The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1862, Page 2

2 North would be unreasonable to repard recognition ag @ | ceased, and the subject could not be jaration of war or eveu ag ap adrent. “eo London Nexs points out that by the numer- ous recently delivered by members of Parlia- ment, Mr. Gladstone seems to have made few proselytes ‘aunong the Jutelligent members to the Confederate cause. MR. GLAPSTONE’S EXPLANATION. Mr. Gladstone again explains his seutiments on the | Presiden’ Amerioan question, as stated in bis recent speech at castle, The following letter is in response to one from a | "és Manchester merchant who complained to Mr, Gladstone | pulsary .culisoment of New that his remarks haa misied not only himself, but the whole commercial community of Manchester:— No. 11 Dowmne Srewsr, Oct, 18, 1 862. Sim—I nm directed by the Chancellor of the Excheq) to acknowledxe bo agreas with y ing to all pub of the Crown. He holds b: his opinion at Leith nine months ago, to the eilect the Southern States of America were in earnest the gie on the part of the Northern Siates was hope! er sor letter of the 1hth, and to state that as to the grave responsibility attach ia0lf fully responsible for having deciared that surug- 8, and againat Newcastle, lat week, to the effect tiat the con- er federation which has been formed uv Terson Davis has shown ilself to be sufficiently supphed with the ei@ments which make a jon and with the will and »wer to defend its independent exisionce, He caunot, wover be reaponstble for the inf rences which ‘our letter, you appear to bove drawn Bis" statementstho ‘More oo, as choy migh » from from it, he inks, baye been checked by sttiention to other por- of his deciarations concerning America on the same occasion , ~conorivable cirewmsiances, be taken by the Powers of And goverally, he in which he referred to stops tat might, under desires mo to remark that to form. opinions upon ‘questions vf policy, t» announce them to the world, and to take or be a party to taking any of the Steps necessary for giving them eflect, arc mnatters which, though concected together, are in themselves dis stinct, and which may be soparated by intervals of time longer or.shorier, according to the ioular circumstances of the case. As you inform the Chancellor of the Exchequer that your im;reasioe are shared that you are at liberty to make proper of this ietter others, Tam to add atever use you think 1am, sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES L. RYAN, 1—— E— , Ea, Opinion of British Legislators, SPERCH OF MR. LINDSAY, M. P. [From the London Herald, Vet, 20, A lary number of the members of the Chectecy Agri cultural Association dined togetier last might in the Town. Hall, Captain Saunders in the chair, Among the guests were Mr, W. 8. lindsay, M. P., Mr, Briscoe, M. P., Bir. Gregson, M. P., Lieutcnabt Maddox, &e. Mr. Livpsay, M. P. zopenking at the dinner table, eaid:— e On bis journey down bad read a speech recent livered at au agricultural dinner, by a very sagacious and B very cautious statesman—sir Cornewall ‘Tho right honorable gentieman appeared to be somewhat tly de- Lew Oriticising, although he did net make eny direct allusion to the remarks of his honorab'e colleage, the Chancellor of the Exchejuer. Perhaps some people might considering the position of the Chancellor of thi chequer as a leading member of the Cubinet, that very imprudent in him t utter the remarkable which feli from him at Newcastie. orable gentieman said that Jefferson Davis had think, ie EXx- it was made a ation of the South, he must have spoken the sentiments of those whom he was ardressing, for the remark was received with immense chering. r very different politics reiterated these sentiments U betore yester opinions may be with regard to the recognition hereafter of the Southern States, that Jefferson aad his colleagues have made the Soothern an indenendent nation. think that there words of Mr. Gladstone than some suppose. I think that when humanity wil! demand thot thé great Powcraof was more shall step forward to stay the fierce carnag: that is going on, vn the family of nations a people who have and recognise shown themselor (0 be a nation, England shoul Lond cheers.) I snoun to nay thai y at Southampton, he also was received with great cheeriug. We must all tecl, whatever our (Cheers.) When a nobleman of he day now or Davis people (Cheere.) Tam disposed to meaning in people the day is not far distant the may donot do 0 alone; that could noc be expected ct her, But T have good reason to believe that some, « least, of the great Powers of Europe have felt for some time that th rederacy onght to do v@eeived into the family of mations, (Chocrs.) An ‘© not received inte the family of uations, | bay owe that the barrier w 8 the way is aay uf te gr mous Cabinet of Eugland, but is a scclton of that Chat the recognition of the Southern States by tu Vowers of Europe is delayed greater ci satdinel e groe thant peo- é ple supposo by that section of the Cabinet to which T aim alluding (Hear, hear.) the words o Lewis were, indeod, remarkable. extwat opposed to tie views of his eminent remarked that, according to inten Powers of Kurope can hardiy recog: until the Northern States have done so. or rathor if the great Northern States recognize the out! pendent nation, this terrible war @reut sufferers, may not be ended 1 a coutuy. (Hear, hear.) kor ‘The generals in the Norther if we mex qua w is itearr med for # ),000 y Diack and white alti’ ‘world iz laid low in tae Beat. but a desort for the ark€a lullin 4? Nocti vo mare! (Hear, hear.) If these Baaréopinions of a large beartier wele” similar circum. ce of the “nage in this air Sir Cornewall He—evidently to some wait— @ Waii—uatil the acter of ied on? Wy eny they wil carry on AME spice of the Souths ternal earth, re remains nothing h over seciion Of thé Northera pouple—and they appear to me to be the Opinions of the mao, the pe pie in the Nort —we ina; well ask wien is this war to end’ tim is practically sited now. y But L hink the ques- Let as for 2 m mout Con. sider the progross of that war. ‘The Northern Staies asked for « certain Union—to Thi tine to allow th iz the men of the by virtue of of New Orleau, the South they fou A ta restore the ‘nd no ve M: © at yo you pleaso; bat we toll you that wo are determ Fovern ourselves nud Loan indevencdens people. taxos wo wili not pny; your flag we will not h-tst Tawe wo will not respect.” Deon displayed im that great c Cheers.) Positions in the Soath, but the South the dofensive, have hurled them back , is ours, and we will drive our in (Ghoers’) They have shown that they position against the fearful o have shown by their statesn conduct their ails, poses & Datio: ai? » Stand iy and the me that they (Cheers. ) mui Ove party or ehe vt ull like to know, Jooiing at ( oe wiven e rty 18 Lileely to gree wa there ong man 10 a thousand inthis counter v that the broken Union can be restoret? 