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tive co-operation with a country which was still one of the
last strongholds of slavery. And it would have been, if
possible, a more bitter aggravation,that we were compelled
to meet our brethren in the United States in arms, they
would have been compelled to meet us with their hands
tied down and overburthened pith the weight of a domestic
calamity. But if the necessity had arisen we should not
have created it ; we could have looked Europe in the face,
and have appealed to Europe and posterity, knowing that
our course, as it was without fear, so it was without re-
proach. But how would it be if, for the sake of selfish
objects, for mean and mercenary motives, in order to obtain
a supply of cotton, we were the first to break through the
established law of nations, and to say that the United
States, as a belligerent, should not exercise the ordinary
belligerent rights. In such a quarrel we could not have
looked Europe in the face, nor appealed to the verdict of
posterity. If any Government had entertained the idea of
such a policy, there was a power in this country which
would have prevented its being pursued. Who had been
the great losers by this war? The capitalists and
artisans of Lancashire. Had they demanded that we
should take steps to break the blockade ? No ; justice and
honour were better estimated amongst those classes who
suffered most from these calamities than any objects of per-
sonal interest which might lead them to provoke an unjust
and unnecessary war. The Government had determined to
maintain our rights, but to respect those of others, not only
because such a cow se conduced to our interest, hut because

it was the course of generosity and justice, and was the
only one cons-stent with the great moral law, that we
should " do unto others as we would that others should do
unto us." (Cheers.)
Lord R. CECIL disputed the doctrine laid down by the
Solicitor-General, that the continuity of a blockade might
be interrupted without affecting its legality. He contended
that, according to international law, the intermission of a
blockade was a fatal accident and that the recognition by us
of an illegal blockade mould create an ill-feeling in the
Southern States.
After a few words from Admiral-WALCOTT, the motion
of Mr. Gregory was negatived.
RELEASE FROM THE SUMTER.

In reply to Mr. Ci Ru-rrrn,
Mr. LA.YARD said the information he had received led
him to believe that the parties who had been landed from
the Sumter at Algiers had been released.

WAYS AND MEANS.
The report was brought up and agreed to.
TRADE MARKS BILL.

Mr. ROEBUCK moved that the following members be
nominated as the select committee on the Trade Marks Bill:
—Mr. Roebuck, Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. Crum-Ewing, Sir F.
Goldsmid, Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Crossley, Sir Hugh
Cairns, Mr. Selwyn, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Hassard,
and Mr. Warner, with power to send for persons, papers,
papers, and records ; five to be the qdorum.
Mr. MOFFATT objected to the nomination on the ground
that there were not less than six gentlemen representing
exclusively the manufacturing interest.
After a short conversation the motion was agreed to.
The house adjourned at a quarter past 11.