The New York herald., 1862-04-01
THE AMERICAN QUESTION ABROAD
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME Law.

Ehe Fngltsh Radicals on Free Flags the
Right Of Search, and Contra oa nds or
War-The Cabinet Advocates the Old
System and "Short and sharp, Wars
In the House Of Commons l7tb Of March ths sd
urned debate Mr. Horstas motion on the sub,se, Of
International maritime hw N time sf war. was rs
sumed-
Mr.. LINDSAY, on behalf Of the honorable member for
Rochdaie (hr Golden. whose the debate stood
adjourned regretted TO say that friend had
informed him that no suffering from extreme cold
which made him so hoarss utterly incapaciats him
from taking part 10 the debate though he hoped 10 be
able TO do a. later period VI the evening" He there
fore hopod the House would allow him ousr fsw re-
marks on the question now under discassion. lie GER
niny thought his honorable friend (Nr HorsfaI) had
takon the only course which open him aud that n
unsatisfactory he wss quite right staias that opnion
70 the house He (hr Lindsay was one u thoss who
nsa been o. opn,oe ever since bs declaration Of Paris
that sooner or later tbs subject under the
consideration OF the house. Ia the year 1851 he said
thst,hs House would inevitably BE- upoa 70 adopt
Abe proposal, that msrchsndss In should be
- much respected ~ on shore. The
no ls lord at The bead of the government tben
spoke Of the question enc deserving Of tns
gravsst and most Ssbsrats astsution; and ths
noble earl (Russsl spoke Of OF utmoss m.
pertancs. The Merchant Shipping COMMITTEE, which
was granted on his (Mr Lindssys) motion, and pre-
sided over By The President Of the Board u Trade ar
rived st the conclusion that bey could part from 90
important measure without expressing hope that 10
time all private property no, coatraband Of war woud
- respected at And " the House considered the
various changes that had taken place in 1885, and the
bearings OF those changes upon not the shipping
and mercantile interests Of the country bus upen ali
classes in the community, b thought they could hardly
do otherwise than say a. sast that the state OF terss
tonal law as Affecting bei'gercnts and nsutras was H.
defined aud unsasfactory With the permission OF the
House ne would SHOW that ne present state OF things
mics First, u was said thse ships extended over
every sea and required tho proteciea Of our navy
further step in advance shouli strike fatal blow
t the naval power Of England aud commH act OF po
II our power was eur ability 70 destroy the OF
eur enemies. He would doal with thsss arguments.
SSppose a<y q si France Aioo We sAould
s require me protsuion Of s dea al all, for sane man
scod ship roiuaie odreos eseSpt netrai ress and
n~ whole Of paa ssercaniis feet would up IN
sah We should require ,,s dee, to destroy .ss
commerce Of the enemy but tAs enemy would lust act A
ns o. this country would doput their goods
On BOARD neutral vssses where they would liable
70 seizure tHsar, bAar) The aoble lord u the speech
which be made at liverpool and which had already been
,suersd through the lorsas sussaed By ,r,vxs
sas, and that ne hoped the would eouss vhen Dis
2oss between nasoss "esd be dec'a:d BY ths national
aoble lord four or i've years ago. md he hopod a
che same now He believed thstsould be no doub, OF
shs fact that the destruction ~ property
sf Fastening the tsrminatioo OF vars agRrsystsd snd
prolonged thsm: Did any suppose ai s 6srsino Of
Ae Harvey Birch b the Nashville mode tie pyoprieors c
sAai vessel peace. and taat ey svsid moi
yar all he'r eserges asaina The government si eare
scicked decdp (Hear hear) The right horofsbie zen
tsman the Secretary for War said that though thes on
tered into tho Convention Of Paris not 10 be sup
posed that that would be respected In case OF
war. 0 course Il would not 10 tho Of bsiigsrents
II France and England ~ war neither nation would
respect that convention Bat thes other parties 70
that trsatyRussia Austria, Prussia SARDINIA and T,r-
keyand he believed that forty three other States sub
sequsntly gave In thar Adhesion to The articles Of that
convention. The provisions Of thas conven-
tion he supposed would bs observed IN re.
spsct OF all these Powers who were not beili.
gerents in any future war. The Attorney General
stated the other night that although the Of
ehe Paris Convention favorable to neytra carriers
yet that Great Britain, being the porerfu naval
country IN the world would have advansg other
oeserents because her navy being 40 large she could
gvo greater protection TO her merchant shipping than
nst countries could give to theirs. Did the honora
ana esrned gentlemen really think that the feet OF Eng
@and poweun as was, could efciontly protect n,er
commerce IN overr quarter Of The worldp DId he con