1 6 broken th back to thoir llc. » superior force of their Whee they got bold Union souti gained pessea. feet—der! with us as ined to Your your Has any Union sentiment None whatever Dy force of arms the Northerners acquired KP D irom hs.” utain their They ac in It is said that the Powers of Lue W is not. (Cueers.) On the and, is there any probubility, Lmay say any pos: , of ue North con quering the South? belie there is'nt the best Proof of that is the language of the pec ie themevives, and above ail the pre ernment of Washington. They admit im this procian a ion tha! they are unable (0 bring the South back to the Unien at their proclamation a proof thot the ae, and that they cannot restore tional means? They eweep away the Hat they proclaim a rermte war, aud deciare that they w! tect the slaves in auy measures which they may «ec cessary for scouring their freedoie—for that is in the offect of the proclamation. fa this state of seeing as we do the contitution trampled wader foot ang what the poopie o/ the Northern States say, ond thal we are suffering to a large extent by the: wie worth lees war, tions of Rurope should step forward ane de tis at a hy Union by uststu- s Corpns act, ul pro: ott FO realy things, hear Feeling ved , thee do think the time has arrived when the na (out e@ercise the power which tary havea perfect vight to excreise, that we should riceive ot the Cour! of St. James the gen: size the » would that ow, I entertained the opinion that such would be tb Tho war is wagel vn tho part of the North ty put hive ai whom ih-re (er millions of independent people have sent here (0 express to us their grievane » and their wrongs. | clang, with the tenac Loud cheess.) Butit may be asked, if the Powors of | desperaic cause. tu bring ways effect down the robeilion, us it is called, and tw restore the Union. Now if the Southern States w: et upow The object of the poop North would be g ne, aad they would bexin to selves, “What are w ‘war for It wo in the Lace of Furope to put down rebel (Cheers.) 1 am ihorvughly conviioed Oifect of the reeoguition of the Southern States wor ewledged the rope, be cons longer » OF to restore | fouit 8 Union which, in tueir opinion i gene and gono fore nid be such that tho s.vord tu the Novia would be loosened in its grep, and that this terrible war would soon (Loud cheers.) of oars."’ Now | do pot recommend that we shoul couse. It may be suid, “Oh, this is no Business id take Any activo me wares to put u stop to the war; bul we are deoply interested in the matter. (Hear, heur.) When Our neighbor's houme is on fire {i is Lime to seo that our own is protected. I can hear my testis endurance of the people m vie menut ducing the present awful aud trying cris not tax the pationce of the pole too long. Smpose Co much upon (heir emturance. The ould nights are © ugly eruul the whiter, (Hear, bo fot ask a man to be alingelner quiet hia family periciong for wart of fool. (iNear, He wil! begin (0 ask biraxell Whe reason why, and w wig when he ouy to the uoble tiring districts But we mut We mmat ve ‘The winter is fast near, gs i the war should tL gia to thing that the government ought to have doas something ab least to show, by the recoguition Soutnere States .'he: Whey do hot appr war, whieh pr ' oo irom obtati a of (ue o% this terrible eraploy ment and giving bred n. (Hear, hear.) This is & queatom whick well beoowe our statemmen Y Must not temper tov long of @ noble people. (Hear, hear.) artisans aud mechanies. sweat from their brow bave beea borne to y, aud have d into 80 Mnany crystals adorning to produce Qed nmaut res oi this covatry. f trust that our states. men in conmdertag bow this wicked war wTec.: such a nobe vie, will consider tbe weliare # hardworking Srtisens of England, who have dove #0 auch to promote aod sproad Ku out the taost remote parts of the world. obvering.) SPESCH OF MAJOR BERNSPORD, M. P. (From the London Herald, Oot, 20.) North Fssex jand s neme and Beglund’s fame ty The ough (Prolonged ervatives held their aanual demopetration, at Castle Hediughum, wear this wwa, last ovening, thovgh the med tual and Conservative Club, which ane cortain decree of celebrity.’ The gathori about wp to the mark of former years im respect numbers and character of the attendauce. ibe chat scoupied by Mr. Hi. 4. Beiwia, who witl pres a conservative candidete for Malton on th tunity, and the borestora att aye: Ducane, Mat; Mr. m o the Hinekiord Agricul- ats & ~ 1862 was w the ir was cneelf as J Ww. \ saaslcandiaaa geod over on such ‘of what be sald ‘an occasion ag the present. The trut been amply on the question twelve tuonths since had pro ured to atempt for au pends wed by recent events; and it could nol now that pi Resmi princi; les and republican institutions had not beaa proved to be the beat safeguards of civil iiber- ty, and had orta‘nty not produced ummcunity from tyrant cal practices, At (his momen’ and for some tine past the the United States had usurped nl daily exer, cised an arbitrary power wirich xo monarch in Enetand he aR ait Te ror nearly. two hundred years. Phe id the habeas corpus, and yrdered the com- hundreds of thow ands of peaceable Slo yecrutt his avmies ; and yet it was only three or four years since, if his recollection was correct Mr. Bright advised all the admirers ef tcue liber levied be demud who were pining under the tyrannical exacti upon them in Fngland to seek real freedom in America. He (Major