New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-07

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zion One GREAT broad fact stands out in foil
uakedness. admitted BY all the witnesses OF eY-
erv chs, and caste, and strongly set forth in ev-
erv line Of the repoTt-that the boosted system
of Great Britain is an absolute failure, a mock
"ery. delusiOn and snare" This system
has been another Sab ne virgin, on which every
witness as he passed threw the bucker OF ais
sins. Indeed, though it may have had to bear
more burdens than belonged to it, there can be
nc question that the system was far more at
fault than the men.
The late Minister at War the Duke OF New
castle, upon whom hitherto has been thrown 'no
largest load Of guilt, had 1t spPesrs from inc re-
port, no duty marked out, no Precedenst9d''ec''
no adeonate means TO conduct, not even LOT
q copsiderablt time, on Office in which to trans
net the busiDess. The late Secretary at War,
MFR He, bert. had no pc xer to orig nate anything
himself and yet no one to originate for him. at
the Ordnance, upon whose efficient WORKING
much Of tie success Of the war depended, four
or FIVE rival chiefs were engaged in personal
squabbles and working in harmony only where
any one Of the number was TO BE- impefe1 10
any particular act. Amid this confusion, where
each official delinquent when driven to Partic-
ular point Immediately escaped among crowd
Of colleagues, the report found it impossible to
fix any individual, or TO decide which Depart
ment was to blame for the non. arrival Of sup
plies at their destination, for the non. distrlbu-
ton Of them when they did arrive, for the want
Of warehouse room at Balaklaya for the want
Of food, clothes, medicines-for that want in fact
Of everything which reflected such disgrace and
dishonOr on British administration. That
the evils were there in all their hlfeOus-
ness and deformity, is Enthusiastically admitted
and proved by the Report. How or
whence they came it doth not say.
The greatest source of evil appears, however,
10 the Committee to reside in that system of
Boards by which all the departments of G9v-
eminent in England are managed, and which,
by employing four or five men, all On an equal
footing, to transact one piece of business,
woakens all sense Of indiyi iual responsibility
and places it at any moment in the hands of any
one individual to bring the action of the whole
Board to stand. Bentham, with shrewd sar-
casm. once remarked that /" Boards are only ft
q" for fcreens" And in England every Depart
rnent has it's screen. The customs are con-
Quoted by a Board Of Customs" The taxes
are conducted by ga Board of Iuland Revenue"
they are audited by another Board, I" the Audit
Board" The Navy is conducted by Board,
1.-THE Lords OF the Admiralty" The Treasury
by Board, "the Lords Of the Treasury" The
War, until recently, by Board consisting of
the COMMANDMENT Chief, the Secretary for the
ri - af- War and A IN
Board begetting Board until the end of the
chapter. We fancy, however, the race OF
Boards is run. The real difficulty was the want
of man of strong brain and iron hand, man like
Cromwell or like Jackson, who instead OF wildly
running from knot &c snOt and belplessly striy-
ing to unweave the ENHANCEMENT, would boldly
cut the web The hour needed such a man and
did not find him among the governing classes of
England
From this cursory review our re aders may be
able to gather the substance of very yolumln-
Gus report, coucbed in feeble phrase, sliding
lightly over all diseased points, and suggesting
no remedy. 1t appears, however, that while
This was the report of the majority, there was
another report of far different character,
which it superseded, prepared with great labor
and unfalteIing Justice by minority consisting
of Messrs ROebuck aud Layard. Nothing
daunted by the adverse decision of the Commit
tee Mr.. Roebuck has given terse and bitter
compression to the minority report in motion
of censure on all the members OF the late Abb
erdeen administration. to whose incapacity aud
inefficient administration he attributes those
disasters which have brought such discredit on
The British pane. This censuTe includes the
present Premier ard a majority of his Cabinet
by whom, as by the Peelite section, it will be
vigorously resisted On the other hand it is so
framed as to necessitate the support of the
party of Lord Derby. Should both parties,
thus arrayed, answer truly to the whip, they
will be as nearly as possible equally matched in
point of numbers, being about 2j0 each, and the
de cision will rest in the hands of a few inde-
pendent members like Mr.. Golden and Mr..
Bright, and few floating unattached ind-
yidualities.
Doubtless this is the most dangerous motion
Lord Pslmerston has yet had to meet. The
strokes Of Roebuck have always been sngularly
well timed. Like the petrol he has always de-
lighted in a storm, and his appearance above the
waters has ever been the signal of perplexed
and angry squalls Should this motion, like
those by Mr.. Roebuck which have preceded it,
prove successful, the unfortunate British Con-
sttuton will have to go through trial severer
than any il has yet undergone. Still we inchne