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The LORD CLIANCELLOR rise, with some excite went, to complain of the charge brought against hi n a: ignorant of intertutti, : nal law. He 'enied the charge. What he had sai I was that co international 1 1,,/ pet - rnitted the forcible sa:z.ire of a Yes , 1 sailing under a register directly quar2inteed by treaty. From that point he was not to h e displaced. If he ha I erred in his law, it was either intentionally or in ignorance. If he bad erred intent:onally, it wa% uejtr-tiiaL,le ; if in ignorance, that ignorance was inexcusable. Lard S . P. LEONARDA .—You are replying. The LORD CHANCELLOR: R•plying ! When the Lard Cinancell tr. of Eogland is accused of ignorance di , a w o i and Lenrtrl ad ! , learned)lrle,Cts,dohl Chancellor, I.acl w tenLo. , Ece s o l scl u . Hin t ,o r s r tn, j e l Lr i , Y i , a w najEsge: a h yrin s ie : tpethhh(lie:leen:sliwaajEtps anothert righ t e r dh fv t o,elvr e l ao e n) d lr l ad o ie n c)p,a g De e l : et i W r I. t i ' f e l l i n at . u ii) e n e diTsi loudly o : eu i e t d : l l e i I s i : y 1 a b e ' ;, o l f order. On, if I ant out of order I shall sit down, said the ' i r ., n r d t a i ) y n; : i l s Y . L t .) h t i s i nfiar!t resolution, but suggested a doubt as to the secind. Oa the question of the nationality of the Arrow, he argued that, as her licence had expired at sea, it would hold good until she got hack 0 her port of regi,try. There fore the Arrow must he cimsideled as under British co lony. Toe C:tinese, by taking the law in their own hands, had violated the treaty. He was compelled, therefore, 0 oppose the resolutions. The Earl of INIA.LNIESBURY said if the law lords actually quarrelled, and the peers of Ertgland were.puz z'e I, about this question of nationality, what must be the conditi( aof the Chinese mind on the subj .ct ? rut 1 there were other questions than those of law involved —morality and feeling. Was it to be tolerated that the powers of peace and war shoul i thus be entrusted to their colonial governors ? To what results this might lead was shown by the news of this day, that the Chinese had taken the offensive—that the rebels had joined the Im perial forces, and that an unanimous attack on the Eug- Itsh forces had been made. And what, after ad, was the war about ? Was it for the Arrow, or its nationaii•y ? Certainly not : it was to indulge the monomania of Sr John Bowring for entering into C inten. Ifs could easily understand Sir John Bowring's motive in passing that ordieanee for connecting Chinese coasters with British vessels. For what columns of figures—what estimates of tonnage—what Trade and N tvigation Returns, it opened up new facilities ! The d pity of the flog was spoken of in Sr John Bowring's di , p Aches. Was this the way to eleva'e that dignity, to authorise 20,000 or 30,000 Chinese vagabonds to go lurking about the sem, robbing and plundering, and show ing the British frig as their protection wren hunted down ? Toe flag was degraded —the country die honoured by such practices. No wonder Yeh was puzzled at the notion of a nation's "lending its flag." This showed the law to be posterior to the te- aty, and ex-_ post-facto law, and therefore not binding on the Chinese. The appointment of Sir J. Bowring %vas the original ciuse of all the mischief, and their dilficulties would in crease until he was superseded by a man of judgineni, practical knowledge, and diseretion. What forbearance had he sho vn ? What tact I Wnat p rinte of adminis tration of Government ? Just as the tray 4.a3 ab to exoire, SirJ. Bo wring had evoked thistiispute, hoping Co be Lit t•o settle it. These transactions would add another century to the rancorous le liug entertained by the Chinese towards the English, as well a.s disgrace us in the eyes of Europe. The Earl of ALBEIIARLE Sall that the vessel was not Chinese built, but Portuguese—the bull of a'i Chines vessels was regulated by law to he of :.he well known junk form. Therefore the Chinese ought to h:lvs judged the Arrow at once to be a foreign vessel. We had already given way too much to the Chinese. They thought we feared them, and therefore push( d their pre tensions further. That was the true Tartar hal,it. We must now go on and finish our work thoroughly. The violence of the people of Canton was the pretex:, for keeping us out of the city—this viole,ce was kept up i)y the Tartar commissioners. We has submitted to t!,e fear of this violence until tbe people despised us for it. The noble lord then gave a few illustrations of Ciiiiiese insolence and English submission, and dilating on the proposal to send a resident ambassador to Pekin, depre cated the attempt, enforcing his arg , imenti by tx maples and records of the various ineul . s, even up to assassination, inflicted on ambassadors, English and foreign, at Pekin. His lordship concluded by expre,s ing his intention to oppose tbe reiolutious of Lord Derby. _ Toe Earl of ELLENBO ROUGH felt great interest in this war. He had conducted a war with China, before, when the Whigs who began it did not know how to carry it on, or how to stop it. But the Government was changed—(a laugh) —and peace followed. He hoped that peace would have been more lasting. What were we a; war about ? The Chinese had never meant to in- suit the British flag —of that he was c Invinced. But even if so, had not full vengeance been taken 'I Fire alAl blopdshed did they not suffice t Dr. B)wring Lad done nothing to keep the peace, much ta prevent such a re sult. Bat the worst point of the whole was the differ ence of the language between Dr. B3wring and Consul Parkes, and Dr. Dowring and the Chinese. What paltry falsehood was }there shown ! Yet this man All remained in office. Such a man was na finger worthy to represent the honour and dignity of the Sove reign, the truth and manliness of England. Dr. Bowzirg knew the importance of the Chinese trade—how great a link that nine millions formed n the commerce of nations. It was a rule .1f policy never to g 3 into two ware at the same time. Not such the wisdom of the present G,Preromeut. B.it solreely had they brought to an end a great European war than they involved themselves in two wars in Asia! Ciina was opening to us. The power of the E opator had been declining greatly in the last 12 years, Christianity was findisg its way through the lend, when Sir J. Bow• ring cast shame on our nation, and discredit on our re ligion, by his c induct. The war was fooli,h and criminal- 1 1A it be stopped at once. Earl GRINVILLE thought it was very unworthy of the eminent leader of the last Chinese war to use all his eloquence, alid even descend to indignities both in words and gesticulations in preventing a public ser vant obtaining that serious consideration of his con duct to which his 'position as the representative of her Majesty was entitled. (11.ar.) Ile hoped by a short, simple, and unimpassioned narrative to show that Sir John Bowring, Mr. Consul Parkes, and Sir M. Seymour were perjectly justifici in ail they did. The real question was this, was the British flag flying on board the vessel that had been attacked, and had that fl ig been treated with disrespect. It had been said by a noble lord (indicating Earl Grey) that the flag was not flying— Earl GREY objected to an expression being imputed to him that he had not used. Wnat he said was, that it was a matter involved in very great doubt. Earl GRA.NVILLE—What was the evidence on this point ? Commissioner Yeh said it was usua' to have a flag lowered when a vessel was in