Beresford) was afraid that those—aud they were not a fow—who were the victims of Mr. Bright 3 © declarations made by any of the advisers | advice-—who were weak enough to yicld to the wild chi- meias of his imagination—inust be rather dubious now with respect to American freedom and {liberal treatment, when they were ordered to proceed from their pesceful homes at A moment’s notice, to leave their bodies to pe- rish m the Southern swamps, or to be shot at on the banks of the Potomac, in order to carry out Mr. Lincoln’s schemes for ensiaving his fellow citizens. Yn the country 80 praised by Mr. Bright free and enlightened citizens isoned at the will of their arbitrary rulers, without being informed of the nature of the accusations against them, and they were kept im dungeons in a horrid and misoreble condition as lorg as vem, peaceable inbabitants of the federal States were taken at a moment’s notice to imbrue their hands in the Dlood of their own countrymen against their best in- alt the while that liberal prin of social priviloges fean citizen. Southern States were in one respect a very different body of men from the Northern ones, Independently of their having thrown cffall attachment to their principles and ; ’ speak al nese; while te posate encrally 3} an agricultr) le, while the $ if tales were a Hakone ‘Pais circum cultura bodies in England and the Southern Siates, it atch a feeling arose from no other reason, it also accounted for the superivrity of the Southern soldiors, for agricaitural soldiers were the best men who could be en isted, and military men would any day rather bave a plough- man from Fssex,or a guod, honest horse tender from Leicestershire, than they would haye two manufac- turing men from Muncheeter. Greg nape were impri pleased their rulers so to detain tincts, it being contended ciples, great freedom and immunit; were the birthright of every A inhabitants of the Sout of the Northern States were & conimercial stance would at once create a@ kindred one. civil war broke out in America the vel lity betwocen he confessed that, speaking ind! bo had considerably Southern States. (Hear, hear and cheers. hem every success in the contest in whi and that speedily, they would goon gain it b; ‘of the people unjustly expressed towards England. appeared, too, that A a \ government roperly and. justly adopted a line of decided neutra- “: the two bell sere Pow-rs; he approwd of this line of conduct, and if the government ‘had been impugned for it in Parliament they would have had his humble sup- port in opposition to aby attack. But although he advo- cated a neutral policy for the country and the government jividuully and perso tered his views with regari American affairs, and he now sympathiz.d strongly with the fo wished WU ees they os engaged, aud be hoped that they might eventually, a , too, gain for themselves that independence for which they had so gallautly fought, and establish themselves as a separate nation. When tho righthon- | that he could not say with Mr. Gladstone that they were in that position at present, but he hoped that their valor und determina- tion. A good deal of this leaning towards the Southern Statos had arisen both in his own mind and in tho minds of England from the avcwed hostility which the Northern States had, without cause, wantonly and Hear, hear.) ‘Th Northern States had shown this ili feeling unmistakab’: and we bad borne it manfully, but when it appeared that war was inevitable, and that We should be forced to taice retaliatory moasurés, against their aggressions; when it t.this was our determination, then the He feared bei mally’, Northern States flincbed. He thought it was only fair to say that we as A nation owed a deep debt of gratitude more | to Lord Palmerston for the manly manner in which the occasion of the Trevt the noble lord exhibited a firm (Hear he camo forward upon ‘egsion, when emi r.) Si the he sh b, American government, r now going forward it would be rather am! tion worthy of an Engiish minister. ince the system of drafts had been institute it was extraordina- and if it were not fir the bloodshed and misery e—to waich how the British consuletes thronghout America bad been crowded by applicunte—he was sorry to say that the greatest number 0 to the des} hem were Irishmen—(laughier)— Who cisimed the righty and privtloges of British subi (Laughter.) Now thee men yo'untarily renounced ai many of thom im unmistakable torms—their al exime tie rule of Great Eritaiu; and the torment thoy were called upcn as free ard enlightened citiveus of & républic to mainteta its authority, they the prosp ct, ond witch tried to recorax that Br wughter, ) gard t auch geutleme: tural simile, lel thm gather the crop w& sown. AB a proper papish: them pass the tlet vs 1c muta inder OF shed the Americans joy ot” tem Ainched From 1 protection they had of their own cecor’ thrown to Now bo had quite made up his these, ent—and he thou which tovehed ns more sevore!y thau any other distress which had occurred’ in our own mane districts, (rom the withholding of the raw the Manchester market. valeularly called the cotton famine, and th fami ies who pained high wages a year ago by thet: i dustry, and y ho were sow able an boon red: ced to a state of destity had shown mauliness, fortitude rr were at public te give thom st assistance possible, aud Lo oxo Cou stand by their own election; (es duam held fo (he vmemt of their oun choice, ant, to nm ogrigul thy hat ht it was thei: days in ve them here, for we had had enough of Hien; they were a very goo! ridduneo, and . (Laughter.) ‘hero wag another sad chapter of this Anierican war ‘This had produced what was These poor people guntio: oner in which they’ tuet the evils from wh sy present suferiog; it theiefore behooved the test sympathy and the great- ‘eas that the agricultural interest and the rurai populations 9. ¥ had fitoched ta the aightest degre fret holdin, owsbip im theie present dist: cra, we) right | and of lauded interest fully acknowledged that the a poor had a rivhtto reef from the p nd Liney now acknovleds: matin acturing districts 3 th nu Uleesed the pentry for the ast few y SYEECH OF ME, DU CANE, M. I ime! ined bo £ nt, and, ignoring # tescib sulately to time ft was iupos a Lineal tey Dv Cane, M. P., eid bo wa tee of a ec of home pe to treat hie a Doub Amerioa. AL thy an ne two speak uy ign ab ther that nbsuri ayust be diserssed with attitude w btof the unbappy suse y uot been responded to 1 exti bition tion, tor we know welt last winter, that im all cases of real insult and ag gression, ased up as our old Britih Deca cheerfed to be, he had rtev exoaeh leit to demuvd and enforce prompt reparation, But! we kuew that the onuge (or which the North was Ding was ON Mtnly hopelens One—Af we knew en boli vo thot the ree oration of the Union was j ‘archy=lt om re ation m the w relinquish fatal 4 which bad of drowning men, to a bad aud remembor that ‘sad and dark ar CHM omit to ueglected the wara. if statesmon—how ie waded throvgh :cas af bio e and wiliions of tevasre to @ tary comeiciun of the badness of ovr cause ai! the made It was difloult always to practice im f tie the moderation ard forbearance which we preached, and when we perused,day after day, (ho horrors of this savguinay strve—whes wo bretal proclamations and condnet of and President Lincoln—it was ¢if- indeed to imagine that we had not siumbled the Thuty War ot the worst period of the reach Conve tion ; and when wefurther catlet to mind that each week that thta unhappy cor test was prolonged added) it might be yeurs tothe tnisery and ruth of thousands of our pation suffering fetlow men, we required all our faith in the doo trine of neutrality to prevent our re-echoing—much, indeed, as we app:er.a’ed i in privalz—Mr. Roebuck's ory Bat however tempting tho doctrine of inter- veutiou might be,the hour in his (Mr. Ducaue’s) humble protctle us the vesienation of the He ber Uurt North amurica was pot t world’s hivtery whileb Lad been Io dreains of ompiro ant aggrandizeme ouly it, a dee page in oar ows our Americon ¢ ing voiee of the best and wikest of ner of cur pling the eftvir p toind the some jong forgotien chronicle of ternewion. option had not owe, oud be trusted the hour neve: roule come to talk about inferontion; cad be would say. iustend of abaudoning that doctrine of neutrality, which wo had regarded hitherto as the pole star of our soreign policy, its trial to test we wore te morrow aud get free he be. let us rather seize this great moment of our exdaring faith in is cor; to break the blockade once more the commerce of lieved it s the upon our manntvetering dietr, and that time one of two things must & un the one hand the North uv dream of have long maintained co atend ing w other the horoie res ¢tance tection of the el But wutil th Eng!tshme patient fe (oo owevernng energy; Jet us rather endeavor t oy 0} ont of evit by the development, if possibe, of freeh + oplies of cotton for out mahu'ac: toring disivkts; and | » landowners and farmers of Englaot show that the union of periculture, man tures and commeree Was uo mere aftor dinaer ery with them, ond-that (hey bad te ly eympothiging hearts but open and pot etapty bonus to offer to thoes who were boar- ing their suiloriigs wi (Hear, tear.) Mr. Peacocks, M. 1., said:—With convulsion whieh was devastating bringing distress aud starvation tg many forking of th British plople that the thought there was a widely sproad feo! erners had fairly earvet for themeelver by the vi; courage and self devotion with which or had carriod on they had con- ‘We ore told in some quarters that we had no but be had fn by the war and the chivalrous spirit in whi ducted 11. right to revognize the Bouin; Lie. ¢ een and forbs ich England had a in a 4 sisilar ell afford te look with a inci South, would be months, perhaps years, any available supp'y of votton cou'd be brought to bear lung beiore vitably happen ; wake from its “the baseless fabric of a vision AVC OF MR. PRAQOCRE, M. P. © the great toa St bevels homes ip this country, ne thought jt wow the general f of non intervention shoul be sepeaiel; bat at the same titas he in this country that the mowent had arrived when the independence of the oduce OF the se sht of the poor f tied al:.¢ a for im ‘Ness aud revogoize the gr ot trath which we that the Union for whieh it wag or on v share Of utis great ealarnity with meaniy and heroic fortitude. Oret oppor. | South should be reocgniced—a position which the Sout norable gentleman as supported Ir and to met riste, and fee thet had spevied ieey & do 30, ~~ At present ~ the conclusion at which he had, 9 ‘ Pay Malle wo own ws faa ay thi d Po wor hid @ right to recognise th one oF the Letigerents whenever i suivet wa int rests it was rathor a questica of Washing- ton being taken than of Richmond being therefore there was no immense dispropart attiahet & goveryand shed ct govers au nd clad bu dmmens? in qrentiry of ee a. \ i W YORK HMRALD, SUNDA me! ” ion of strength ‘between the contending parties; amd that thero was a Stable government iD South was: tion with which the forthern peo) horrors and privations of the war, ‘The South had shawn a» enthusiaam which was almcst wooqualicd in-the avuais ot history, and the readiness with which the whole male Pulation had evtered upon the battle fleld reminded 'm of the deecription given by Lord Macaulay of the raid made by the Etruscan under Porsenna against Koine:— ‘The harvests of Arretium this year young men will ‘oved by the devo were bearing the aps ‘This your young boys in Umbro will plungo the struggling sheep: DP: And in the vats of Luna this Round the white feet of dane! marched to Rome. He did not see how tho English government could longer refrain from recognizing asa fact that which their Chan- cellor of the Eachequ: tnowledged. 