Nautical Standard (Newspaper) - January 30, 1847, London, Middlesex ' u 1**'.- V ' NOTICE TO The Nautical and Steam Navigation may be had at No. 5, Catherine The not allowing London newspapers to be delivered free of expense within three miles of the chief one penny for beg - to all future annual so that one penny will be charged upon their which will be forwarded through the desirous of receiving the Nautical Standard are respectfully that it is forwarded by the morning mails and the earliest posts to all parts of the on payment of 6s. 6d. per 13s. half a and 6s. a or one if paid in Post Office orders are to be made payable to ( Mr. Thomas divided into two neither of them being in our opinion prepared on a correct we owe it to our readers to give our own explanation of the actual state of the public as exhibited in the balance sheet we have compiled from the details of the official From this balance sheet it appears that we were better in actual cash in at the close of the year 1846, by than we were at the opening of the and this result is after applying a portion of our income to the liquidation of our the funded debt being reduced to the extent of and the unfunded debt The sum of has also been advanced out of the income for the on for public and is repayable the public account at some future These added make or the are on as who on the Home will without further have their papers punctually forwarded to them from this their address being by the information columns of the Nautical as to at home and are again unavoidably compelled to has obliged us in forwarding the Lightning It shall appear next if Nautical can be sent direct from the Office to any station at home or if the address be forwarded with the necessary postage stamps for the paper and A order directly to the it It is not the first complaint we of of Newsmen to forward 7 A Friend and is thanked for his We make no charge for the insertion of Mar duly The services of officers on their decease will always have if forwarded in proper Steam Navigation and next STEAM NAVIGATION JANUARY 30, 1847. THE BALANCE SHEET OF THE Iu another part of our paper we have been at some pains to reduce into a clear and comprehensive rule the figures in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer according to established complicated the Balance Sheet of the Country's Income and for the year ending 5th 1847. As bur statement differs from the Official Return laid before the House of which is e public account for the divested of all official ' The account presented to Parliament may be perfectly understood by officials and the initiated in official yet as the out of are unacquainted with such should not plain language and arrangement make that which concerns intelligible to Our objection to the official accounts of Income and Expenditure is founded on the substitution of a fictitious for a real and on the omission of large sums of such as the outlay for the redemption of the and the large advances for our poor the repayment of after Lord John recent appears more than we think the account would be all the clearer if confined to a statement of the means adopted for raising the wind without into it direct expenditure defrayed out of the public income of the For these reasons we have tried our hand at compiling an account from the official which we confidently anticipate will be understood by any ordinary man of and we are fully prepared to explain the Navy Estimates and other Naval on the same principle of making clear that which has been left obscure in the mean time if the Chancellor op the Exchequer desires to make his future accounts more intelligible to he may this day consult the columns of the Nautical Standard with NAVAL We regret much that the recent Court Martial at for the trial of and Mri the of that again painfully our attention to the constitution of Courts Martial in the Koyal i We lately expressed our opinion that many J and even gross perversions of justice were consequent on the present state of Naval and we cannot have a better example of the evil of its so far as trial by Naval Court Martial is than in the case we now refer Though we have the highest respect for the * oers who formed the Court assembled on board the 1 St. at we do not think that it is in the power of Naval or Military or men in Civil so entirely to divest their minds of the if prejudices of any class dr position in society which peculiarly their as not to have a favourable towards one of We convinced that Captain and that had there * v * ' been the only one would have The was in command of on giving his own at the time the accident but supposing for the sake of that both officers deserved to be how is it that Captain who was found guilty on tioo needs not an appeal to former character to temper the judgment of the while the luckless without a of except upon one is only as it would because an sustained during an unwearying service for nearly twenty respected by hig senior and beloved by his would not allow even that stern Court of Captains to dismiss him from the the only excuse the Court could have had for thus making the chief blame fall upon the Master that it being thought necessary for one or other of the prisoners to have as narrow an escape as the Mr. Jago was chosen for that as having a character which would save him from severe Another case of Court Martial is mentioned in our paper of by which Captain Stopford has been tried for alleged severity to his There cannot be a doubt that the gallant members of the Court have done their duty according to the Naval but we contend that it would have been more satisfactory if who are brought in nearer contact with the men than Commanding bail sat upon that It would have or have satisfactory even to Captain if he could have waived the right of f who might be supposed prejudiced of the position common again we let Courts Martial generally on board ship be Is not