port, and as this was not done, it was inferred that there was no flag on board. Now it was in evidence that this vessel was being an chored, and the blue peter was hoisted, so that the appa• rent anomalies on that point were at once disposed of. They bad on that point the evidence of two of our fellow countrymen, and on the other hand they had the evi dence of Commissioner Yeh—who had been hell up as such a pattern to that house—but who, it s hould be re membered had boasted that he had put to death 70,000 of his fellow-countrymen. (Hear, hear.) Now, should evidence of that sort be received in a civilised country like this ? The whole course of ibis man disen• titled him to the smallest credit. His Excellency Peter Parker, the American minister to Caine, it appeare d from a Hong Kong newspaper which had been just re ceived, condemned the treachery of this man in most unqualified terms; and with regard to truth telling, he had no hesitation in saying that the c ‘mmissioner was entirely destitute of that virtue. (Hear, hear.) Until therefore the testimony of our fellow-countryman was shown to be untrue, be thought himself justified in accepting it. Tae next point he would elluJe to was, whether or not the Arrow had a right to hoist the British flag. He would not weaken the argument of the noble baron (Wensleydale), but he maintained the conclusion to which that noble and learned lord came, that no ordinance or act had weakened the treaty which subsisted between this country and China. (Cheers.) There was no doubt on these points of in ternational law, that even amongst the most civilised nations of the West they had come to no agree ment upon the point, and he thought they were strain ing the point too far when they attempted to apply these noble principles of international law to a nation which denied even the applicability of the system of commer cial relationships. Now, what was the position of Sir John Bowring, Sir Michael Seymour, and Mr. Parkes ; for no doubt they were, one and all, responsible if any error had been committed I Sir J. Bowring havingsent his papers home they were submitted to the then law officers of the Crown. Having received their opinion, Lord Clarendon announced to Sir John Bowring that he fully approved of his conduct. He admitted that Sir John Be wring had done wrong with regard to these lor chas, if it could be shown that he had acted strictly with in the letter of the supp lemental treaty. (gear, hear.) If Sir John Bowring had committed any act which was not warranted by the supplemental treaty, he would have been guilty of a grave dereliction of duty, and they would have been heard from noble lords opposite that this Radical disciple of the Manchester School bad sacrificed-the honour of England to the paltry interests of commerce, and Ord he had diegracel that flag which was respected throughout the world—a flag which represented a country which had never known shame, defeat, dishonour, or subutiseion. That would have been the sort of language which :would have been used by the Opposition if Sir John Bowring had not acted as he had done, and had not vindicated the honour of his country. It appeared to him that Sir John Bow ring was justified' in acting upon the assumption that the Arrow was entitled to the British flag ; indeed, that he had no other conree undfr the circumstances to plueue. He thought, moreover, that the demands which were made by Mr. Consul Parkes were moderate and tem perate, terms which he vas perfectly right in urging upon the commissioner—that the men who had been arrested should have been cent back in that public manner which would have won respect from a cuntry where so much punctilio was observed. c o H thought in discussing these questions they ought not to forget the bearing they would L ave upon the p eop l e of England. No one more earnestly deprecated than himself the horrors of war, he thought their lordships should pause before they had placed an in delible mark of disgrace upon those pubic servants who had done their beet to discharge their public duty. Great stress had been laid on the fact_ that the residence of IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LO RDS .—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woo'. saok at 5 o'clock. CHIEF CONSTABLES BILL. Viscount DUNGANNON postponed his motion re lative to the see of London until this day week. The noble viscount al o gave notice that, when their lord ships wait into committ.N3 upon the Constabulary Bill, he should move a Koriso that no person should be eli gible to fill the office of chief constable who has been a bankrupt, or has passed through the Insolvents' C ,urt, unless he should prove, to the satisfaction of the Home Secretary, that such bankruptcy or insolvency Ills not been caused by fraud or extravagance. The Earl of HARDWICKE presented several Peti tions in favour of the exsmptiou of incomes below 1501 per annum from the operation of the income tax. PUBLIC HEALTH SUPPLEMENTAL BILL. This bill was read a second time. L 1W OF LIBEL AS APPLICABLE TO REPORTS. Lord CAMPBELL, in proposing the resolutions of which he had given, said that as he did not anticipate any resistance ho should hare occasion to occupy their lordships' attention only a few minutes. He observed that a decision bad recently been given by the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench upon the question whether or not a true report of the proceedings of what was called a publin meeting, in which statements were made re flecting upon the character of an individual, was privi l.ged, or whether the newspaper which published the rc port was not amenaLl: to the law of libel. That decision being undoubtedly a fit subject for public comment had been severely criticised. It was urger' that the cilia ought to have held that a true and faithful report of such proceedings was privileged, however libellous, and that it was sufficient to give a remedy as against the speaker of the libel. That doctrine was said to be founded upon the case of the Earl of Northampton, as reported in Coke ; but the fact was, that the decision which was thus cpoted as an authority was entirely extra judicial. It wag the dictum of certain lords, who were members of the Star Chamber, in reference to oral statements, and went merely to say that if a man simply repeated a verbal accusation as having Leen made by another person, he was not liabis. To suppose that the publication of all proceedings of public meetings was pri vileged—whether libellous or not—would be most a'arm ing. What was a public meeting? Why, the meetings of Mr. Ernest Jones were public meetings ; and if such a doctrine were laid down, the publica'ion of sedition alight be held lawful, nor would there would be any safety fur private character, for it would be the easiest thing in the world for a man to get up at one of those meetings and calumniate his neighbour, knowing that his statements would be made public. At the same time, there ought to be a privilege extended to journalists in doing that which was for the public benefit. If there were no reports published of the debates in that and the other house of parliament, their lordships and the mem bers of the other house would probably feel dissa tisfied, while the public would suffer a great incon venience. As the law shod the fairness and impartiality of such reports, however, did not protect the neivspapers that published them from the operation of the law of libel on account of any libellous statements they might contain. This was the opini,m