Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18
LOSS OF POST QEEICE REYENIIE
ENGLAND'S MIGHT.
Some Interesting Notes concerning the
British Ar,,,y and Navy.

Some Interesting Notes Concerning the
British Army and Macy.
From the Financial Reform Almanac.
England's naval strength is $40 vessels of
915,56o tons burden, with 2,s19 guns, and
steam power equivalent to 603,448 horses.
Sixty -four of these vessels are powerful IRON
clads. So far as the number stated go. it APP
pears that we have an admiral for each of the
267 vessels in commission, with SO to spare
for receiving, store, training and surveying
ships, dispatch and tug vessels, yachts, &C.,
and 43 more than one for every two of the
$40, including coal depots, chapels, hospitals
and reformatories, There is a similar glut
with regard to the army. Of generals, count
ing those on the active list only, there is one
for every two of the Isl regiments, with 20132
to spare. There is lieutenant colonel for
each of them, with three over, and for every
regiment there are three major generals with
in eighteen, six colonies, with nineteen over,
fifteen lieutenant colonies, with A. over, and
nine majors, with 116 to spare. Proportion
ately, therefore, if not actually, we are more
abundantly supplied with officers than even
the great military powers of the continent.
OF regular troops we have ISL regiments; of
militia, yeomanry and volunteers, 498 regi-
say nothing of pensioners and reserves. We
have also sea force more powerful than
that of any two other naval powers, and the
advantage of an insular position instead of
open frontiers. We are in state of pro-
found peace with the world, and may so con-
tinue if we please. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this, there are persons among us who be-
ieve, or affect to believe, that there is moth
ing to prevent the landing of hostile force
of 100000 men upon our shores in single
night, and that there will be no safety for us
until every able bodied man among us is
trained to arms.
COMPUTING Sane Voman sn a Lsnatic
asylum.
The story of Miss Dickie's confinement in
Bloomington asylum is so extraordinary that
people naturally find some difficulty in COM
pretending the enormity of the wrong done
to her. If it should be suddenly announced
that the Malta existed in New York, and that
people were carried off from their homes on
Murray Hill, and held to ransom in caves at
Hoboken, the story would not be believed
1t is as hard to believe that physician in
New York, for fee the amount of which he
is unwilling to name, should calmly certify
to the insanity of young woman concern.
ing whom he knew absolutely nothing as
physician. It is equally hard to believe thai
the near relatives of a New York girl should
deliberately take measures to have her Sc
cluded in the living tomb of lunatic asylum
even to get control of $4,000. It is no
more easy to believe that sane woman
could be left languishing for seven years in al
asylum for the insane supposed to be open t,
regular inspection without any of the off
Gals or visitors of the asylum dreaming tina
she was person of sound sense. AL thes
things are SO staggering that the first i'm
pulse of most people naturally is to discredi