The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-23 00:00:00

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.
Froprietor........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise; the most popular werks of
this gnat Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
In consequence of the Funeral of her Royal Hizhnesis the
Duchess of Kent, the above establishment will be CLOSED
on MONDAY next, the 25th inst.

TH E OXFOR D,
No. 6, OXFORD-STREET.
Madame Parepa, Miss Russell. Madame Marietta, and Miss
Poole ; Mr. Swift, Mr. George Genc:e, Mr. Charles Greville,
and Mr. Santley ; Miss Rosina Collins (the celebrated Vio-
liniste), and Mr. Levy, in addition to a host of talent, will
appear at
THE GRAND INAUGURATION CONCERT
On TUESDAY NEXT, March 26.
THE OXFORD, 6, Oxford-streeet.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 17m.—Afternoon, 11h. 54m,
To-monßow.-Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 27m

THE WEATHER.-SUN Orvic-n, MARCH 23, 1861.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM
51—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
54—this day at noon.

BAROMETER--29.89.
WlND—South-Westerly—moderate; with fair weather,

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1861.

We shall not yet despair of having Admiral Sir
BALDWIN WALKER brought back and confronted
with the Select Committee of Inquiry into the
Admiralty Department, with a view to its recon-
struction. For here at last actually, in the very
nick of time, upon the eve of the Easter vacation,
comes forth in its entirety and integrity the long-
talked of, long-wished-for and almost despaired-of
and abandoned report of the Royal commis-
sioners appointed to examine into the whole
machinery and organization of her MAJESTY'S
Dockyards, into the whole complex system of
their control and management.

Glancing, however superficially, down this care-
fully elaborated report, it is next to impossible
not to recognise upon the instant the laborious and
conscientious manner in which the inquiry has been
conducted from first to last by the Royal Conimis-
sioners. Supplemented to the well deliberated
report itself, is the entire body of the minutes of
evidence. Sir BALDWIN'S evidence standing forth
there amongst the rest conspicuously ! From these
minutes of evidence it will be perceived by those
who turn over the pages of this important and his-
torical blue-book, how scrupulously witness after
witness has been subjected to a searching exa-
mination and cross-examination. It is worthy
of note, also, that prior to the subscription of the
three authoritative signatures affixed to the Report
—the autographs of the Earl of GIFFORD, of Mr.
R. DALGLTSH, and of Sir H. WILLOUGHBY—every
one of her MAJESTY'S Dockyards in tarn has been (by
them) visited and minutely inspected. The conclusion
arrived at by the Commissioners being decisive as
to the fact—a fact tolerably notorious by this time,
and so far scarcely needing, one might think, the
formal and official announcement of it—that there
is great inefficiency observable in her MAJESTY'S
Dockyards in the whole system of their control and
management. The nation knew this of course per-
fectly well long since—only too well in reality.
However, here is the familiar truth distinctly as-
serted at last as a flagrant grievance requiring
immediate dissipation, here it is at length
distinctly advezted to in a substantial blue-book,
as the result of the profound and lengthened deli-
berations of a cluster of Royal Commissioners.
The conclusion thus arrived at by the Commissioners
is justified as a reasonable conclusion enough, it is
indeed demonstrated to be an inevitable conclusion,
by the minutes of evidence and the formidable
array of "proofs positive" thereby elicited and
therein catalogued. The Commissioners having, at
the very outset of their Report, avowed, point-
blank, the deplorable reality that there is,
beyond all doubt, an enormous amount of
inefficiency observable throughout the whole
system of control and management in vogue here-
tofore at her MAJESTY'S Dockyards—next indicate
the causes of this inefficiency—following up the
enumeration of these principal causes by a series
of important suggestions offered by them, with the
express view of rendering henceforth (supposing
their suggestions to be thought well of by the
Legislature, and to be incorporated in an act of
parliament), with the express view of rendering
more efficient both the control and the management !
First of all, let us glance, therefore, at the causes of
the present inefficiency as they are here enumerated
by the Royal Commissioners. And then let us
take into account some at least among the more
remarkable of the score of hints thrown
out by the e Commaioners in their report,
with a view, not
only to the reform of
the Dockyard management, but of the reorga-
nisation, in fact the total reconstruction of the
entire machinery of the naval department. •

The insufficiency of the old
ay stem then, the
present system of control and management at her
the Commissioners trace in
MAJESTY'6 Duckyarclo,
their report to four principal sources: first of all,
to the constitution of the Admiralty Board itself--
secondly, to the defeetive:orglnisation of the various
subordinate departments—third to the total and
absolute want of anything at all bearing the re-
semblance of a clear and well defined responsibility