Nautical Standard (Newspaper) - July 10, 1847, London, Middlesex AND STEAM NAVIGATION Vol. 26.] July 10, 1847. 6d. Editorial Jurisprudence 405. New School of Naval 405 Naval Architecture 406 H. M. late 406 Classification of ships of the Royal Navy Thames Conservancy The War 408 the of Art in Westminster Hall 408 Anniversaries of Naval 409 of London Yatch 411 Institution of Civil The French 411 Correspondence late of Ships of the Royal Navy 141 Admiralty Marine Admiral Sit Edward Service Intelligence Court-Martial on Lieutenant 414 Royal Naval Benevolent Naval Prize England's Defiance Majesty's Contract Mail Packet 417 Royal Mail Steam Packet 417 Latest enc 418 HEK MA J TH E AT and the are respectfully that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY 15, 1847, on which occasion JENNY LIND will appear in one of her favourite The entertainments in the Ballet will comprise the talents of C. Carolini Petit and M. and M. 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NAVAL In all our many comments upon Naval we have ever stated it as our that if the Admiralty will not look to the laws which govern and men in the Country will he and prove a very troublesome The in an article upon the Lily Courts does Hot scruple to remark Neither the principles the formula of trial are satisfactory the of either that of not permits punishment an -aria the I fails j We cannot agree with the Times in all The Army is not discontented with its law of Court than which there cannot be a more equitable consistent with proper and though we should like to see Junior Officers members of the Naval as in the we deny even as this Court is now it permits the degradation of a worthy and the punishment of an innocent or that it affords a most dangerous facility for the gratification of petty the practice of a petulant and the exercise of a despotic The Times might as well bring the like charges against any civil or criminal court in England is the abuse of the power of the and not the constitution of the except that like the best of institutions it is liable to that produces all the evils complained of. Lieutenant Beanch has been the court has done its duty and we hope that the Admiralty will promote The Master of the Lily was found according to and in: justice has been dismissed the The court is not to blame We sincerely feel for but he had slept his matters not how sick or how weary he might have should have reported himself and he would have been relieved from the We with the that an officer charged with drunkenness when he was not by a commander who is proved to bring frivolous and vexatious charges against his should be favourably considered by the Admiralty and we think this disproval should be considered in some degree as a setoff against even the graver offence of which he has been found the Court could only determine upon the evidence before the It is ever the practice of non-professional papers to complain of an evil in the Service without suggesting a There cannot be a better mode of checking the practice of Commanding Officers bringing and vexatious than the application to the Naval law of a provision one which may be found in the Army Mutiny Act. This provides that if an inferior or man shall think himself wronged by his superior a court-martial shall enquire into it and do him but should the complaint appear vexatious and then the complainant shall he punished at discretion of the said What can be fairer than this as applied to frivolous vexatious charges brought by commanding officers or by any class of officers or men Charges not proved may of course and those who haye brought such charges not be to but and necessarily the punishment of the Then such and Jhe tion adaptation of so wholesome a THE NEW SCHOOL OF NAVAL We have been favoured with the perusal of a treatise upon this printed for private a summary of which we hasten to communicate to our We offer no opinion upon the merits of the or upon a system which has been latterly too highly either to be prejudiced by our or benefitted by our favourable The writer thus expresses - There can be no doubt that all attempts to place the fetters of mathematical science upon the free tions of intuitive from the building of Noah's proved vain and Where is the with his tangents means and appliances of mathematical lumber to would stake his buoyant capabilities against the intuitive genius of the or would not place more reliance upon the floating powers of a pair of inflated than all the accumulated learning of a synod of mathematicians P Who would busy himself in calculating the hour of the day by the altitude of the while the parish clock stares him in the face Does not every without the ancient learning of a or the more modern hieroglyphics of a know that a on being thrown into the will either sink or are the only two conditions or the other is inevitable -is mathematical science subordinate to this or is it paramount to nature When we see the elaborate calculations of the pseudo whose professed object is the discovery of the displacement of a ship by its how are we to restrain our laughter What is more palpable than the fact be some degree of if the ship will not carry all that you rest satisfied with what she This principle has been most beautifully carried out by the Lords of the Admiralty in a great number of andf in none more ingeniously than in the case of the This ship was built to carry 800 tons cf in carry only 350 What was the course adopted by her talented whose admirers and friends never suspected his intuitive talents to be tainted or perverted by any undue of the mathematical sciences we ask what did this whose science lias never been he placed 350 tons in and she carried or even could not have done how much do we hear about the insuring the hydrostatic the computations of the meta the centre of gravity of &c. an idle farrago of What is meant by the stability of a ship we believe it is said to be that property by which a floating preserves a vertical every body Without the aid of of Navali that some stand the fact is all we tile of the says
