Mr. Cardwell on Monday obtained leave to bring in a
Bill creat- ing a "Clerk of the Ordnance," with supreme power over that department, and a "Financial Secretary of the War Department," both of them to be Parliamentary appointments. The object of the measure is to increase the direct control of the Houses over the Army, and relieve the Secretary for War of an intolerable burden of toil and responsibility. Mr. Cardwell took occasion to reamed in the strongest manner that there was no dual govern- ment of the Army, that the Patent found among Sir G. C. Lewis's papers had never been acted on or seen by the Com- mander-in-Chief, and that the absolute supremacy of the War Office -was acknowledged,iby the Duke of Cambridge. This is satisfactory enough, and it- is vain to expect that Government can altentenure, establish edacation,:aud, reform- the Army all in one year.
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