of his late noble aid learned friend Lord Denman; but that high autho rity added that he was strongly of opinion that it ought to do so. Having this eminent authority in his favour, in the bill which he introduced in 1842 a clause was in serted to accomplish the object which he now Fought carry out. That clause was not passed, but he hoped their loriships would come to the conclusion that the time had arrived when the privilege which was extended to the proceedings of the courts of law might be safely extended to the proceedings of Parliament—that was to the debates of both houses: Whether they might venture to go further, and extend the privilege to other assem blies, he would not undertake to say. Without going so far as to say that reports of all pubic meetings ought t•.) be privileged in the same way, there were meetings of a public character from the publication of whose proceedings there was no reason to apprehend that any danger, or any injury to private character, would result. For in stance, there was convocation. Amongst the right rev. prel rtes, who constituted the upper house, and the rev. members of the I ewer house, there was no reason to ex pect that any would indulge in slander, or descend to attack the private character of individuals. Perhaps al .o the same privilege might, under certa;n limits, be al -1 ►wed to the proceedings of county and borough meet ings ; but it would be for the committee and their lord ships to say—should his motion he agreed to—with what restrictions the privilege should in such cases be accom panied. Reminding the house that the last alteration in the law had been founded upon the report of a similar committee, the noble and learned lord, whose remarks were throughout but very partially heard, concluded by moving for a select committee, to consider whether the privilege now enjoyed by the reports of the proceedings of courts of justice might not be safely and properly ex tended to reports of the proceedings of the two houses of parliament, ald of any and what other assemblies or public meetings, undo r any and what conditions or restrictione. Lard \VENSLEY D ALE made a few remarks, as was understoood, in support of the view expressed by Lord Campbell, but none of his observations reached the gal• !cry. The motion was then agreed to. CU/NA.—THE ADJOURNED DEBATE. The Rirl of CARNARVON, in resuming' the debate, observed that none of the facts or arguments advanced n favour of his node friend's motion — had been contro- verged or answered. The members of the Government who spoke on the former evening dwelt on the obstinacy of the Chinese character, of Chinese ignorance of Eng lish customs and habits, and the difficulty of dealing with the Chinese Government on the principles of interna tional law ; and the noble earl opposite (the Enl of Cla rendon) used expressions which, as coming front such a (parter, he heard with much regret, when he spoke of the difficulty of dealing with the Chinese in any other way than by making them sensilsls of the laws of force. The real question was whether the lorcha Arrow was a Chinese or an English vessel ; for if she was a Chinese vessel, which the whole facts brought forward proved her to be, every ground of defence and justifica tion for the proceedings which had been taken by Sir J. Bo wring and the other British authorities was cut away. It was clear from the statement of the Colonial Attor ney-General himself that the Chinese residents to whom the letters of registration were granted were not British subjects. The noble and learned lord on the woolsack said that the fact of the English Government authoris ing a ship to go to a foreign country and to carry the English flag, made that ship as regarded that foreign country an English ship. He would not venture to place his opinion against that of so high an authority ; but he might be permitted to quote against it an authority which , was genetal'y admitted by English lawyers to be of some weight. Blackstone laid it down that a man's allegiance to his country could not be cancelled or altered without the concurrence of the Legislature, not only of the adopted state, but of the Legislature of the state in which he was born ; but he (Lord Carnarvon) was content to rest the case on the autho rity of one of the most influential members of her Ma jesty's Government. A few weeks since a letter was written by Mr. Waddington, by order of Sir George Grey, on the subject of naturalisation. In that letter was as fellows :—" I am directed by Secretary Sir Geo. Grey, to state to you that no certificate or other act of naturalisation granted to an alien places him beyond the control of his native country, unliss ho bas received from such country a certificate of denaturalisation, or has liy some other means been released from his natu ral obligation." (Hear.) Now, was there any de naturalisation in this instance ? Not only was there nut the vestige of concurrence on the part of the Chi ese government, but absolute repudiation. The noble lord (Clarendon) read the treaty by the light of the colonial ordinance, but the colonial ordinance contravened the lew of the Imperial Parliament ; and when it was ratified, the act under which alone such ratification could be authorised had not passed. The noble lord seemed to have forgotten that there was no documen tary definition of what was or was not a British vessel. The noble lord seemed to think that the word " lorcha" implied a British vessel, but the fact was that there were vessels answering that description, and trad ing in the Canton river, from Holland and America, as well as from the English colony ; but with respect to privileges, there were certain privileges granled to Bri tish vessels, and intended for British vessels only, and if you extended them to every nation in the world there would be an end to international law. It was only a year eines the Government had given up the right of priva teering, but here they were claiming a right which, in his opinion, would only be attended with much more die astreus consequences. He said that a Chinese ship could not under any circumstances be realised by a British re gister, but the fact he believed in this case was that the vessel had no register at all. However, supposing all these privileges contended for to be real, supposing the colonial governor to have this extraordinary power, those were additional reasons why he should be more scrupu• lous in its exercise, and more anxious as regarded the issue. But the register in this case was a fiction a nd an imposture, and on Sir John Bowring's own word could he convict him. (Hear.) There were letters to Consul Parkes admitting that the vessel bad no register, and to Governor Yell asserting that she had, and both under Sir John's own hand. In his (Earl of Cernarvon's) opi nion, a transaction more discreditable to Englishmen had never ic; twe transpired. colours . Ile (H wase"r. ) n Surely ete ne of here ho w s e a who w ie o l a sh u d u sb e o e s n: sure a public servan t on li g ht g rounds. Men serving in a distant cou n t r y mus t b e entrus t e d w ith sufficient powers, t hut here was a case in which the British Government throw its protection over a man who by their own acknow ledgment had stated one thing in one document and an other in another. He would ask what were really the de mands made on the Chinese ? He found that four succes sive demands h a d b een ma d e. On the Bth O c t, C o nsul a w p a o a l o notgy , with complied a n a s s Parkes demanded th e p u bli c return of