The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-02 00:00:00

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LO :DON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1870.

THERE is very little comfort in the article which
Mr. REED has contributed to the November number
of Macmillan's Magazine. It is true, he tells us,
that the loss of the Captain was duo to causes which
were preventible, and which he himself had foreseen,
yet lie could not, though holding an official position,
save England from the costly blunder which he
knew that ship to be, and from the terrible
fate which ho saw might overtake her
crew. This being so, what chance is there
that he will be able to guard the country against the
repetition of the blunder now that he is out of office?
It may be said that the Admiralty, having had
practical proof of the correctness of Mr. REED'S fore-
bodings, will not fall into the same error a second
time. He is by no means sure of that. He says :
" It the Government is misleadable there are unhappily
plenty to mislead it. That limited class of naval
officers who may almost be counted upon the fingers,
but who are active and influential out of all proportion
to thou' numbers and professional knowledge, have
already been at their dire work in the columns of
the newspapers and elsewhere." After exposing their
fallacies, he goes on to say : "It is much to be ap-
prehended that some of the more industrious of these
gentlemen will ere long be found acting together in
favour of some one of the many dangerous forms of
the turret-ship which still offer themselves for selec-
tion, and bring the same insensate pressure to bear
upon the Government, through Parliament and the
Press, as has proved so disastrous in the present
case, the great bulk of the naval service
preserving the dignified silence which characterises
all but the blatant few." Another danger is pointed
out in the words, " One thing is perfectly certain,
viz., that good political administration will not sup-
ply the place of scientific skill in the Admiralty
Offices." The plain English of all this is that Mr.
REED has no faith in Mr. CHILDERS'S practical
knowledge of shipbuilding, and believes that
he will only too probably yield to the pressure
which is being brought to bear unen
him by amateurs, and by officers who
like Admiral FISHBOURNE, end a long letter in the
Times abounding with figures, by the I..vc-aal
have written off-hand, and without any books of

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reference, and without having given more than a
casual thought on the subject for years." One
" casual thought" in the course of an indefinite
number of years, is scarcely a qualification for the
post of adviser to the Admiralty on matters involving
the life and death of thousands. What the nation
wants is a thorough sifting of the whole subject, a
deliberate and responsible weighing by an unpreju-
diced Royal Commission of all the evidence that can
be obtained.

The difficulty would be sufficiently great if it could be
overcome once for all. But the problem which has to
be solved is incessantly changing. The best ship of to-
day may be inadequate to-morrow. Fresh conditions
are ever arising, because invention has of late years
been strongly directed towards military objects. But
a Royal Commission would at least ascertain with
sufficient accuracy the principles that should govern
our naval architects, and save them from a repetition
of the catastrophe of September 7. At the present
time we require a vessel that shall possess a powerful
bow-fire, and shall be able to resist the assault of
rams and the explosion of torpedoes. Such a vessel
ought also to be armed with a projectile which would
penetrate an enemy below water. And when we
have secured our ships and armament, we shall still
want a crew perfectly drilled. At present our sea-
men are greatly deficient in this respect. As Mr.
REED says, " When a signal is made for the ships to
steam at full speed, after due preparation, no one
knows whether one of the slower ships of the squad-
ron will not steam away ahead of all the others,
and the fastest lag behind, using the words
slow and fast as indicative of the com-
parative performances of the ships when
working at their best." The necessary knowledge is
to be attained in some measure by service in the
Flying Squadron. Another step in the right direc-
tion is about to be taken by the Board of Admiralty.
It is intended to improve the scientific education of
naval cadets and naval officers, and for that purpose
to make use of the valuable aid of Dr. WOOLLEY,
the Director of Education to the Admiralty. In
matters of this sort there is no want of energy
on Mr. CHILDERS'S part. He is not wedded
to old systems. The keenness with which
he supported Captain COLES is an indication of his
readiness to adopt any new design which he thinks
will be for the benefit of the service. Unfortunately,
a knowledge of ship building is not innate. If the
poet is born and not made, the same thing cannot be
said of the naval architect. The present First Lord
of the Admiralty will bat be exercising common
prudence if he relieves himself of some of his present
heavy weight of responsibility. He himself has
suffered by the late catastrophe. This should make
him the more careful to spare others from a like
sorrow.