1 true that Sir Cornewall Lewis took, as he almays did, the elit ‘opportunity of contradicting Mr. Gladstone, and Bal it was dence of one of the conflictin; should be exhausted; but if Ness to refer to er had reecntly ack you rt ear the must shall foam ii girls whose sires have |. Tt wae ‘ecognized the indepen- parties that the other ir Cornewal!, who has a great reputation for reading, would only have the good- the precedents of Belgium or Greece, he would see that they were recognized before the power either of Turkey or Helland was Celera no Jess an authority than the Quoen’s Advo in the most distinct manner that ony thi Tight to ever tt suited its convenicnce to belligerent had no right remained to consider whether cane, did not sce the nize the laid it down ied State when: of @ revo do s0, and that the other it to complain. It therefore ox! a suited the aon f for the interest that the United States should be broken up, while it was in the interest of the starving millions of this country that this protracted war should be brought to as ge, Bg termination as possible. His honorable friend, Mr, Du- which the recognition of the South would accomplish; but upon that head he had the highest authority for stating that it was the earnest and sincere desire of the Southern confoderacy that they should be recognized as an independent State by the greet Eur Powers. (Cheers. 'Y good it are for Metiog hat the Emperor of the French told 1 at Vichy that personally he was in favor of a South as an independent country,” but authors Mr. Slide ha recogni ion o} that he was wiwilling to take any England. The He had also ver} ‘exc'gt in concert with ily of Pecoeniing ‘the South therefore rested with the Fuglish govervment, and he trusted that the English people would put such a pressure upon them that they could not shripk from taking the uct. It was in the interest of humanity itself war should be brought to a termination, if it was to be carried on in the spirit of the manifestoes of General Butler and the. proclamations of President Lin- that coln. The most ardent abolitionts desire to see the unqual fied upon a giten di emanci, ; and'if the prociamation of Mr. Lincoln in this country would not ton of 4,000,000 blacks ‘waa worth anything more than the paper upon which it was inscribed, and if the 4,000,000 blacks were eae | january, then we sliou! be emancipated on the 1st of prepared to witness a carnage so bloody, that even the horrors of the Jacquerie and the massacres of Cawnpore would wax pale in comparison. The emancipation pro- it had been in the ta- clamation of Mr. Lincoln, even torest of the negro, would hay wo be been a political crime; but when we refiectod that it was put forth, not in the interest of the negro cr of civilization, but that it wag meroly @ vindictive measure of spite and retaliation upon 9,000,000 of whites struggling for their independence, it wag one of the most devilish acts of fiendish malignity which the wickedness of men could ever have conceived. (Cheers. Not that he wished to speak in too depreciatery terms of the position of the great federal party of the United States, for there were many points of betwen tf and that of the great conservative resemblanca party of this country. ‘The conservatives bad numbers, wealth, and ition upon their side, and yet somehow they were ie to cross the Potomas of office, or at all events per- Maneptly to cstublich themselves there. (Laughter.) Was tt owing to 8 want of courage or power—to the or- ganizing powers of a Beauregerd, tho strategic vixor of a 5 Lec, or the brillisnt exocnticn of a Stouewill ghtcr.) He would not venture to express an 0} ‘La Keon Y pinion upon a0 delicate a sub'ect, but he would leave it te some future Thiet great batt how the; of Antietam Mr. Walpole’s resolution. that for his own part ho importance wt ? tives might be enear pon which © to tcl! how the conzervatives fous ek upon church rat met with their discomfture of Bull rv (Lavaghter.) egurded ft asa matter of litte # of the Fotomae the conserya- ed if he had the satisfect! a of their and upon He confessed knowing that conservative principles were in the ascend Captain Jenvis, M. P., algo responicd cy, and that uo jovert mi if ft did not adopt a conse ee id Lope to rem ave poliey. in Cheers.) SEFECH OF CAPTAIN IFRVIS, M. P. to the toast, ex pressing bis satisfeotivn that the views which he ex- ing. atthe meeting of the aaseciation last year upon an atinirs lad been, fuily eupported by the varivus 8 that cv SPERCH OF ALUBKMAN BALOMONS, M. P, {From the Dondon Yost Oct. ah} Last night, at eight o’clock a crowded public moeting Jecters was hold at the Lidorary Inscltution, Lo Hill, Greenwich, to hear an ad Salotnoas (one of tho members for that boroagi) Fox ess trom Alderman natory of hts yiows or various important questiona of tne day. AildeTman Satomone, M. P,, during his addres, acid the civil war now Fr: joted not only North, mM those tho: as a conseque r t and bey come tury. iw ov rors. the tiny be acter. de traveled Statin, Samorie cont an afinity mediate Hear. cont ore tween Ub» coutendin most romani ry was ¢ no led into the Us total y ne 4 ame: he aaw.caled the prine ple ail of 0; inva that thas cov feapate were now out of ing in America waa an evil which people of that nation, bat all classes the people of Uhis country—es,<cinily ‘involving din- cas and privation to the minnutactaring districts of th They wee all delightod with the heroic conduct ands of artisans wh oe of (he dearth of cotion, and wh: twele of dignitiod Bulleriag sich as could not by the mest bunguing, E ich he had procured, that wher ork pre- found, as in the jess Una 1,116,590,008 pounds of cotton had mount matter of bed dy us weil imported ng the first ar—was only 247,383,606 pounds. surpriee that om Is of honest working Wid telcre The war itself drcadlul description, and this jy interested in its reaulis Lingdom from .