the twe l ve men ; four 'lees after h e d eman d ed their public return an d au with h ce that ree t i t f ra in e 4w-80huoliders be e is demandhail to force. This demand he enforced by seizing on the fort and breaching the ga t es ; all this he did on the ground of the attack on the lorcha alone. What did the Chinese Theyscarce menly returned e a butin r e t t h u e r y n f or returnedthi s ? the twelve such a one as might be acc e pt e d without m an a derogation to the honour of this country. (Hear, hear.) The men were released on the 22d, and on the 23d our forces set fire to the tots n. The third demand was f or free com munication, and two days after th e f ourt h demand was made for free commun:cation for every foreign represen tative with all the authorities of Cant on . Referringto Sir John Bowring's subsequent wooinge an d their success with Governor Yeb, he (Earl of Cat narvoo) was reminded of King Richard the Third's wooing of the Lady Anne. Sir John might exelaim— " Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won V' And on his success might add— " My Dukedom to a beggarly denier I do mistake my person afl the while. Upon my life, she dads, although I cannot, Myself to be a marvellous proper rn an." Surely if Richard 111. was a " marvel]. )us improper" king, Sir John B Jwrieg was equally as " inarvdleu s impropsr" a represeetetive of the Bciti , h Government. The Chinese had been charged with infractions of the treaties, but had the En4lish been guilty of no,violations of the Trsaty of 1812 in respect to the opium trade ? It was stated that the British were refused entrance into the interior, but the fact was that there was a road in constant use by our merchants frorn Shanghai to Chusan. The great question, however, was whether the Govern meet were prepared to support a war commenced in the circumstances of the Chinese dispute ? What wou'd he said if the British consul at Marseilles were to declare war at his own discretion against the French nation, and order the fleet to cmne up and b)inhard the town ? Would any power in Europe he found to advocate such a step ? He believed that if the integrity of Turkey and Persia were essential to the preservation of the balance of 'sewer, surely the Chinese empire was equally necee sary to maintain the political equilibrium of the world. Upon the religious point of view he agreed with a great deal that had been said ; but as for the present war being just and necessary he must beg to diffsr from tha', especially after thr.e Foreign Secretaries had declared its olsject to be both unjust and unnecessary. It had been said that injury was 'swift, but justice was sl )w. The injury ha I been swift in this case, bet it was the duty of Parliament, whose action was unfortunately re trospective, to see that justice was done as speedily as possible. Lord METHUEN said the great question in the dis cue•ion was whether the Arrow was an English vessel, and whether Commis-inner Yeh believed it to be so. Upon this point there was the evidence of two Irishmen and two Chinese against that of the Commissioner Yoh, but the chief evidence was to he found in the conduct of Commissioner Yeh himself, who would not so readily have given up the Arrow had he not believed it to be an English vessel. Lord Sr. LEON ARDS (to whom Lord Wensleydale gave way, after some demur on the part of several noble lords) said he felt bound to come forward to vindicate the law itself. It was purely a judicial question whe ther the Arrow was a British vessel. By the 3.1 article of the treaty ceding Hong Kong to this country the English were permitted to have a place fn. a port and the deposit of stores. But the British had ensheavoured to divert the Chinese from their lawful allegiance. We were bound to look at the ex set words of the treaty, and maintain its just interpretation before all the word. In the latter part of the treaty the Chinese were expressly prohibited from taking criminals out of British vessels, being English ships of war or English merchant ships. Now, could anybody doubt what that phrase meant ? Woul f anybody include in that description a treading junk? The spirit and intention of this treaty were so clear that he was surprised that any attempt should be made to bring the Arrow into that category. But then by article 17 came the further description of English vessels, such as schooners, foram, &e., and by that article all vessels cawing under the description there given were to carry a separate register or I.cence. Bet what was the Imperial law upon the subject of ownership 1 It had been expressly laid down that there could be no British vessel without British owners. In many colonies, however, it was con tempi ated that it might be found expedient to modify that 547th section, which defined who were to be consi dered British subjects for the purpo , es of ownership. Power was therefore reserved ti her Majesty in c ivacil to wake such modifications as circumstances mightrender necessary. An ordinance for this purpose was issued for the British possession in China ; but would the noble lord opposite say that the act of 1 , 154 was to be inoperative ? Was it to be pretended that th e colonial legislature had power to repeal an act of the Imperial legislature ? It was the law of the land that a British vessel must have a British owner, and an owner that national sense which gave England the great maritime position she held amongst commercial nations. (Hear.) As a constitu tional lawyer, he gave it as his deliberate opinion teat the colonial ordinance in que , tion was nothing more than waste paper. There was no room for argument about it, because the only act of Parliament it could refer to declared it Mega ; and without some imperial enact ment to authorise it, a colonial ordinance of this charac ter was null and void. It was clear that Sir J. Boa-ring bad not the slightest 'lotion himself of the true effect of the ordinance he was promulgating. (Elie lordship here read the terms of the ordinance i n d e t a il ) 1-Is asserted that the ordinance never went beyond this, that vessels might trade with Hong Kong, but nevergave them power to go into the Canton river. The Legislature of Hong Kong gave a vessel authority to use the British flag. Registers were granted to lorchas, but the Legislature of Hong Kong frequently found that the Chinese dis graced the British flag, and that they never came back. It was determined' that this state of things must be stopped by an ordinance, and that or dinance was passed. The noble earl (Clarendon) had stated that that ordinance did not contravene any Bid tish law, but he did not prove the statement, and mere assertion in such a ease as this was not suffieient. The noble earl had stated that the act would have been con travened if a British register had been conferred ; and it must be remembered that only a colonial register was conferred enabling the vessel to trade between the col ,- nies and Hong-Kong. Then, after all, this was not a British register at all. (Cheers and laughter.) The Earl of CLARENDO.N—I said it was a colonial register. (Hear.) lord ST. LEONARDS —Yes, but a colonial register in such a case was nothing mare than waste paper. If it had been an imperial register he would say that they must stand by the imperial law, but if it was a colonial register it was clearly worth ro'hing at all. (Bear, hear.) Let them take an illustration of the general meaning. Suppose China had th.mght it right to make war upon uq, and had conquered us instead of we con tuering them. Suppose