15 MAY 1852, page 14

Safety Of Iron Ships. "

THE decision of the Court-martial on the loss of the Birkenhead can hardly be said to have left the question where it was : for the very silence of the Court on important points......

Rettero To The Mar.

DANGEROUS CONDITION OP THE AUSTRALIAS AND NEW ZEALAND. Reigate, 12th May 1852. Sin—In a letter signed "W." which you published last autumn,* imme- diately after news of the......

The Weary Statesman's Lullaby. "blessed Is The Man,"...

"that first invented sleep !" —a blessing best known to the hard-working. To them it comes on the hardest of couches. The labourer needs no down for his repose; the voyager can......

The Wagner Judgment.

PROBABLY the Court of Chancery has never jumped so evenly with public opinion as in the decision on the Wagner case. The refine- ments of "Equity" and the conclusions of plain......