The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.
COLLISION IN THE ATLANTIC BETWEEN
THE STEAMERS EUROPA AND ARABIA.
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(BY ATLANTIC TICLIGBAPH.)
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The Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
having received from Newfoundland the following MEM.
genre, have felt it their duty to publish it with • view
to allay the anxiety of the friends of the passengers by
the Europa and Arabia. Further particulars have been
asked for, and will be published if received :
The Europa and the Arabia have had • collision.
One of them has put into St. John's, Newfound.
hind.
No lives lost. All well.
PURTHICR PARTICULARS.

The Arabia in oolllsion with the Europa off Cape Ram
on Saturday last.
The Arabia on her way to New York slightly injured.
The Europa lost bar bowsprit and autwater, stern
sprung.
She will remain at St. John's, Newfoundland, ten
days from the 16th.
The Persia mils at ,R. John's, for mails and pas.
wingers.
No loci of life or limb.

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The message *eking Newfoundland forfurther portion-
lan wu despatched from London at 6 o'clook Friday
evening, and the shove reply waa received back how
Newfoundland at 7.10 pin.

The commercial advice. from New York this week de.
scribe a slight inoreue of activity in the demand for itn•
ported goods u Well as for some articles of produce, such
u sugar, Mo. Generally, however, business of all kinds
continued to show great dulness. With regom to "au,
lative seouridee, the cry is the same as on this side "The public have been so deceived and ruined by rail.
way inanagement that not even low pekoe and an un•
paralleled abundance of money will indnee them to pur•
ohms." There was no alteration in the rats of exchange,
and moderate remittance' of gold are likely to be niatie
by each steamer, The next departures would be the
Northern Light, from New York, and the Burope, from
Boston.
TRIO RIGHT Or VlSlT.—n•underitanding which has
been arrived at between the British and American
Govern:l:action the subject of the identillootion of the
nationality of vessels is bawd upon the soceptanee by the
British Government of the doctrines laid down by Mr.
Secretory OM in his letter to Lord Napier of the 10th
of April, 1858. In that letter Mr. Can, borrowing an
Ulusk.ation from one of Mr. Webster.' letters on the
subject, written 10 par" ago, thus states the osie"A. the identity of a person mutt be determined by the
offloer bearing a process for lii" arrest, so must the
national identity of a vessel be determhied at the like
hazard to him who, doubting the dm she displeit,

Boarchei her to ascertain her true character. There, no
doubt, may be circumstances which would go far to
modify the oomplainte e nation would have • right to
make for such • violation of It* sovereignty. If the
boarding officer had jest ground for suspicion, and de-
ported MITI: with propriety in the performance of his
task, dol no injury and pesoeful y retiring when
'Aided of error, no nation would inake such an sot
the subject of aerioua reclamation." This version of the
law, as laid down by Mr. Oa" might well be sooeptee
by the British Government, since it grates, in fact,
more than that Government has ever &aimed. They
have limited themselves to claiming • right of visit,
merely; a right to call upon the captain of the vessel
to show his papers, expressly restricting themselves
from any right to press thin visit to the extent of a
search, which they have admitted to be exclusively a
belligerent right. Mr. Cass, it will be seen, while in-
sisting that visitation, under the circumstance,. suppoesd,
snail be regarded not as • right, but ehould the vessel
turn out to be American, as an excusable trespass, con.
cedes at the same time that in such cases the boarding
officer is not limited to what he may discover by casting
his eye over the papers and the deck of the vessel, or
the cabin, should he be invited to enter it, but that he
may proceed to the extremity of lifting the hatches,
overhauling the ...largo, and mustering the crew—in one
word, of search. Search, and not visit, is the word that
Mr. Cass employs to describe the operation of identify-
ing the flag, which operation, while insisting that it
must be undertaken at the risk of the party who em-
ploys it, lie admits at the same time to be an act
which, if entered upon in good faith, on reasonable
grounds of suspicion, and conducted without unneces-
sary violence, or injury to the vessel or its crew, no
nation would make the subject of serious reclamation.
'Chia einployment by Mr. Cass of the word "search"
instead of " visit " was no doubt deliberate and in-
tentional, since in his famous pamphlet against the
Quintuple Treaty he argued at length that the dim-
Unction net up by Lords Palmerston and Aberdeen be-
tween the right of visit and the right of search was
wholly illusory and unfounded, and that visit, to be of
any practical efficacy, must, in many cases at least, be
pushed to the extent of search, and must therefore be
regarded as in substance the same thing. In accepting
Mr. Cass's version of the law, the British are thus en-
abled to push the process of verifying the flag further
than they have hitherto claimed to go, for, however„ it
may be argued that theoretically visit mid search amount
to the seine thing, there is a very palpable practical
difference between calling on the captain of a ship to
show his papers and proceeding to the extremity of
searching his vesseL