Te St. Petersburg "Novosti" has the owing sig ficant paragraph:—Rassia, not having completely recovered from the grave consequences of hor last war with Turkey, ought not to expose her economic and financial resources to further shocks. Those sections of Russian society which welcome every great military enterprise as a source of profit and personal advantage evidently do not think of the danger to which they expose thei material welfare in the form of the inevitable consequences which every war involves, such [as the raising of taxes, the lowering' of all values, including, that of landed property, the dwindling of trade and industry, and the loss of thousands of lives, to say nothing of the evil influence of war on naional character.
SGINEERING" returns to the subject of the Navy boiler, and makes a strong case against the system under which the executive officer refuses to recognise the importance of steam. The recent: competitive trials of the Belleville boiler ship Highilyer, and the tank boiler ship Miner-¥a, are analysed as a case in point. The Highflyer had been only recently commissioned for the first time, and with few exceptions, the crew had had no previous experience with Belleville boilers; and although an inspector of machinery, who had had considerable experience with Bel loville boilers, was told off to attend the I trials, he was not at first on board the Belleville ship Highilyer, but. on the tank boiler ship Minerva, It is difficult, says "Engineering," to imagine anything more absurd and more unjust. Here is a now system of steam generation, something that confessedly needs different treatment from the old system, requiring a little more care, a little more special ate
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