The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-04
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.


IL 0AVAS eAN 1M6AANOs
lLondon Correspondence Of the N. Y. Tribune.l
From Cork and Dublin, too, We get news Of
actual riots attendant upon the wedding festivi.
Ties. The following il an authentic narrative o.
me scenes which occurred In Cork on Tuesday
About 10 o'clock in the evening : stone "a,
hurled at the windows of chemist in Winthrop
street, which was Immediately followed bv sev-
eral others, breaking quantity Of glass. When
the crash OF the windows was heard, the crowd
set up cheer. which drew the constabulary to-
wards them. At their approach they were as
saiied With stones and sticks, and groans given
Tor them. Stone throwing continuing, the police
charged and cleared the street at the point of
the bayonet, in doing which several persons
we're knocked down in the rush and injured
When driven out of Winthrop street the mob
ran on to Pembroke street, where thew tool mn
q position opposite the Commercial Hotel. and
stretched from the Hibernian on the one hand
70 the Post Office on the other. Here etope
throwing again commenced, and the place had
70 De cleared by the mounted constabulary.-
After they bad passed on, however, the mob
again returned and battered in the window Of
the hibernian Hotel, and the Illuminated de-
vices outside the house. bif~Sf
The Commercial Hotel was next turned TO.
ana IN less than ten minutes almost every pane
OF glass IN the front, facing Pembroke street was
broken. At times the showers of stones thrown
from hundreds Of hands we're really terrifyine.
breaking in, as they frequently did at one yolley'
the entire sashes Of the window, while othera Of
the stones rebounded of the walls of the house.
fell among the people, inlictiDg in many in.
stances severe cuts and bruises.
A scene OF the utmost disorder here preyail-
ed Numbers Of the people fed terror stricken.
wniie the rufisns Who remained only redoubled
their efforts on beholding the CONSERVATION and
destruction they were causing. Such was the
determination OF the mob, that scarcely any
force could quell them. Although they ran at
the charges OF the constabulary, they returned
and did not stop until they had made almost a
complete wreck Of the windows Of those who il
Illuminated. - aa geGal ND -
The organization of the rioters seemed con>
plete. In one of the rows the Mayor received
some rough usage. At midnight the military
was sent for, and one company -oon arrived.
but their services were not required After
they had retired, however, set Of rufians
broke In the windows of the Grown Solicitor
Two arrests have been made. The city is now
tranquil.
CORRESPONDENTS BETwEIH MASON AID RUSSELL.
We find in the Manchester Guardian of the
18th inst, (receved BY the Asia,) the text Of
VIC correspondence OtlWeSu Earl RUSSELL ana
Mr.. Mason, "Confederate Commissioner, ex-
tending over the period between ApriL 1852.
and the end Of last month. Nj. Nas0n's letters
urge the Government to recognize the Confed-
crate States, and to break the blockade. He
goes into long arguments on international Law !;
but most of Earl Russelrs replies are merely
courteous acknowledgements OF having received
his communications. On the I'd Of August
however. Earl Russell writes: tt
In the face of the fluctuating events of the
war; the alterations of victory and defeat; the
capture of New Orleans; the advance of the
Federals to Corinth, to Memphis, and the banks
Of the Mississippi as far as Vicksburg, contrast
ed on the other baud with the failure of the at
tack on Charleston, and the retreat from before
Richmond placed too between allegations so
contradictory on the part of the contendiDg
powers, Her Msjesty's Government are still de-
TRIMMED to wait" 7F97 aftH sagf ,ssi.s
In the beginning of this year, Nr. Mason ad :
dressed to the Foreign Office letter merely
dated January, 1862" in which he objects to
the views of the English Government on the
subject of blockades. Inreply to this Earl Rus
sell writes: tF s3 ~ Fe8>
II have, in the first place, to assure you that
her Majestys Government would much regret if
you should feel that any want of respect was
intended by the circumstance of q mere acknowl.
edgment of your letter having hitherto been
addressed to you. With regard to the question
contained in it, I have to say that her Majestys
Government see no reason to qualify the LAM
guage employed in my dispatch to Lord Lyons
Of the leth February last. 1t appears to her
Msjesty's Government to be sufficiently clear
that the declaration of Paris could not be in
tended to mean that port must be 60 blockad-
ed as really to prevent access in all winds, and
independently of whether the communication
which might be carried on in dark night, or
by means of small low steamers or coasting craft
creeping along the shore; in short, that it was
necessary that communication with port under
blockade should be utterly and absolutely impos-
sible under any circumstances.
''In further illustration of this remark, may
say there is no doubt that blockade would be
in legal existence although sudden storm or
change of wind occasionally blew off the squad
ron. This is change, to which, in the nature
Of things, every blockade is liable. Such an
accident does not suspend, much less break,
blockade. Whereas, on the contrary, the driv-
ing off a blockading force BY superior force
does break o blockade, which must be renewed
de novo, in the usual form, to be binding upon
neutrsls. The declaration of Paris was, in truth,
directed against what were once termed paper
0lOck0oee;G tn3t Is, OiOcka0tb uot susIaIheo ny
any actual force, or sustained by q notoriously
inadequate naval force, such as the occasional
appearance of man of.war in the of6ng, or the
like The adequacy of the force to maintain
the blockade must, indeed, always, to certain
extent, be one of fact and evidence; but 1t does
not appear that in any Of the numerous cases
brought before the prize courts in America, the
inadequacy of the force has been urged by those
who would have been most interested in urging
it agains. the legality OF the seizure The inter.
probation, therefore, placed by Her Msjesty's
government on the declaration of Paris, was that
blockade, in order to be respected BY neutrals.
must be practically effective. At the time
wrote my dispatch to Lord Lyons, Her hsjesty's
government were of opinion that the blockade
of the Southern ports could not be otherwise
than 80 regarded; and certainly the manner in
which it has since been enforced, gives to neu-
trail governments no excuse for asserting that
the blockade has not been efficiently maintained.
Il lie proper to add that the same view of the
meaning and effect of the article of the declara-
ton of Paris On the subject of blockades which
is above explained, was taken by the represent
tative Of the United States at the Court OF st.
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