§ SIR BENJAMIN HALLI said yesterday I would give to-day the terms of 803 the notice of Motion which I intend to submit to the House on Tuesday, the 19th of April, in reference to the dockyard appointments. I now beg to give notice that on that day I shall call the attention of the House to the contents of three Parliamentary papers—Nos. 67,271, and 272—of the present Session, entitled "Dockyards"—"Dockyard Appointments" and "Dockyard Promotions;" and I shall move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the circumstances under which a Circular, sent to the Superintendents of Her Majesty's Dockyards, dated the 26th September, 1849, was cancelled on the 19th of April, 1852, without an order or minute of the Board of Admiralty; and also to inquire into the circumstances under which a letter was written by Sir Baldwin Walker to Mr. Stafford, the Secretary of the Admiralty, in which letter he rendered his resignation, and why that letter was withheld from the Board; and also to inquire into the circumstances attending the appointment of Mr. James Wells as master smith in the dockyard of Portsmouth, and the subsequent cancelling thereof, and the appointment of Mr. George Costel in his stead; and to inquire generally respecting the exercise of the influence and patronage of the Admiralty in the several Parliamentary boroughs connected with the dockyards, since the 19th of April, 1852, at which date a Circular from the Admiralty was signed and issued, cancelling "their Lordships' order of the 26th of September, 1849," which directed "that all reports and correspondence on the subject of promotions, appointments, or changes in the dockyards, shall be forwarded to the Surveyor's department," in order that in future such reports and correspondence shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Admiralty.