The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

Other hand press our immunities as neutrals beyond
that point affixed as their boundary by international.
law. These observations are induced in consequence
of the rather singular exposition of maritime inter-
national law made on Monday eveuing in the
House of Lords, by the Marquis of Clanrica.rice.
He laid it down, on the authority of an Aniercan
Secretary of State, that a blockade should be con-
fined to particular ports, and could not be extended
to a line of coast, and that of necessity the assumed
blockade of the greater portion of the eastern coast
of the United States was illegal. No principle,
however, has been more clearly established than
that a Power may keep in blockade as great an
extent of coast as it pleases, provided such blockade
is efficient. It is needless to observe that this prin-
ciple has been frequently acted upon by this country
wh n at war, and, should the occasion present
itself, will be acted upon again.
HERALD.—The vote of Monday evening, which
has acquired for the higher education of the country
the site and buildings used for the International
Exhibition, was not one of those decisions which
might have been expected to have elicited so warm
a debate or so near a division. In sober fact there
was nothing else open to the House. It was placed
in circumstances where practically no discretion
was left it, for the result was of the logic of events
and had been prejudged by the very necessity of
things. Hence Mr. Gregory's long speech WAS
marked by an utter oblivion of the whole question
of merits, and amounted to no more than some very
emphatic " abuse of the defendant." Grant all that.
the hon. member for Dublin alleged against the
contractors, managers, directors, and secretaries
concerned in the societies and institutions brought
under review—what then ? Grant that the " clique
established at Kensington" is " self-seeking,craving,
meddling, flattering and toadying," and that " these
managers are well known for exclusiveness, class
combinations, servility, and extravagance," arid are
either hunters after honours and court favour, or are
small clerks who have promoted themselves into
commissioners, councillors, or dispensers of honours
in science and art ;" in what way does all this vitu-
perative description meet the well-established facts
in the higher educational necessities of the country
The National Gallery is one of those tight fits which
menaces the suffocation of the two arts it was
meant to encourage. Our Collection of Natural
History insists on an asylum, which cannot reason-
ably be denied it. A Patent Museum is of
urgent necessity; and the annual receipts from the
Patent Office leave an unapplied surplus sufficient
to pay for its erection. Then there are such collec-
tions as that in Lincoln's-inc-fields, left by Sir J..
Soane; the collection of old masters at Dulwich;
and of portraits in Great George-street ; the
Museum of Naval Models at Somerset House; with
some collections at Whitehall and elsewhere, whose
public value would be trebled by their union,
some of which require to be at once removed by
the Government, and the rest are open to removal
under the easiest of Government arrangements. It
would be easy to sum up the hundred reasons which
show that not only must something be done, but
something on a large scale, to meet the require-
ments thus growing upon us by the rapid develop-
ment of art and science, and the equally rapid dif-
fusion of a popular appreciation of their uses ; but
no better demonstration, perhaps, is needed than
the fact of Ministers coming down to the house, a
year ago, and undertaking the responsibility of ask-
ing for a vote of half a million of money for a con-
struction to receive the existing collection of natu-
ral
history. If we were at our prayers for a con-
cession to meet such exigencies we could hardly
desire anything better as a gift than that we might
acquire ready at our hand the edifice used for the
International Exhibition on terms making it ours
at about half its value. By the bargain made by
the house we practically receive as a present the
quarter of a million contributed by the visitors last
summer, and which, under a recent arrangement, is
made to cover, within £BO,OOO, the cost of the
original construction. We obtain the land again
at a price less, probably by one-half, than what a
like space as eligibly situate would have cost any-
where else e and the only question really that re-
mained to puzzle the good sense and exercise the
high principle of members in the discussion of Mon-
day night was, whether they would consent, under
the appeal of much argumentative statement and
great oratorical eloquence, to take the goods the
gods had been thus liberally purveying for them.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LEEDS-TUESDAY.

To-day there was a moderate supply of English and
foreign wheat, which sold at the extreme rates of the pre-
vious week.

LYNN-'

There has been a fair
at fully hut week's prices.
White ..46s to 503
Red ..
Beans .36s to 388
New —B to —a

in wheat to-da'