\mo- trom January mouths of hom fa ty The moat ed.cuted peo} ie wa tho world, a retigious people, who fad hither to b the & Ie and ambition veeued t Beasion of the peopls of the No appeared to Lo brothers en the me Whea direct with advantage. through the Uvited Ftates, and wag ther tetwrea hited Stas were Bow plorient wer tar gegde of teeral Norihern | ¥, and ac mreniion wets hell a! Hartford, wh two of the Staier acual y resoin d to seperale from’ the Unran and ma..e proce om the busis Of thew State rijhls. dic. Madison wae then President, and ussia attempted to mediate between Eugiand aud the United States, and thot medi ation was ultimately successful in prociting peace, Al- tho gh im favor of non-intervention, be cid not believe thet Varli dacnt would hereafter be disposed to pass over this Ate: ican quarrel so lightly a3 i bad dove ia the last The people of the South, pairovim, hat fou Whe heroes, and Sor whieh bored that wigs the Ami ‘onees, and be thong ht & nght ateut which would terminate this in- ‘ce aagrace as tt wae to tne mumetem’h cen- Het Hot account ior the Lact unie® there was eiwoen extreme a desvotiem; but there had always bem great friend. ship between Ruesia and the United Stutes, and he thought that po one beter than the Kmperor of Russia coult be employed in the work of attempting tw the contending joiced in the effurts made, mot only in tu our colonies, to mitigate the dust.ess in ourfeotton ma- pufacturing districts. His heart warmed w of the sams hich had been sent from tho Atistralia, ond other colonies towards this object, and in spite of Mr, Goidwin smith, he believed that if anything tended to show the advantage of retaining ou i in mauy respects a p. ight have taken entire pow. ro States, and they shortly bore Ni out; Ua actuatd tm th “dud ¥ were more Fad ho did uot think this wow by this country would iu, bis youth Kul no means of Obtaining ther object ey did not live 10 amity At p So bad both Norta aber the war 8 112. During that States pivtes ed againat the scrom wrael that hae craey and extreme toa. Ho re country, bat no be heard saat Indies, colonies: the sympathy Wey invariably evinced for the weltare of tho mother country. ships, celonies aud commerce; and he believed that it ‘Hugland gave up her colonies sue would sink in the s0a'e of uations to a second rate Power, wud lose the pres. tie she had so uobly won. The American war bad taught tw to be prepared. Ho did nut forget the Trent—(choors)— ond that atiair had done wonders for us, a4 it ad con- vinced the Americans and the world effete—that the fighting had not gone out of ws—but that England was resdy and prepared as ever to maiotain her honor and digaity. After ro erring to local topic?, Alderman Salotnons ré- sued his Beat amidat applause. SPEECH OF MR. MILNES, M, P. His motto wag still that we were not [From the London Times, Oct. 24.) subscriptions cashire and Cheshire. Mr. Moncton Mitwes, M.P.,was among the speakers at the meeting. Referring to the American war, he suid the suffering of our fellow countrymen om the other side of the Atlaatic was an cvent likely to prodveo Do good whatever Whatever tm South, t Powers of tion which was abhorrent to the mines of aid i ngli hmen. (Hear, heat.) Ie approached th at thot of # retBe 0 At an influentially atteuded meeting, helt at Pontefract on fueeday bi ight,» committee was appotuied to collect in aid of the suffering operatives of Lan. between In (he event that he ¢ of ML see, to tho world. some what Knglond and the ight be the iveuocf that conflict, could seo nowing that eould con Hf the Sorth were tho vic onoe happy sil united people would be held ja bonds of subjugation—bonds which existed years 8a portion of that similiar to thse Ireland sume surcoas of the would se@ & new Power introduced to the the great ei urope, based on the py servation of an inetiin 6 gr tiect with no feelin, Mats wich evtch Wu nd pleased Providence to alfiict tho world; and the oly uso they could emergan make of it was to do their duty inthe y. He thought was to be deplored that we should be dependent upon one country alone for so im. portant a branch of our staple manufacture, and ho; Ohat, in tho future, attempts would be made to de: the ‘cotton prodne't ‘cdonian resources ot our @wn - subject, heal 8 me nothing to * © It had boom sald that wo ought to re-ognize the | practically exhaust the Southern States of America, and eg pad server omen et Say upon it, Buta T avo aircady sata, the whole 8; ones. Bub the seal objection w thi? powrse was ‘One tem of maritime law, when once touched, crumbles all to iat ser ahaa red | Eve 3 a tt poces yeaa se u he » une neh le ine hogs ale doing eahacrrtate this ously more Other, which ‘ai80 requires readjustment. Whea 1 beard aud more st the Northern Stats, The oid. Te*82D | it was the intention of the honorabie member for Liver ws, that the blockade of the whole of tho ports “* | pool to bring forward the subject of the exemption of prt- a rae Sait ines ot this of itsell suitor = paar TE ee lenpdieily said ents apy Taterial bulk of eosiou from coming ont. Tpeot imate If wewere to the Southern States tomorreo, the | Sign ‘hAb of commercial blockades that the two blocke cle would continue, and by the law of na’ions we | note kept “Part. Mr. Horgfall, who s rbmitted bis mo- shou!d hove to declare war against the Novihern States, and | tion with ovsderable ability, bad a strong fecting thas add wre war W the calamities und-r which We} against adgiing to bis apy allusion to are dir , system of 0) loekades; (Hear, bear.) Within the course ttn oes few months 7] contingencies eae cow in the discussion of public af a by w some this woe mi eome it is BO use to. ro ‘Note shores, eodiihis be" did mor thane improbable. Tout | S,tMine Laat sb begin with <* Be ‘ablo to conepal an ont when it fb was better 9ot to expoct it; 1s was preferable to look | Wu Pe. go before the putblle nd te 6 eicae ea with ise this evil fairly im’ tho face.’ 1¢-we looked for the cotton | [igeutatversaries, Af there 13 any. parc thar sen tana week aftor week tho question of relieving the national dis- | to leave out, and your opponents see that consider it SEE WOERRRS © COED) seRect ama: We | a weak point, they are sure to lay hold of’ it and to press munat look forward all this winter to the imponaibility of | ft Ngainst yor. (A laugh.) So ft turned out in the de, again setting in work the great cotton manufactories of Lanceshire aud Cheshire, Nor would it bo advieablo for the government to do more than they had done on il they were compelled & do i, hear.) But these men bate on Mr. Horsfall’ tion. He was told, of course, that if you exempt private property from capture at sea during war, you must also consent to give up the system of commerciat blockades. There is no doubt in the world in the cation Settheie a die, ftgpae) sent At; the two things are ulterty absurd amd }, ONSLO' a exempt a cargo of goods from capture when hap- {From the London Star, Oct. 25.) Satcemdun’cosan, bot. tamuntear ashe We aan On Thursday ovening Mr. Guilford Onslow, M. P., ac- cording