The Control Department of the Army has at lest been
constituted by Royal Warrant. The meaning of that is that the separate and jarring departments of Transport, Works, Pay, and Commissariat have been consolidated into one office, under a Controller immediately responsible to the Secretary at War, and therefore, we presume, to the Commander-in-Chief. TheCivil Service of the Army is, in fact, embodied into a hierarchy as regular as the Military one, forming, in fact, a Staff Corps;. the members of which will, we hope, be liable to be shot for any egregious failure in their duties. The immediate result will be a saving in expense and time, and a great increase of efficiency, and the ultimate result will be to make the control of the whole Army by a Minister of War far easier. It is still possible, however, for the two ultimate authorities, the Horse Guards and the War Office, to jar, and the final reduction of both under the House of Commons is still postponed.
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