Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-13
Right OGSearCh.

In the British House of Lords. on the night o
the 22d ult. the Government secured decide,
triumph on the Right of Search question. 1t wa
party rtraggie; and majority Of Fifty -four de-
clared in favor Of Lord Clarendon aud his col
leagues The debate was very long and very abl'
and in the course of the discussion. the views
and opinions of American juris,s and American
Courts we're freq uenily alluded to in connection
With the articles in reference 20 Maritime Law
incorporated in the Treaty Of Paris. The leader
of the Opposition in this case was Lord Colches-
ter, who assumed the ground, that the Pleuipo-
tes,sisries assembled in Paris for totally different
purposes. had undertaken the settlement of a sub
ject which had no legitimate connection with the
anomalous proceeding. and what made It still
more Objectionable was. that there was reason to
apprehend that the question had not been dis
cussed with the elaboration due to its impor-
tanee. but that, the contrary. II had been bur
ried over With unbeooming expedition. The
whole matter, he said, has arranged between the
9Th and the 10th Of April, and when allowance
was made for the delay of sending home for in
struotions, it would be seen that the question
could scarcely have occupied the attention of the
conference for more than two days Moreover. ii
was urged that the power Of the Crown to assent
10 changes introduced under such circumstances
might hereafter be called in question II was not
quite so clear that sach declaration As that to
which the plenipo,cntiaries had subscribed their
signature would he binding in court ofla The
maritime law, which was portion Of the law of
nations, had frequently been asserted to be also
part of the law Of the land, and il remained to be
secn whether British plenipoteniaries could sign
away the Law Of the land without the consent Of
Parliament. Lord Colchester concluded by NOV
ing the following resolutions;
." That the mos, eminent jurists of all ages have
accepted principle Of international law that the
right ofcapturing onemys goods on board OF neu-
trial vessels is inherent in all bellgcreut Powers that
the maintenance Of this right is of essential impor-
lance, and its abandonment of serious injury to a
Powerw whose main reliance is on her naval superior
ity
"That Great Britain consequently -although oe-
oasionally waving the exercise of the right by speei
fc troatieshas Invariably refused TO recognize the
abandonment Of n principle which successive Gov
crnments have concurred in considering identified
with her national greatness
"That this House deeply regrets that principle
so long and so strenuously maintained should in the
recent conferences ut Paris have been suddenly aban
doned, without the previous sanction or knowledge
of Parliament, by plenipoteutares assembled for the
purpose of discussing the terms on which peace with
Russia nigh, be concluded, and the affairs of the
East satisfactorily adjusted
The points at Issue are ofmuch practical i'm
-portonoe 10 VS. of the United States. Tho tri-
umpho Of the Ministry must be accepted as an
evidence that the abandonment Of the Right of
Search in the Peace Treaty. is to remain aban-
doned.