we had been compelled to make a cession Ceina, and the territory we had ceded was the Isle of Wight. What would have been said if the Chinese in the Isle of_ Wight, which we had been compelled to cede, as the Chinese had been compelled to cede 11 , )ng Kong, had granted registers to all English ve , sel a coming out of Portsmouth, and had sent them back, saying that the men were Chinese sub jects. The roble earl had said that Hong King was a a s übi : ct; Conquer conedhe c q o u l o e rneyd couldcol y d , o a a n s d i t t h p a l t e a t h s e e d l . eg i i; a p t o u n re; b o i l s might remind the noble earl had long since decided what was right oto be considered a conquerednsidereda British colonyrita ishves:els o all over simplyovneerthewiltdo. The that colony, but it could not under any pretence be sup posed to apply to independent districts with which it had no connection, and with which it had nothing what ever to do. The noble lord on the woolsack, in the course of the speech which ho delivered on the last evening of debate, directed his attention to two points— first, na tional law, and, second, the evidence of the vessel being an English vessel. He maintained tLat the law which the Lord Chancellor had laid down was not the law of nations. If a nation gave a flag to a ship, and that shio went into a foreign p that port would look to the country to which that ship belonged br the redress of any grievance that might arise. A British ship in a friendly port, as well as in its own port, was free from all ev,ernal jurisdiction, and he contended that in the case under discussio n the Arrow was not entitled to the slightest privileges. (Hear.) What was law here was law vis . In Arrowasre h ga r 'ee same d r merchantoi in both u vessels ttereinsuCbhiuid to precisely this case th e Chi nese acted upon the belief that submitted not a s nd a British vessel, and that they were couldt master,e h y e n r he e a wvt w heh r e ob o s been seizure entitled to it. If they nza i us very a e t y h w aoaetuas young m a gi n ya j ide e r ex c i s. t iui‘vmrt When ene i nd : wasa w n a d a repaired.nowrong b which t e he went back he found that his flag had been struck, and he inquired the reason why. He was told that it had been done by a Chinese mandarin, and while the mandarin was present the flag was quietly readjusted by the master. Here there was certainly no overwhelming grievance. Nov, there was one remarkable circumstance to which Yeh o in9tantly d rectal attention, and to which the Go.. vernment during the presobt discussion had not offered sny denial. Yeh said it had been sworn by many of the men that there was no flag, and he added that it was the custom of Englsnd, when a vessel cave into port and at author to lover the fl ►g and not to re-hoist until it went -- - away. From that practice not being attended to he in- I ferred, and very naturally, that there was not a fieg. Now, let their lordships remember that on the 34 Oct. the register of this vessel wasdilivered up by the master, who knew at that tines that it was five or six days out of date, and in this respect he (Lord St. Leonards) thought there had been a misconstruction of the ordinance on which alone the register cool I rest. Whatever the power of the register might be under other circumstances, un- ' less the ordinance supported it, it could not have the slightest operation. In this case it was, of course, neces sary to re-register at the end of 12 months, independent of any other circumstan c es whatever. e took it that the true construction of the treaty admitted of no doubt that every vessel under that regulation wee bound to re gister at the end of a year. And then there was a proviso that the register should be exhibited every six months to the harbour master. Directly, therefore, the time of the register expirtd, the vessel 13st e ve ry privilege it might have derived from that source. Now all these matters should have been represented by Sir J. Bewring to the commissioner at Canton. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to have represented to the commis sioner that there had been a mistake, arid have sought some proper explanation before such extreme steps were taken. But what were they to say to Sir J. 13owring representing that this register was in full force, in spite of the fact that it had eXplred—and in spite, too, of the fact that-he him self hail said that he would take time to consider whether or not he would renew it. The register then had expir e w hen the 12 men were arrested on the Arrow. Yell offered, over and over again, to give them up, but ask ed that two of them might be returned t o them, because they we re convicted pirates, and subje c t s o f the Emperor o f Udine. But that was objected to by Mr. Consul Pa rkes. (Lord St. Lenuards) thought th a n ; t h e g reatest coni plitneet that could have been passed upon any country was the sending back of those twelve men, and he he. beved that the Chinese thought that, in bending them back, they were doing all that was necessary, as in truth they were, awl the two men demanded ought to have been sent back in accordance with the terms of the treaty was b e t w een the two countries. tut all this was u seless, an d the war was commenced, the city of Ca nton shelled, and th e commissionee e residence w as destroyed Odessa, under m ore aggravated circumstance., spared sprareesdThere was nothing in Canton that c told aff c t their forces, Why did they not spare Canton ? (Chee rs.) ; b u t there was plenty in Odesia t') induc e forces to destroy it — pl ent y of materie l, p ower, and men. But the Eng l ish plenipotentia r y had destroyedo ourd SHARE MARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices yenerday, Easiness dons this day. 7 -- , Id I RAILWAYS. 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That the attack bad been fellowed up with determination he was prepared to admit, but it must be known that when warlike pro ceedings were o ice commenced, it was the most merci ful course to pursue them with vigour. (Hear.) Then, as to what the noble earl had termed the monon'ania of Sir Jeen Bo etring—that of penetrating into Caine— .lll he ()wild say was if this were a monomania of So John B.iwring it was the tuaduess of several hundred 1 people noble earl then read Extract , nn the 1-otters of several inissi mari t show) now strongly of pinion they -were that attempts emelt have been male ember to ohta n an rut:a ,ce i Ito Caine, and fr in official sheensmt. eeiciat:ne frem Etrl Grey an I of 1 , r stetestuen in Eue len 1 to the same effect ) Was Sir John Bo wring a'one t? a opinion ? Far irotu it, Lr all clases of pers :ns who were acquaint , d with China c , me to the same ccnclesi in, a: d it was scarcely fsir to fix . upon Sir Jotln Bo wring the vague charge of inoemnania—(llear, hear). It roust in con nection will this subject be remem ed, that S r John Bowing did not insist upon the lull dem ends which he might have made consistently with his instructions, but that he acted wi.h m d raticn Suppot e one Engliehtnan testead of twelve Chine ;e had been taken, woul 1 it have been the duty cf the English plenipotentiary, with a naval force at lis di , p sal, t send home for instructions while ell sorts of iejuries asd insults would have been offered to one who: he was bound by every considera tion of pubic polio to protect. (Cheers.) lie thoug! t not, and under the whole of the circumstances, I e thought it would be unjust to atop; the resolution-3 which cat so strong a censure upon