Old Notions.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 218, 16 September 1886, Page 4

Old Notions.

Lor* Charles Betv-sford on tie War

Track.

LiOrd Charles Bkbesfobd, TM.P., a name thai is still familiar from Its association with soa« I ot the tnoa* stirring incidents connectedwltb ! the bombardment of Alexandria in one oi Qtui ■■"' Brituiu'a " little vrara " of later date, haßgalvan- ' iaed bomo life into the dry bones of teat parti ' ally fo3-iH3od i'epurtment kaown as the ""AA-1 nnralty.' J;e has given notice of a motioniha) all vessels of an ob^ulele type shall be soil : brokon up, or blown up, but in no case repaired Shiiis o£ the Uuke of Wel.ington, Royal Albeit and St. Jean d'Aere class, which thir^ yean ngo represented worthily the magnifloent Davil power of Kngiaad, are now rotting at theli mooringd in Portsmouth Harbonr or Uu H^moaze in charge of a caretaker, at their plucea are taken by the later typed at UevastHtions. Thunderer/, Nelsons, andßindlgj iron clad mon-tere, which are constrncted to o/tVr at least some sho « of resistanco tomodwj artillery. He, therefore, advonatea the sal«of > iliete Bhlps, or even their destruction, ratho ' !hm thuy s'.iould bo maintained as a someeol constant care, and as an incentive to the grift Scation of some first-clssd fad on the part ot aaj individual fO3s!l mtmbor cf the Board, ortht Board i-a a whole. Many ships of the clustt j which Lord fccrosfoid'smotion applleß areeren now being alttred und patchtd up in Oil ridiculous faahioc. no.ably the Tourmaline, om • ■? of the ships which accompanied the Ror«l ' Princes to Australia: and the gunboit Condor, oa which Lord Bereeford disßn- ■■'■ guiHlnd himself at Alexandria. His motion m»j not, and probably wiii not, be cinied jaat now, for It is scarcely lib i.ly that the time is yet rips for such a wholesale breach In the conservative ' traditions of the Admiralty, but it is coming with tht> other " good times " immortalisedmJ iromiaid by Russell long ago in the BOBf.. When it does come a number of other old motions will h veto go in company with the oldwar Bhips. Sevenlv-flve per cent, of the qu»clt | nostrums that make the world bo roughaptaei to live in will go at the same time, and tha i baliDce Bhortlr after. The great pain ooa- : qneror, St. Jacob's Oil, which is now BOknow-«: longed by countlees myriads of grateful heard as the best curative a^ent, and the most reliable comforter known, will then occupy the position , otsolo alleviator of human suffering; beyond ' oomparison, and without a rival. Tbat if wlalli i the matter.