The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-24
rHE COHFBDRArB sfKANER NAeHvILLB AsD THE
YANKEH STEAMER TUsoARORA-BEaLARD'sA AP.
PLICATIOn OF HRR NEUTRAL RIGHTS.
From the London Times, Feb. Sd


We do not allow our own little boys to dis.
turb the thorolghiares with squibs and
crackers or the Fifth Of Novem ber, and why
should We submit to be annoyed with the two
guns Of the Nashville or tho 'colam biads''
Of the Tuscarora, eager as these mighty men
Of. war may be to make themselves oisy and
Cisaereeable in tn e neigh Dor ood OF Osborne :
The rule Of in ternational law Is plain enough.
Every nation has the right, If shs likes, Of
giving hospitality to the sh ps. Of. war Of
either or both the bellfgerent powers, and
she may suffer them, or either o. them. to
bring In their prizes and submit them to her
admiralty courts Bnt every nation has a'so
the right to exclude them altOg I'm !ess
where such exclusion world he contrary to
the general d ctates of bumanity
aOnr Government has II ade It's choice, we
think, very wisely, and has excl .nded both
parties. Earl Russel, in this state persr.
measures ont equal measures TO ships OF war
end privateera. He excludes both frcu, all
British. ports for all warlike purposes. If
they come into our waters, except In distress
they are to be warned away. and to depar, in
twenty four horrs. II they are IN distress
they are to &c as soon rs they have htaina1
the repairs and Supplies necessary to enable
them to sail omeward. If any hostile ships
or merchantmen that might be made their
prey, are In the came harbor, they cannot fol.
low them out rnti' twenty four hours ''lavr''
has been allowed 20 tho fugityes. Ali this
Is old law, which has been already enforced
within the French ports wi hout any rrb.ic
declaration such as this new made ny our
Foreign Office.
The comparatively recent appliance of
steam to war shfrs hrs rnade the question of
Goals novelty in onr lr irrational Law Of
Neutrals. The ehyionc idea OF supplying a
ship. war with only coa!e suf q, cient TO take
her to the nearest home port would not meet
the present case, for che wcnld spend these
Goals in cruise and come back for more, be.
ing again In distress. Eui Russell meets
this difficulty by provision that ship-of.
wDr or q privateer shall rot obtain coal
Within the British dominion, even t, take her
home, moro than once I'm three months.
We hope this will put an end to the an nov
ances that occnr in Europe from these traEs
atlantic quarrels.4 II would appear tha. war
steamers, which must leave our ports in
twenty. four hours, and can only come and
coal once ia three months, cannot be so
troublesome. Tho 6ght in the Now World
may 30 mighty, and terrific. and sublime. 1t
may be the real battle Of Armageddon for
au3ht We know. II NAV be like the shock
OF hostile earthquakes. We are constantly
being told how terrible " Ia to BE- when Gen.
NcOlellAn gets we'll and hts army 10 ready.
We are content TO believe or hisoeIisve Il;
but, As 1t comes to us In the Old World, II 10
small n utssnce
uur friends over theWator "ught 70 remsm
Der that We have not the sazne reasons which
they have for enduring each distufhAnc~e.-
fhe revelations made BY MP. UAWss In Con.
GreAs apply 70 America, and not EnRlan0 II
Il pretty clear now that the war OF tAe fsde-
raj Sta tss IL kept mp by notitious public O. /.
thustnsm, FOUNDED upon the kQuaEderinG
among the small class OF political con tractors
and a&itators Of two millions OF doliArs day.
We have great faith 10 the purity and distn.