THE TREATMENT OF THE NAVY.

Old Admiral Bowles, in a despatch dated Nov.20th, admonishes the Lords of the Admiralty by telling them, in reference to the cause if the mutiny on board the Princess Royal, that-

“Nothing can be more injudicious and unjust than the way in which officers and men returning from lengthened foreign service are treated with respect to leave; that they are dealt with as if they were culprits in whom no confidence could be placed, and are imprisoned unnecessarily on board their ships, while every possible indulgence is extended to all around them.”

Subsequently, Dex.13th, is another letter, addressed to the same high authorities, the jolly old Admiral expresses the opinion that-

“The severest measures should be taken to crush this rising spirit of insubordination in the British Navy.”

What a fine doctor the Admiral would have made. An eruptive complaint is closely analogous to a mutiny. How would Dr. Bowles have treated a case of small-pox or scarlatina. Doubtless, by the severest measures with the system, and instituted active treatment, not against mere symptoms, but for the removal of their causes, then we beg Admiral Bowles’s pardon. The gallant old officer would be for putting down insubordination among seamen by hanging or flogging, or otherwise bleeding and physicking the misrulers of the Navy.

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