Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-27
70 a.res nsws
Halifax, March %.

The steamship America from Liverpool on
the 9th, via Queenstown on the 9th inst, has
arrived at this port. l.
There had been an important debate in the
House OF Commons on the American block
Ade.
Breadstufls quiet.
Provisions quiet and dull.
Consols % Ia a % 8 s for money.
Screw steamer Spartan, bound to Halifax
with military stores, 81, was lost on the pas
sage. Seven persons we're drowned, includ-
ing Capt, Hand of the 6sl Regiment, wife
and child.
The proceedings of the British Parliament
on the 9th inst. were of slight Importance.
The House Of Commons passed number |
Of important votes on the army estimates
Among the tortiheahoQ votes was one Of
SIX thousand pahnds for the defence of the
River Mercy.
In the House Of Commons on the 7th inst,
Mr.. Gregory, pursuaat to notice, called the
attention OF the House 10 the blockade OF
the Southern ports, and moved f'.r. copy OF
any correspondence on the subject subse
quent to the papers already before the House
| He expressed his strong sympathy with the
rugge now going forward in the Conieder-
! ate states, and declared that a separation
of the South Ssom the North and arecon-
struction OF the Union ~are the only means
by which they coull hope 20 see slavery
abolished in America. He contenoc d ina, the
efficiency Of the blockade OF the Sou,"ern
ports was a qut ston OF great importance to
England and to Europe, and he asserted that
our recognition of 1t in its present state, had
| a.. Of
juUsts.
Mr.. Geo. Bentwlck seconded the motion.
| The reunion OF the Northern and Southern
States, he regarded as an utter impossibilty.
! The Northern States could not complain OF
the recognition OF the Southern Contederacy
when they remember that they received
their origin from successful secession from
the Government of this country.
| Mr.. Foster denied that the blockade was
iuefiecsive, and stated that the list OF up
wards Of 500 vessels which hal been handed
in by MIR. Mason, as list OF tie vessels
which had broken the blockade, had, on ex-
animation, dwindl d down TO nineteen and
most of Ihese had escaped on dark and stormy
nights, thus evincing the srIngehcy rather
than Ineficiency of the blockade. He also
remind. the House that during the war be-
tween Great Britain and her revolted colo
MES in Amerc,s no less than 500 privateers
succeeded in getting out of American ports.
He warmly euloglsed the conduct of Her
Msjesty's Government in reference to Amer
lea, and said their forbearance and firmness
had been the means of preventing one OF the
most deplorable wars in WHICH it was pos
sble We could be engaged. He trusted that
\ no temptation, not even the sufferings of q
portion of the population would induce tn,
Government TO depart from tn strict neu
trail Y hitherto observed.
Sir James Ferguson commended that with
out declaration of war there could be NJ
legal blockade, and called on Her Msjest.
10 interfere in the matter. BY sancionins
the continuance of an illegal blockade the,
we're virtually departing from the profession
of neutrality and assisting the stronger
power.
Mr.. Mines could not believe in the hna
dissolution of the great American Union, an
so long as it existed he deprecated any al
tive interference by the British governmer
in the struggle now taking place.
MIR. Lindsay quoted from several letters
had received from America in proof of b
assertion that the blockade was a mere p;
: per blockade, and that it had been broke
} | nearly one hundred times by vessels tradir
, regularly between the Southern States an
Cuba.
. The Solicitor General was of the opinio
, that it was the duty of the government
maintain, as they had hitherto done, stri
and impartial neutrality between the conte1
ding parties With regard to the blockat
\ its efficiency must be judged by Great Br
ain by those principles of international la
J. which had been laid down by the most di
q tinguished iurists, and which had been inv
4 riably acted on when questions OF blockat
:. had arisen. England had as strong an int
9 est as any country in the world in maintai
ing the rights of blockade by belligere
= power, and she was bound to exercise Il
greatest caution before she took any cour
- which might ultimately destroy the value
j. maritime supremacy, that great aim on viii
y her Independence and ST. ength had been {
= tablished.
The Hon. gentleman entered into lengt
argument 10 the course ct which he quot
d numerous precedents to show that the pr
s. emit blockade was as efficient % other bloc
Is AIDES had been in former years, and that
N would be a violation both of internatio,
~ law and of the principles of neutr atty
= break it.
" He complimented the speech of Mr. +
ter, asserting that the facts the Hon. me
M Der had laid before the House were who
re unanswerable,
OF The returuu received by the Governmt
- fully establish the accuracy of his statist
rs He proved convincing that there had O
n been one or two instances, and those too, |
,ss der cover of right in which the blockade
been successfully run. He had failed
gather from the Hon. Member from Galv
!, what was the precise end he wished to alta
TIC Did he wish this country to dictate to
United States the manner in which bellig
tie ent operations, so far as the blockade
concerned, ought to be carried on, and tn
,ly offer was not accepted to establish an ara
n neutrality, and by force break through I
nd destroy the obstacles which the United ST.
had placed to the access Of our merch