the British Weds ter. (lieu-, hear.) The noble earl who introduced the resolutions cm eluded his able speech with an appesl to the episcopal bench. Such appeals were not uncomin_n in that house, when it was supposed that the members of the episcopal bench were not going to vote just as noble lords would 1 ke. On such occasions the members of the episcop 1 bench were treated to a sermon, some times long and interesting, someimes short and tedious. The noble lord wanted the right reverend prelates to sur render the right of private judgment, aed to create a fame for themselves by placing themselves under the noble lord's direction. (Rear, heer.) Ile should make no appeal to the episcopal bench, for he thought they had quite sufficient intelligence to judge for themselves, and not to be guided in their palittcal course by the disin terested advice of the noble earl. (Loud cheers.) The nobrs earl then appealed to the hereditary peerage for supper, Lie (Lord Granville) regretted the losses which the houte had recently sustained. That day the last rites had been performed over one of its most eminent members (the Earl of Ellestnere). With regard to that appeal to the hereditary peerage, he believed it would not have the effect which the noble earl supposed; for he (Earl Granville) fully relied upon the justice, can dour, asd public spirit of the hereditary peers of Eng-. land. lie begged their lordships to remember that while eminent lawyers and statesmen on the opposite side of the house had denounced the conduct of Sir John Bow ring, they had not pointed out what his should have done, sod ho thought, therefore, that, blarne the Go vernment as they might, they woull not be just , fied passing an indelible stigma upon the conduct of the English plenipotentiary. (Cheers.) The Bishop of OXFORD said the question had a higher range than that of parry merely. lie felt that he mu t vote for the resolutions. War was either a curse or a stern and . inevitable necessity. To justify war 'we must show that we have grounds. We canuot do so it this historic . The whole was attrilmta.he to a hea- strong con-ul and a thoughtless plenipotentiary. Let withdraw from it as soon 38 possible. Let ud lea‘c t..e guilt of its commencement on the bead of Sir J , din BJwring. With us be the merit of putting at once a stop its continuance. The bishop coi.cluded a long a eloquent rprech by as , erting his intention to kupp r t the Earl of air;.y's resolutions. Tne house lOtio divided. For the resolution—Present.. 57 —llO Against—Present Proxies . 75-146 Majoii'y Tlio, house thee adjouroed at ten minutes to one o'clock. Proxies HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) Tile SPEAKER Oak the chair at four o'clock. NEW ME \JEER. Mr. ftssTrif took the oaths and his seat for Colchester. PRIVATE BUSINESS. r The fAlowing private bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed :—Mid Kent and South Kent Railway. THE CHINA WAR. Petitions were pres , nted from Smathampton, Carlisle, Hull, Darlington, Sheffield, and other places, condemn• ing the war with China, and calling on the Government to recall Sir J. Bowriug and Mr. Consul Parkes. TOBACCO SMUGGLING. Mr. H. G. LA.NGTON moved for a return of the se veral seizures made and of the prosecutions for breach of the laws relating to tol),:cco, between . the 5... h day of January, 1855, and the sch day of January, 1857, distinguishing those in Great Britain from those in Ireland ; specifying the places where and the names of the persons prosecuted, or from wham the s&zures were made ; the quantities and kinds of goods seized; the precise nature of the offences charged or for which the seizures were made ; the results of the examinations of the goods by analysis or otherwise where se,zed for adulteration ; whether and what judicial proceed ings were' taken in each case ; the result of such proceedings, whether convicte i or otherwise ; amount of fine paid or imprisonment suffered ; whether the goods seized were c mdemned ssr restored (in continuation of Parliathentary Paper No. 429 of session 1854 5). Agreed to. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Mr. M. GIBSON moved for returns of the number of newspaper st4rAps tit ld. issued to newspapers in Eng lmd, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Ist day of Juiy, 1855, to the let day of July, 1856: And, of tt e halfpenny stamps issued as above, during the same period (in continuation of PArliamentary paper No. 438 of session 1851-s). —Agreed to. CAPITAL PUNISaNIENT (SCOTLAND). Mr. W. E WART gave notice that on that day fort. night be should move to introduce a bill to abolish the laces enacting or prescribing capital punishment in Scat land, to the same extent as it had been abolished by the lAw of Engl tnd. D ECI A.L COINAGE, Mr. 8EA.2.11811 asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer the date of the Royal Commission to inquire into the exoeiiency of adopting a decimal coinage, the num• her of sittings the commissioners had had, what progress they had made, and when a report might be Expected from them ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the date of the commission was Oat., 1855. The com missioner= had held 18 sittings ; and with regard to their progress he read a communica t ion from Lords' Monte:xo and OvErstose, stating w hat the y had done, and that they hoped shortly to make a preliminary report. S. - ver.).l important points were still ti be considered, ann it was impossible to slate when they would conclude taking evidence. ARMY. &o. EXAMINATIONS. Mr. W. BtVART moved for an address for returi, showing what were the present subjects of examination on entering the army; and whether any eximination wa held, or conternp!ate.l (and, if so, on what subjects), on promotion in the army ; also, whether the examinations proposed for candidates in the diplomatic and consular serrice bad been carried into effect, and, if so, what were the subjects of those examinations. —Agreed to. THE CATTLE DISEASE. Mr. STAFFORD asked whether the attention of the Government had been called to the epidemic disease a mong cattle in Central Europe ; and whether the Board of Control had taken any measures t ) prevent the land ing of diseased cattle in this country ? Mr. LOWE said that the attention of the Board 'of Trade bad been called to the subject, and in consequence they had put themselves into communication with the Foreign-office to obtain through the consuls all informa tion that could be got on the subject, and also w ith th e Customs, who possessed sufficient powers to prevent the impo4 ation of infected animals. H e h a d received informatton from the Customs that day that a calf had been found on board the Concordia, from Rotterdam, evincing symptoms of disease. It was accordingly killed and the body destroyed. Mr. BAILEY asked if orders bad been sent to the Customs, limiting the importation of cattle under the circumstances Mr. LOW E—No. The Customs already possessed a discretionary power with regard to the importation of cattle. It was a question that belonged to the Board of Customs, and not the Beard of Trade. The remainder of the cattle were found to be free from disease. THE KAFIR. WAR. ' Mr. ADDERLEY asked the Secretory of State for the Colonies when papers 'atin g to the settlement of the German Legion on thrKafir frontier, and to the expenditure, u nder two votes of 40,0001 each, in the estimates of? the two last session., for pensioner settle ments on that frontier, would be laid on the table of the house ? Mr. J. BALL