Iris with no wish to add anything to the pain that the captain-of the Leesang must feel at the judgment given by the Naval Court of Enquiry' on. Monday that we re-open the matter. We have often had occasion to draw attention to the curious judgments given by similar Courts, judgments which have occasionally erred in severity, but more often—in consequence, no doubt, of a praiseworthy sympathy on the part of the assessors—in not sufficiently punishing the fault by which the vessel, whose loss is being enquired into, has been destroyed. It isa very hard thing, as has been often pointed out, that one mistake, one error in judgment, one wrong order at a critical moment, should result in blasting a man's ts for a long time if not for life. In no other walk of life does one mistake have such serious consequences for the man who makes it, but it seems inevitable that it should be so in the mercantile marine. The owners of the
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