to custom, met his constituents in the new Coun- ty and Borough Hall, Guildford, for tho purpose of giving | free to roam the soa when once out of haroor, but may = rom of Ms Pariiamentary fasepeairvn aa a be captured, if caught, before it goa threo ralies from arty address Mr. Onslow ae | land—is to assert that which cannot be practi ear. lected the oxcitement which -had followed. the s»izure of Y dies the Confederate Commissioners, As soon ns we heard of the seizure the government sent outa large force to Cana- da, and a.demand for redress was also forwarded to tl fured whon it gots within three miles of a port—or, other words, to declare that a cargo may perfectly of private sider the larger question of commercial biockades. Deeause American government. Now, he considered we were per- | it is the larger question, the capture of private foctly right in demanding redress, but he thought the | praperty at sea necessarii; r S great expense of the preparationséuen made had been | shipowners prematurely incurred. Gefore incurring that expense we | whe acommercial blockade affects noutrals as Ought to have ascortainod what course the President of the United States was willing to take in response to our demand. ( Applause.) What wo did was like holding a pistol to a man’s head when he was being requested to make an Spoloay England was far too great and power- ful nation to have in. any way suffered by the adoption of another course than that which was then pursued. The American government had surrendered the Confederate Commissioners, and he copsidered that the conduct ot the American press aud people on the eccasion had been worthy of ail praise, Let us not forget the offer that had been made of a free for our troops to Canada, ‘The expense then incurred had amounted to £1,500,000 of money; it nd frustrated the view of the Chancellor of the Exchoquer, st the reduction of taxation, and caused an irritation in the minds of maay of our Ameri- oan friends which had not yet been wiped out. He hoped that if complications like ‘those arising from the ‘Trent affair should again occur they would be settled by arbi- tration. He would now refer to the unhappy struggle which ‘Was now going on in America. Every friend of humani- portance to ‘capture of pris property at sea, which, by the way, was the princi reason why I ventured to seck an et dt ee in, to you to-day. In discussing the subject of commerce! blockades I must again refer o what taken place in our relations with America, Tho American government were the firet to perceive, after they had pro. posed to Europe to exempt private property from ‘captureat ees, that the proposal involved the question of commeroial biockades. It is no merit om tlc part of tho United States that ‘hey have been the first to view the question in the light in which it affects neutrals, nor is it a proof of their disintcrestedness. 1 do not mention the fact to their praise or biame. They have beon the great neutial Power of the earth; they came into existence and ty, on seeing the hitherto flourishing republic groaning | jumped info an immense trade while holding thomseives under the horrors of civil war, could not but feel the pre- | ‘aloor from Kuropean politics, always acting upon the foundest regret. The war, he felt bound to say, had beea | maxim from the time of Washington, that they should ro caused by slavery. (A\ panne) What was it but the | main outside the balance of power and everything that wages of slavery for which the Southerners were fight- | could ent them in European complications, it that whenever a war occurred in it was their commerce, as the coinmerce of neutrals, which suffered most. ‘They have not shared the enjoyment of tho fight, but they have always borue the brunt of the enforcement of the maritime laws affecting nou- therefore they have naturally from the ing? It had only been in June that we had concluded a treaty with the federal States of America for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade; but if the South gained the ascendancy the siavo trade would be re- vived. If the North, on the other hand, succeeded, the emancipation of the slaves might be considered cer- tr tain, (Applause.) Slavery was tho accursed thing we | first’ sought to protect their own legitimate and had ourselves b quvathed to the Americans. We had, How- | honest interesta by pressing the rights of neu- ever, been laboring to put it dcown—we had been endea- voring to induce other nations to follow our example. Emancipation was the noblest result in the career of Wil- berforce and of Brougham. (Loud cheers.) But what was now seen in this country? Almost all the aristocracy of ngland—the conservative party, and, he deeply grieved to say it, many among the liberals—were taking tho part of the Southernc:s against their legitimate masters. There was this inconsistency to be seen in many who justified the South in rebelling—they took the opposite side in Eu- ropean questions, They took the side of the King of Na- ples and the Pope of Romo, and they condemned Garibaldi a8 a traitor anda robber. (Hoar.) ‘These reflections bad struck bim painfully and forcibl, Jn arguing the case of the contending parties, he would ask, had the Confede- rates been resisting a bad government, Or a de=potism? ‘Vhey had resisted the goverument which bad boen mare by themseiyes, which they had sworn to protect, and which had viven them no cause for rebelling, ( hers.) had ‘rebelled against the emancipation of the dd when he heart ef the rais in all their megotiations on the subject of intor- national maritime law. It is a curious circumstance, though I wish to guard myseif against being supposed to atiach undue importance to it, that on the breaking out of the war in Italy betwoen France Austria the Ame- rican government sent to all their representatives in Ku- rope a despatch on the sebject of international marijime law, in which they, for the first time, broached im a practical form to the Europecn governments the idea of abolishing altogether the system of commercial blockades. ‘That, I say, is a remarkable circumstance when viewed in the Hight of subsequent everits, becatse there is ne doubt