said that the papers were in the hands of the printers, and he hoped shortly to lay them on the table of the house. The details of the 40,0001. had not yet been received from the Governor of the Cape. PUBLIC WORKS IN INDIA.. Mr. 01 ; i1TAY asked the Pre.ident of the Board of Control whether a now kat), to the amount of three millions' sterling, bearing interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, had been recently opened in India, and whether it was intended to devote the produce of that bean to puldie works in India ? Mr. V. S CUTEI said that the question wa3 founded on a tilegraphic communication received from Trieve. Until the arrival of the mail he could not answer the question. THE CATTLE gave Mr. STAFFORD icetatto-naorro w be should call th e attention of the house to the disease amongst foreign cattle. THE TEA DITTIES. Mr. M. GIBSON asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer if, on going into committee on ways and means, he would take the tea duties first The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER said that it would be impossible to do O. The house must first get rid of the resolution on the income tax now before the hou , 4e. Mr. GLA.DSTONE said that he should not propose his resolution on the tca trade on the motion of the com mittee. The the - ( Spe?ker boating the chair, b ut in e'en of till committee wluld determine him as to th q Int Ire cDnr ull fmr,ue. FLiC.A.L AFFATR3 (IRELAND). On the tri..)tion of Sr D. NOREtEYS, 1 was given to introduce a bill for the Netter administration of the fiwal affairs of e7ninti3i in Ireland. WAR IN CHINA. Mr. COBDEN presetited p litions from Darlington and Brighton, protesting, against the course taken in the recent hostiliiies with China. M. GIBSON. presented a similar petition from ArLindic ster. :r. COBDEN . then rose to move, " That this house has heard with concern .of the conflicts Which have oc curred between the British and Chinese authorities in the Cautui river; and without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have af f )rded this country cause of complaint respecting the non fulfilment of the treaty of 1842, this house consi(iers that the papers which have 13en laid upon the table fail to es tablish ervisfactory grounds for the violent measures re sorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow, that a stlect committee be appointed to inquire into the state of our commercial relations with China." He said—g now. ing to how large an extent the national conscience h as beta moved by the question to which I now invite the at tention of the house, judging from the manifestations of opinion in ordinary organs of information from which we learn what is passing in the mind of the people of this brat nation; knowing how h,rge an amount of sympathy the objnt I have in view has excited, I can only regret that the subject has nat fallen into abler hands. LA me stipulate, therefore, that whatever may be the decision to which the house may come, it may be taken on the merits of the case, and that the question will not be allowed to suffer on ncceunt of its a ivccate. I beg distinctly to sag that I have no party object., nu personal or other motive to serve—(hear, hear)—but to arrive at a just decision on this important subject. Personally I have every motive to avoid giving pain to any one, and still more to visit with retribution the gentleman who now holds the office of Pleni potentiary at Hong Kong, and who, unless his conduct is endorsed by that Government, I shall hold resp nsible f r the proceedings which have taacen place. Sir J. Bowrinz Is a friend of twenty years' standing, and I can have no yin. dictive feeling agatnst him, and no desire for vengeance on him or any other person. I wish the Government had not come to a hasty decision on this subject, so that we might have come to the consideration of the question only with a desire to deal with it on a principle of justice. To begin at the beginning. It appears that on Sth Oat. last a vessel called a lorcha, which is a nano derived from the Portu , gueoe settlement of Diana-', at the mouth of the river oppo site G . enton and which means th a t it i s a E uropean vessel, .and not built in China, was boarded by the Chinese officers, and 12 men taken out of the vessel, on a charge that seine of them had been engaged in acts of piracy. Twelve of the men were removed, and two left in charge of the ship. Im mediately on. this coming to the knowledge of Mr. Parkes, our Consul at Canton, ne made a reclamation to the Go vernor of Canton, on the ground that according to the last treaty between this country and China any malfeasance towards the Chinese authorities by British subjects should be taken cognisance of before the British Consul, and not before the Chinese authorities themselves. Ta this he re ceived an answer that the whole of the men and the vessel were nut British, but Chinese. The matter was referred to Sir J. Bowring at Hong Kong, which is about 12 hours' steam passage from Canton. On the 10th three of the men were ieturned, but nine, on the ground'of grave suspicion against them, were retained. Thus the matter stood, when Sir John Bowring gave an ietituation to the Chinese authorities, that unless within 46 hours the whole of the men were returned in a nianner specified, an apology made for the act of the Chinese officers, and a pledge given that 110 such act should be done for the future, naval operations would be commenced against the Chinese towne On the 22,1 of October the whole of the men were returned, and a letter was tent with them, in which I'd), the governor of the province, stated that the ship in question was not a British ship, and the English bee no concern whit it, but that he had returned tee men at the instance of the Consul, and lie promis el that eu Witisti ship should ever again be vie ted by a Chiues ~ officer. On the 23 i opera hoes were couluienceei areiust the Barrier Forts, an I they were continued until the 2 ith ; tile Barrier, Bogue, and Dutch Folly Forts, and 4ej auks, wire destroyed. The :mimeos of Canton were pulled, or burnt, or battered down. Now b •ar in wind that the suburbs of Cant. n cantata a po puletion entirely dependent upon our ioreign trade, and they are almost our only friends. These operations con tinued until Nov. le, and in-fact the governor's house was shelled. Shells were thrown at a range of 2,000 yards, to reach the Tartar quarter of the town at the other side of the city. These facts are set forth in the pathetic appeals to the inhabitants, and the depositions of leading me i, 801110 of iliein of world-wide reputation, eugagtd in leader That was the state of things up to the ate of the iast ad vices. I lay these things before the house as the bases of our investigation, not with the view of appealing to your humanity, or in order to excite your feelings, but to show that we are at war with China—that a great destruction tf property has taken place. What I want the house to inquire into is this—How was this affair begun? Why was it begun? And who were its authors? Not for the bene fit of the Chinese, but for the vindication of our own hon our. I ask you to consider this case precisely as though you were dealing with a strong power, and not with a weak one. I have seen with humiliation the tendency in this country to pursue two courses of policy, the one for the strong an I the other for the weak. (lie :r, hear.) If I know anything of my countrymen and of the House of Commons, that is not the natural quality of the