The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-06 00:00:00

THE SEIZURE OP BRITISH PROPERTY ON
BOARD FEDERAL VESSELS.

The Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Com-
merce had a long and animated discussion on this subject
yesterday in connexion with the recent seizure and &Arun-
tion of the Tonnawanda and Manchester by the Confederate
steamer Alabama. The commercial law committee of the
chamber, to whom the subject bad been remitted for con-
sideration, brought up for confirmation a very strong resolu-
tion, protesting against the acts in question as a flagrant
violation of international law, and galling upon the govern-
meet to obtain redrew. This resolution some of the mem-
bers thought went too far, and urged that all the chamber
was called upon to do was to ask the opinion of the legisla-
ture upon the point.
Mr. CUIPSILL thought that it wag unreasonable to sup.
pose that a belligerent would avoid capturing an enemy's
vowel containing property worth thousands of pounds on
board, merely from the fact that there was 10/. worth of
neutral property also on board. Neutrals must make up
their minds to suffer more or lees injury in war.
The CIIAIRMAD observed that according to one of the beet
authorities, wherever neutral property was destroyed from
exposure in an enemy's ship, the neutral must bear his own
lose exactly in the same way as if a cannon-ball were to
kill a neutral passenger who happened to be on board an
enemy's ship. The only question in the present case was,
whether the Confederate government was hound to pay for
British property destroyed. It was one peculiarly of in-
ternational law, and be thought the chamber was therefore
not called upon specially to interfere in the matter. If the
Alabama had fired upon the Manchester :rod sank her,
there could have been no claim sustained on the part oe
neutrals. _ _

Mr. S itannoxt informed the chamber that his firm had
sulfated by the seizure and destruction of the Manchester,
and had communicated with the Foreign•ofco on the sub-
ject.
After further discuasion the resolution of the com-
mercial law committee was oonsideralAy modified, in fact
reduced to a motion to rarest that the opinion of the
government upon the position and means of redress of the
owners of Mush property which bad been debtroyed under
the circumstances stated, might be made known to the
chamber.

MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ON THE Poon.—Yester-
day, at the Fox Tavern. Paul-street, Finsbury, an inquiry
was held by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputycoroner,
touching the death of Richard Clarke, aged two yews. Mrs.
11. Clarke, 94, Paul-street, said that on Thursday last her
eon became iIL He had received a fall some time before.
On Friday morning, at half-past 3 o'clock, she noticed the
child getting stiff, and her husband ran for Ik. Buss. TM
doctor did not come until after some delay, occasioned by
his getting her husband to sign a paper binding himself to
pay fie. The child war dead when the doctor came. Wit-
ness's husband was • mechanic. Mr. Henry Bus,
M.R.C.S., said that at the time in question Mr. Clarke
called him up and told him he was wanted to ses the add,
but did not say it was dying. Witness said, Are you
=pay? Have you got be. The father said he
to
and witness asked him for some security. Wit-
was wrote out the following. "1 pronnte to pay Dr. Bum
ss. for visiting my child." When the father affixed his
mark to the promise witness went to see the child, whom he
found dead. Witness was paid thee, Saturday night.—
A Juror : Your conduct was very meicenary.—Witnass
Yee ; but lam obliged to act thus to guard against imposi-
tion. I have to live by my trefession. I have often been
called up at sight and defrauded of all payment. Thus
that cannot pay ought to apply to the parish doctor. If a
person asked me to go purely as au act of charity I would
attend. Deceased died from effusion on the brain.—The
Coroner having summed up, and remarked that the course
pursued by Dr. Buss was not peculiar to that gentleman,
the jury returned the following special verdict:—" That de-
ceased died from effusion of serum on to the brain ; and the
jury desire to express their regret that medical men should
refuse to attend the poor without guaranteed payment ;
and the jury consider that, as such refusals are frequent,
the parish authorities should take it upon themselves to pay
the fees for first visits of medical men to poor persons in
urgent fuses ; sod the jury are of opinion that such a pro-
vision would be the means of saving life."
THE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH
WESTERN RAILWAY. —The breakamao, Joseph Buckingham,
who was so severely injured in the accident which happened
on the West London line of the London and North Western
Railway, on Tuesday morning, expired yesterday morning
at twenty minutes to 1 o'clock, in St. Mary's Hospital.
Paddington.
Cumin° or rns Quarue's Pamir. —By the closing
of the Queen's Prison, • saving of 3,5001. bas been effected.
The officers of the prison have just been pensioned.
Gentlemen who require good and fashionable
Dress caa depend oe the best Yagoda!' and latest style (of which
specimen garments are kept for Inspeet,on or sale;, at Haan.
ton antisement.d I:titmice's, 106, Strand, opposite liall.--(Adver-
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