NEW YORK has published its counterblast to Paris
and Tours. Paris has raised a regiment of Amazons;
Tours has started a nineteenth ceutury JEANNE
D'Anc. New York has revealed a JULIA WARD
HowE. Here on this side of the Atlantic women
are banding themselves to expel the foreigner "who
fouls the sacred soil of France ;" there on the other
side women have gathered together and determined
that there shall be no more war. " Guerre ala
guerre," said GARIBALDI at Geneva just
before he started with his army of red-shirts against
Rome. " War against war," say the ladies of New
York, as with better logic they elect for their chair-
woman JULIA WARD HOWE. The European Con-
gress of Peace has not been held this year ; unavoid-
able circumstances prevented. The circumstances
which compelled the chief performer in the Ammer-
gau Miracle play to descend from the cross and to
shoulder the rifle, have hindered the Evangelical
Conference of all nations from assembling
in the Western hemisphere, and the International
Peace Congress from meeting in the Eastern. The
usual spokesmen have had other work to do than to
propose and second resolutions. GARIBALDI, that
man of peace, has once more taken the field. Vic ron
Huao, prince of declaimers against war, holds other
language to-day, and his words are swords. Resolu-
tions have given place to revolutions ; loud cheers to
the cries of the wounded; the clapping of hand to
the thunder of artillery. But there is another
and a better world; to wit—the United States
of America. There the boom of the gun is no more
heard; there the slaughter of battalions is no longer
seen. The dead who lie in the cemeteries have nos
again had their rest disturbed by the carnage going
on above them. America has been at peace since the
defeat of Gettysberg, and its resulting capitulation
of Appomatox. The Potomac and the Mis-
sissippi are ploughed only by peacelul
traders. The Hudson is witness to no
other rivalries than the harmless competition of
yachts. Happy are the people that are in such a
case. Kind, too, as well as happy for they seek to
extend their privileges to us. They propose to us a
" World's Peace Congress." It is to be held either
at London, with the view of teaching the gospel of
peace to belligerent stockbrokers, or at Brussels, in
order to tame the fire-eating Belgians, unless indeed
we should all prefer to meet at New York and con-
gratulate the meekest and most pacific nation
throughout the globe.
It is to be not only a congress, but a congress of
women. Why not ? Novel-readers and play-goers
are accustomed to the sudden appearance of JULIA
WARD HOWES just as two duellists are preparing to
fight until one of them is slain. Why should the
intervention that is thought so fitting in fiction and
on the stage, not be equally appropriate in the duels
of nations ? Women owe the other sex a debt which
has been outstanding the best part of three thou-
sand years. It is time that HELEN'S sisters settled
the heavy item of the " ten years' war in Troy."
In truth, there are other debts. The page of his-
tory is full of them; for all experience tells us that
when women once so far forget their sex as to
become belligerents they are the cruellest of foes.
They were so during the first French Revolution ; they
are likely to be so now if the Franco-German conflict
should be prolonged. It is terrible work when
women once get infected with the war fever.
Far better that they should inoculate men
with the love of peace. If JULIA WARD HOWE can
do this by her orations we shall welcome her in
London, even though she should inflict upon us
another "congress," in addition to the congresses of
sociologists, savans, and sects which overwhelm us
in increasing numbers every "Fall."

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

PUNISHMENT OF PEACE BREAKERS.

A. very strange notion appears in the North,
German Correspondent, which is a little sheet, well
known to enjoy semi-official relations with the
Pruzzian Government. It says that as the authors
of a war, and not their tools and subordinates, ought
in justice to be made responsible for their acts, the
idea has been suggested in Government circles "of
stipulating as a condition of peace between
France and Germany that the intellectual
originators and instigators of the present
war shall not escape with impunity." These
originators and instigators are to be tried by a jury
of citizens of neutral States, if these agree with the
plan, and, if not, the jurymen might be taken from
the two belligerent nations. The jury would decide
both the verdict and the penalty. The persons
brought to this new tribunal would include not only
the exmutive which planned the invasion' of Ger-
many, but the statesmen, orators, and journalists who