English. That never was our reputation. (Cheers.) We have had the character of sometimes being a little arrogant and overbearing, and with having a tendency to pick a quarrel, but, we never had the character of being bullies to the weak and cowards to the strong. Let us consider this case as if we were dealing with America. We have a treaty with China which puts us on an equality with that country as to our nati nal relations. That treaty binds us to reciprocal conduct, and its our dealings with that country we ought to observe the same justice as we would with regard to the United States, to France, or to Russia. Now, what are the grounds for the devastation and warfare we are carrying on in the Canton river ? • Our plenipotentiary in China says that a violation of our treaty rights has taken place in re gard to the Arrow. In the first place I think that was a question which might have been referred home before any extreme measures hart been resorted to. In the next place I want to know what is the question of international taw ? I will take the opinion of the highest legal autho rity in the country, and after the authoritative declaration made iu another place on Tuesday evening by Lord Lynd hurst I should consider myself - presumptuous if I attempted, with my ignorance of the laws of nations, to lay down my views on this occasion. Lord Lyndhurst has declared with reference to the case of the ship Arrow that the Chinese governor is right, and I heard him say that he could not do better in ~ ertnressing his opinion than by using the very words of the Chinese governor that this vessel, the Ar row, is in no respect a British vessel. (Cheers). But we have other grounds of testing the legality of this affair. When Mr. Parkes communicated the fact of the visit to 1 this lorcha to Sir John Bowrine, Sir Jobe, in reply, said, " it, appears, on examination, &at the Arrow had no right to hoist the British flag; the licence to do so expired on the 27th of Sept., trete wretch period she has not been en titled to protection. You will send back the register to be ' delivered to the Colonial-office." And on the following lay, in another letter written to Mr. Parkes, Sir John Bowriug says, " I will consider the re-granting the register of the Arrow if aprileet r;)r ; but there eau be no eoubt that after the expiry of the Ramos, protection could not be legally glaute(l. - (Hu. r, tieet.) I might step here, for this is the whole case. But what course did Sir John Bewring recommend Air. Parkes to take ureter these cirettinstahees ? I will ask you to coestder yeurselves et - easing with another party. I will suppose that in stead el being at Hong Kong dealing with Canton we wale at Wesbingtou deeliug with Casrle-toe. Not long ego a law was easseti iu South Carole a which went against all cherished predilections of ties ceurery, re quiring that when a cnitured citizen of this country, who is as much an Eagliehinau as you are, arrived at Charles. ton, he should be taken from his ship, and okepped into gaol for safe custody until his ship was ready to sail. If any measure could be taken iu any country more calculated totwouud our susceptibilities as a nation, it that was law. What did our consul do at Charleston? Did he send for the British ships of war and bombard the governor's residence? No; he informed the minister at Washingtoe, and that minister went to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and ob tained anexplauation —the explanation weaning nothing more than this,—" We are in a difficulty, you must have patience with As.' And we lied patience; we diet not resort to force. If the case which wo a e now considering lied happened at Washington what would have been the course of our amoassador? - When he received a letter from the consul at Charleston saying he had W nd a o s n hin th g e . Amerleau authorities, and when the n on which -that, owing to the lapse of tinie„ the ton referred to the documents in his instrument ma ii i t e lis is te d r at a archives, and found against the Amer:- and that he had no standing g precisely rn the cue© here, fur the the consul lied proceeded hart becomei as s oid and of no effect, can Got ernment— what would have been bef ‘v ashington? He would the licence n co conductha d expired of f ourw 14mbi minister I ' have written to the consul, saying— You have been too I 1 th t .., : the captain of the ship, y neg ec lag to renew t ss er at . ~ .licence, lire, been placed in au illegal position. You h ave b e en too hasty in demanding redress ressfrom the governor of Lower Carolina—make an apology as soon as you can." N e w, what was the °induct of S.r John Bowring at Hong K o ng ? After telling Mr. Parkes that the licence had ex. pired, and that the Arrow had no right to h o i st the Bri tish flag, what did Sir J. Bewring say? " But th e C h i nese itniethleicTeninlcee.3"newWshpaenpelr fi h r a s i t r n e o ad k I L ° a lv t i e le I did not believe the fidelity of that copy, and sent for a copy of the Gazatc in ced er th at 1 might read the flicial document; and alwas wishing to savethe o character of an absent man, and believing that it must have been penned in a moment of hallucination I must .'ay , that it is themost flagitious public document I ever read. (Cheers.) The statement itself being published revealsthe state of mina, which warrants you in sa . '-,. ccompels on to say, that the statement is false, because I an there falsehood, and a disposition to profit by it. I have fre quently complained that the public documents laid befiire us are presented in a mutilated shape. I " I"Ys n v il c n w ot w th h e suspicion any letters headed "extracts." Wl] h Y aVturent, in right hon, gentleman at the head of the at d l e east that revising these letters, omit that letter, or ' nit his own por tioncre- dit of it ? For the credit of the country et.:all events let it I wish he had done so. (S'' , Estrus h ere to follow out the be well understood that if we ih u t . tt upon no bttter founda policy adopted by Sir J. 13ftwor;ciur taking upon ourselves tiou than that, the very f his l'Aee.ds makes us share the guilt. the responsibility of with ' this transaction of the At row are Now, sir, cuup doubtjed whether the vessel, when she was questions of lours flying, or had an Ennlish waster boarded, had her no lours - altogether • .1 I think that Is a seco..,..ary matter, on hoar' s . ' hy na , jost read. But I atn by no means ea atter ,w h , at - — have in these respects better ground for our tisfieo drat We gentlemen who diny,s, lion. procee a will observeju the fist letter written by Mr. iste denc- , ( i n the l e • boarded there Bi Parkes that wu et was 'roamed there was muter - , tis h esptain on hoard, and hat he remonstrated ag the act of the Chinese, andthat the British flag was flying- N o ce, the captain, in his own declaration, sa y s thathe was n ot t n board the Arro w , b u t t h at h e was breakfasting on board another vessel. That h o wever, is a matter of se condary importan ce. B ut there are two illegalities to contend with in this matter—first, the constitutional law laid down by Lord Lyndhurst, when he says--"Y_011 cans not give right t o t h e Chinese shipowner as against his own Government." And Commissioner Yeh seems to have arrived at the same conclusion. I do not see how we could invest ourselves with the power at Hong Kong of annexing the whole mercantile marine, and ..absolv in them from allegiance to t heir Government. Jut, be sides that illegality, there is another ; even admitting that , 20 10 20 10