The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-06 00:00:00

NAVAL EFFICIENCY AND NAVAL
ECONOMY.

The Naval Appropriation Bill has at at length been
passed by the House. The most noticeable feature about
the debate which ensued on several of its amendments,
was an obvious determination on the part of members to
cut down expenditures .which did not confer increased
efficiency, and to sanction appropriations which did. It
is quite obvious that to attract the proper class of men
into the upper grades of the profession, its scale of nemu-
neration must bear a reasonable proportion to the time and
talent which the service demands, as well as to the re-
wards they would be likely to receive in other careers.
There is an unmistakeable and unanimous desire among
all ranks of people to keep down expenditures, but the
popular intelligence will not be deluded by a short-sighted
economy which would nitimately cripple the ener-
gies and lower the status of a noble service,
It is quite certain, on the other hand, that
Mr. Dawes pretty faithfully repreents the current of
public feeling in contending as he did for diminished ex-
penditures in our navy-yards. It is impossible to explain
away the fact that a dollar will go nearly as far in a pr?' •
vate yard as two dollars will under Government supervi-
sion. Every one admits the necessity of a country pos-
sessing so vast a seaboard maintaining a few dockyards
for purposes of refitting and occasional construction ; but
it is plain that the Government would sacrifice neither
dignity nor efficiency, and would certainly effect a great
saving of money, by putting up its ship-building to private
competition. We make no pretence of keeping any branch
of our united service on such a footing as to be always
prepared for . war, and it has yet to be shewn that
a lavish expenditure on our arsenals will com-
pensate for a lack of other resources in time
of need. There is one point, and perhaps onlY,
one, in which we might profitably imitate the example 01
European States in our naval organisation—and that is the
formation of naval reserves. We point with just pride to
our thousands of citizen soldiers, who, without interrup-
tion to a career of peaceful industry, are trained to the
use of arms and disciplined for service in the field. We
have no counterpart to this among the sailors of our
trading ships ; but depressed as our mercantile marine is
at the moment, it can still furnish a large enough propor-
tion of volunteers, who would willingly undergo the
training required for manning our ships of war when such
a necessity arose. Our consistent policy has been to
maintain permanently as few fighting men as is consistent
with safety, and to place the defence of the nation as com-
pletely as possible in its own hands. The formation of
naval reserve among our native sailors would be a very
wise extension of the Republican policy of purely defen-
sive armoments.—New York Times.

Some days ago a terrible fire broke out in the
beautiful village of Bodegspaven, situated on the Rhine,
near Gouda, in the province of South Holland. About
120 houses, the town hall, and the churches were burned.
The whole village is on heap of rubbish. The devastation
is very considerable.
AN ENEMY TO EVASION.—The Recorder of Liver-
pool has delivered a judgment upon a case arising under
the Refreshment Houses and Wine Licences Act (23 Vie.
c. 27), which appears to us to give a correct interpreta-
tion of the statutes: He has convicted a publican for
allowing prostitutes to assemble where the ostensible
object was that of dancing, Two-thirds of the
women present on the occasion were known to the police
as prostitutes, and the learned Recorder drew the
inference that the female visitors were substantially all
prostitutes, and that the men who were present were
attracted by the knowledge that they would meet a
number of prostitutes, and have the opportunity of dancing
with them. Therefore he came to the conclusion that
the publican had encouraged and permitted the females to
assemble as an attraction to the men, who were drawn
to the place entirely by the knowledge that they
would meet this particular class of women. He held
further that it was not necessary to prove acts of prostitu-
tion resulting. Justice, however, was in a measure
defeated upon a technical point. The conviction was a
second conviction, but the magistrates had omitted •to
state on the face of it that defendant had before been con-
victed. Upon this ground he quashed the conviction
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BIRTHS.

On the.2d inst., at Cirencester, Lady Beadon, of a daughter'
On the Ist inst., at Woodcote, the wife of H. C. Wise, Esq.,
M. I'„ of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the 2d inst., at St. Michael's, Paddington, Robert Webber
Monro, Esq., son of tee late John BOSC:tWeLI Monro,
of the Middle Temple, to Frances Mary, second daughter
of Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tullychetly, Aberdeenshire.
('n the 2d inst., at Oakham, John Breugh, son of Samuel.
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James Hallam, of West View, Upper Norwood, and Mine-
London, to Alice Alderso eldest daughter of
Benjamin Adam, Esq., of Oakhani. glqer