o'clock the board, with the exception cl
Captain Milne, landed at the dockyard, where they
Were joined by Captaid Eden, private secretary to the
First Lord, and Colonel 'Gran, director of works,
who arrived at Moorshead's Hotelon Sunday evening-,
having come from Portsmouth by railway. The
whole party were received by J. E. Miles, Esq.,
master attendant and acting superintendent; George
Turner, Esq., master shipwright ; William Baldock,
Esq., storekeeper ; Charles Atherton, Esq , chief en-
gineer
; Lieutenant Colonel Williams, officer of Royal
Engineers in charge of works, and other principal
officers of the dockyard ; Captain Superintendent
nob, Royal William Victualling-yard ; Captaiu
Nitta, St. George ; Captain Lowe, Impregnable
and a retinue of naval officers of all grades. Theis
Lordships first proceeded to the commodore's
office, and having attended to some official
business went thence through the ropery,
along the new ground to the building-slips, minutely
inspecting the Narcissus, 50, Phcebe, 50, Exmouth,
90, and Algiers, 90, which are in different stages
of advancement. The attention of their
Lordships
having been called to the progress making in the
extension of the shed over the slip in which the keel
of the St. Jean d'Acre, 100 guns, screw steam-ship,
has been laid down, they proceeded on to the chain
cable stores, and thence to the general stores—pass-
ing through every compartment, and making the most
searching inquiries into everything having reference
to the quantity and condition of the stores. In this
Lordships were a few days previously antici-
pated by the Earl of Hardwicke, whose tact for re-
presentation of the state of stores has on other occa-
sions obtained no little notoriety. The knowledge of
the Noble Earl's visit possibly led to more than the
usual strictness of inquiry.
At one o'clock their Lordships left the yard, pro•
ceeding to Moorshead's Hotel, returning to the yard
at two o'clock, when the First Lord, Captain Hamil-
ton, Captain Eden, Sit; Baldwin Walker, Colonel
Green, accompanied by Mr. Miles, Mr. Atherton, and
Lieut.-Colonel Williams, embarked in the Commo-
dore's barge, and proceeded to the new works at
Keyham, landing at the new stairs at the river wall ;
they proceeded to inspect the caissoon now in cours•
of formation for the communication between the two
basins ; thence to the north and middle docks, now
completed, and the south dock in course of excavation.
Passing by the south boundary wall their Lordships
visited the permanent engine-house, and proceeding
thence to the entrance lock, where they inspected the
operation of dredging, after which they left the yard,
and passed through Morrice Town to the hotel.
This is understood to be only a preparatory visit of the
board to these important national works, the pro-
ceeding with which has been deprived of all energy
in obedience to the wishes of the false economists in
the Commons. There is little doubt that the private
yards are realising immense fortunes at the expense of
the country, while these and other similar works are
at a standstill, and the fortunate individuals receiving
golden public favours may well rejoice at the success
of a cry which blinds a party in the Legislature to
the real facts of the case which they appear to advo-
cate. Great attention is paid to direct grants of
money for public works, while but little notice is di-
rected to the fact that, Government not having the
power to manufacture for itself, influential parties and
reaping the sweets of " large public contracts" at the
cost of the nation.