The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS•--Last Evening.
The Lor.ti Chancellor took his seat at the usual hour.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Fine;fi Hattor's Estate bill was read a second time.
THIRD READINGS.

''he North Staffordshire Railway (Additional Powers)
and the Exeter Gaol bills were read a third time and
passed.

THE CASE OF MR. BISHOP.

The Marquis of NORMANBY said he had given notice
that he would ask for the production of a despatch made by
Sir James Hudson on the 25th of February, which was
quoted by his noble friend (Earl Russell) as ecntaining the
assurance on the part of the Piedmontese Cabinet that Mr.
Bishop would be liberated. He understood when he gave
notice that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would
have no objection to produce the despatch.
Earl RUSSELL said he was about to present to the
house, by command of her Majesty, extracts from the
despatch referred to by the noble marquis. The promise of
pardon to Mr. Bishop by the Italian Government was to
be carried into effect on the first favourable opportunity,
and that promise was, as soon as brigandage was sur.-
pre,sed and the state of the country wov-id permit.
He had seen a report in the newspapers, 'out b.e had no
positive information on the point, tat the ex-King of
Naples was about to quit Rome, a'./d if that was so he had
no doubt it would go a great W`ety to put down brigandage.
With respect to the health 'of fir. Bishop, General Mar-
mora had sent a medics.' gentleman to see Mr. Bishop,
and he had reported t' -,iat that gentleman's health would not
suffer provided he was not subjected to any severe labour.
That opinion 1,,,td been sent to Turin, and he believed that
no fears n tea be entertained as to the treatment Mr. Bishop
would receive.

THE BRAZILS.
Ti'Q Earl of MALMESBURY gave notice that on Fri-
day next in calling attention to our relations with the

Brazils, he should move for copies of any papers showing
on what grounds the Government of the Brazils resisted
the claims for £3,200 compensation.
THE WAR IN AMERICA.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for copies of
any report that may have been received from the Admiral
commanding her Majesty's squadron on the North Ameri-
can and West India station concerning the protection from
seizuz e or visitation afforded to British merchantmen by the
Ariadne and other of her Majesty's ships or gunboats or
otherwise, and asked what had been the result of the
remonstrances made to the United States Government by
her Majesty's Minister against the seizure of certain British
vessels. He dwelt with particular emphasis on the recent
condemnation of the Adela as contrary to all principles of
international law, and considered it was the duty of the
'Government to demand her restoration. The noble marquis
contended the country ought to afford adequate protection
to her commercial marine, and denounced the seizure of
vessels bound to Matamoras and Nassau, as a means of
monopolising the trade to the first mentioned place for the
benefit ~)f New York shippers, a state of things which
ought not to be recognised..

'Earl RUSSELL said that his noble friend had given
them a lecture on international law, in which he had not
quoted a single dictum of an American judge in support of
statements which he had made entirely out of his own head.
As to the assertion of his noble friend that the captain of
an American man-of-war was bound to give up a vessel
which he had seized because the reasons assigned for seizing
her were incomplete, he (Earl Russell) would not go so far;
neither would he say the contrary. But if the ship were
taken before a prize court, and, upon examination of her
cargo, goods were found in her sufficient to condemn her, he
(Earl Russell) would say that she might be condemned. His
noble friend said that vessels should be taken in the act

of attempting to break the blockade, and not on the open

sea; but he (Earl Russell) said that it was not necessary
the ship should be taken in the very attempt to break the
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blockade. If she were taken with contraband of war in the

neighbourhood of the blockaded place she might be con-

demned. His noble friend said that the object of Ameri-

can Government was to vex our commerce and embarrass

our legal trade. But in another part he told them of the
successful breaches of blockade effected by British vessels.
The two things did not go well together. For his (Earl

Russell's) own part, he was not inclined to attribute to the

.American Government an hostile attention. But he had

thou; ht it necessary to send instructions to Lord Lyons to

state to the American Government that such a feeling was
entertained in this country. He had no special information

to give his noble friend ; but he could not agree in his
Munro doctrine as to the right of blockade of a coast.

IVe had blockaded the coast of France from Brest to

Dunquerque, and we had blockaded 2,000 miles of the
American coast, and we would still hold the right to do so
if we were at war again with America He had taken the
opinion of the law officers of the Crown upon the construc-
tion of the treaty of Paris, and they held that under it
the blockade of the Confederate coast was consistent. It
might not be well to be too ready to resent an imaginary
affront ; but the noble lord might rely upon it that he
would not be satisfied with any decision that was not
based upon justice.
The Duke of SOMERSET said that the admiral on the
station (Admiral Milne) informed him that his officers bore
testimony to the uniform courtesy which they had ex-
perienced from the officers of Admiral Wilkes's squadron.
Those papers to which there was no olajection would be laid
upon the table.