The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER It

IT may fairly be assumed that the Prime Minister
of this country, in addressing the second mercantile
city of the empire on a point of vital importance to
maritime commerce, would not speak hastily or
unadvisedly. If we are to give Lord Pat txuarox
the benefit of this very reasonable presumption, it is
impossible not to be struck with the important* of
certain expressions reported to have fallen from him
In the course of his address to the merchants of
Liverpool. Most people will probably be found
to agree that one of the most valuable fruits of the
Treaty of Park was that declaration of maritime
law by which the powers represented at the Congress
agreed to fix on a mew Louis the rules of future war-
fare by sea. The final abolition of the barbarism
practice of privateeriog, and the authoritative pet
mitigation by England, as well as by the Continental
Powers, of the role that " free ships make free
goods," was deservedly hailed as a decisive step in
advance—as a material approximation towed' the
full recognition and ultimate establishment of the
principle that the laws of war on the high ems shall
be identical with the laws of war on land.

Lord Rusin/nor, if we rightly apprehend the
Pope of hie obstrations it Liverpool, is quite
prepared to go a step further in the emu
dietetics. The role that " free ships make free
goods"—in other words, that all property, ex-
cept contraband of war, whether belonging
to the enemy or not, is safe, in times of war, under
the protection of the neutral flag—is a vut concession
to the interests of neutral commerce. The abolition
of privateericg is an equally great concession to the
interests of belligerent commerce. But another and
a most important step remains to be taken, before the
laws of war by sea are placed on tissue foods, as
the laws of war by land. That step is the bold and
unequivocal assertion of the principle that the private
property of the enemy, sasseerriedeas beret hie owe
leading sA4as, shall be safe's ban melselellies hp As
armed cruisers of the adverse belligerent as the
Treaty of Paris has declared that it hener
forth shall be from the attacks of privation.
War by laud, as curled on in civilised times,
is generally marked by an entire abstinence from the
plunder or destruction, for mere gain, of any private
property of the seamy. In eases of necessity the
rule of course is different; any property interfering
with the due execution of military operations would,
of curet, be iorantly and justifiably demolished;
say property the forcible acquisition of whisk mu
rendered necessary by the imperious nigger, of an
empty military chest, and a deficieat cosiekearlat,
would of course be token without scruple. But all
wanton and unnecessary destruction, all plunder for
the sake of mere gain and booty, is now sternly
repudiated by the established rules of land warfare,
except in the solitary instance of a fortified place
takes by assault, after a refusal to capitulate. In
maritime warfare, on the putrefy, all the poverty of
the enemy that floats on the high sees has hitherto
been regarded as fair spoil. On the trackless desert
the ocean the warfare of the politest salmi on the
earth has been carried on in the spirit of Beduins.
Indiscriminate plunder and unrestraised spoil have
been its avowed &jute, and the chivalrous and
Christian warriors of modern times have, under the
name of prize-money, shared amongst themselves the
pillage of the trader with the same atter unecoscious-
sees of wrong se the Viking, of old, the Castellon" of
the middle ages, or the Arabs of to-day.
It is high time that a practice so indefensible should,
by the general concurrence of civilised patios., be
abandoned. It is quite clear that this is the opinion
of the present Prime Minims of England. After
referring with laudable satisfaction to those relexa-
dons in the laws of maritime war which were intro-
dined at the commenetenaut of the late ossfliet, Lord
PALMIWITON is represented to have employed the
following remarkable expressions:—"I cannot help
hoping that these relazatices it ANEW 410114fialle may
still further be carried oat, se that In mores of time
those principles which regulate war on laud may he
extended to wars on the seas, and private propetty
may not s►tfer on either side." In the expression
of this hope we cordially sourer. Nothing can
be more mistaken than to suppose that the interests
of England in this matter are opposed to the clear
precepts of civilisation and humanity. History ran.
sot tarnish m with the hetes* easy State that has
owed from war a seek raw than it otbershir
would have done in coneequasos of the private lONS
=stales' by i,e cities' from maritime capture. "V
we look at the example of framer periods," ea Led
PALKEISTON tells the men of Liverpool, "we ilia
sot And that countries were vangaiebed by lams

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