that if, in 1869, the Enalish government, followed as i would have been by the other governments of Eurupe, had ac- cep'd cordially and eagerly, as tt 04% our interest to have Or suggestion of the Ameri been poesible to aneid all that is hire, and ircc’s, as far as cotton is Liverpool ant New Orleans. (Cheors.) Vor you will bear im mind that, though it may be said that the war in America is but a re- . ad chisers.) P, hops INjou oF a civil war, the Paropean Lowe.s recognize the nent would not bodge an ineh fiom Tho Pid of the Southern ports only as the blockade of a policy of nevtrality it had adopted. Last w boiligerent. It has beer distinctly intimated to Amerien had been attended by the Preuicr,a noble | that we do not rocognize thelr mubicipal right in the mat- nihe-ners, Thag noble | ter; and if they were to proclaim, for exvunple, that puth had sul to be traded with, aud did not keep: urge, the Neient force of shire there, we should goon trading had not meant slavery. Perhaps tho. nod! the town jast as if nothing had oocaried. it isomy the whites joa. After apou cundition that Lhe beckade shall be ellectively maiu- tained as between betligerents that the European Powers pot abject to slavery 5 well os popuiation Of am : Batory of {ue Soni h aud siavery recognize tt at ail. Hence thére can be no donbt that if at Foume pcdpte might Ack whe :vaé Yr. | the propesal of the Ainerican government im 1859 had been Onslow, and what value was ta be wttached to his opin. | cordial’y accepted by Tugland, tt wouid have boea wel- ions, In reply to that ho would he great Count | comet by the rest ot Kurope, and have prevented the Cavour held the opinivas he (he spoutor) D4 WSt Cx: | oxieting state of things in this districi—a oirewnstance pressed. Conntavour, shorty betore Lid doath, } which ehowe the extenordinary and sudden mutations to Seen his Minister 6 the winch fhe remtius of the ™ 00s, basin Suslleg are 9 would By mpatbir: va exposed. (Hear, hear.) There cal Ly da Slates, Count Cayo ea van” Kuroye | (hat in ¢ the American aa iva oh conid not sympathize With the yacecen-f a party which | have Been oblige? (a carry On the war with Bs Mesired the continuance 0 D lad ches) He (ir. Onslow) had seen « Southern States without imbo: Count de faris, ade; or, tf thy had atlempod to ing « commercial block Lavery. ¢ etior from th tablish such a io whieh Le uid thet it was impoesib's to watch wit) out | blockade, in violation of (heir lacernetional engagemen‘s, omiction the struggles which a great nation was making (0 | they would have involved (h mactrer im heaities with the maintain her institutions, or to believe ia the success of seat of the word. ps of course, no rational minority the corner stone of whose system was slarer® | yovernmoat enteriug apo. (Hear, (Applaase.) T mention this a8 @ fact which gives great siguiit: and groat opportinities to the dis- cuagion of this questhin; but Ido not iosiet upon it tn tho way of blame to any’ one, Liplownat'e arrangemcuts, es, vctally when they involve a ro. city, aro never made , i. each a way, unless when an amnav Jomatist inter. A special mooring of the Manch: tb feres—(choers vad Inighter)—as to warrant us lo hope ree was held to-day in the Mayor's Parlor, for the pnr- | thar isd year or two sucht a grout chanze indeed a rove hearing an address fcr Me, Cobden ou the su) | jution ww doternationsl maritime lav —as tbe one proposed The Rigit of Search. MR. COBDEN, M. P., ON PREK FLAGS, BELLIGERENT RIGHTS AND BLOCK ADRS. 7 Prom the London Tin a sect of international maritione law. It was atte by the American gov ail the ding members of the Chamber, as w plished, Mention the cireun deputstions trom Javerpooi and other pl.ces, or Mana o apy one for the past, but tw draw & speech of the honorable gentleman was listened to with most serio: Aud eolemn inferevee from it tor the mario tmdercate 3 future (fear, bear.) We ow snitering from Pr CORDES Bald — now very nearly twenty four | ye 10) of commercial blockade—sutigy yoars ago—on the a0tn of 1668—-that this | to operation of Mes. he. seet — ing in a way which cou be mi — by any Chamber met, and after a d other exlamity concoivable {2 ghe cou atte: the Attention of the whole jangdom, put forth 0 | the pevolutious © saugety tho world Its munifests in tavor of the tote: Seen ate neice iden bo te Corn ‘ows and the abolition of ali p © tlerly Gryond the power of vem maul ict ms. ny guarded ajcins! Os that which bas ba thing cleo chafFee:.rted, m the presopt commercial di the sire ¢ whieh endured Wading fifty or si ears witli 2 fee L of free tra of the howleh duriog the whole of that time bas (Which) will altima’ Leon ly tnereasivg ite produccion o raw fibre (or the word. does Increme, iments of re al, training pariog in every ih r a Be y forthe manufactare and oc that caw We meet now under cireum: | mutortal, The cotton was int for you, nol or the bs somewhat dierent, bat when T am atraid a stell | ooi9 by whom it was grown. You have deca making gre ter calamity thr aters your particular dis rict, arising | provision for ite use, and Low ali at oxee, a8 Ht # port us ofthe cpevation of the Americon commercial Wckade 1 curs wore let dow: ‘at the eutrance of a cast We met then to discuss a& remedy against fam in the at stream, which has beea coastaat Fopeal of the Corn laws, wo now tect to discuss a rem - | Piriod of moro than half aceatury, 13 dy against sich it as now affict Us in the consideration Of (he question of maritime laws and Lelligerent x Chis. It @ not roused are deprived of the mens on wh Meulating for the empinytaent Nothing bat am comumere have produced ne oa ue State of th e . norer been expected, Wo have hyd, tnd at appre Pty hind i is use'ese to quirrol with the co: beusions of danger from the ese of dur go apd ote lon of man. We are not mere abstractions, and if tho | ¢on trom one particular country. We have speoulated as Fsitation of A calamity such as that which bas now | +., (he possiblity o: natueal e(peility seizing upon a teeri- befalien us has the effect of leading us to 6 } gi. ge siunall inspace, and we have alco swceniated vise @ remedy against it@ recurrence, perhaps t th veel ot rete prety 4 ie as tauch Wo bave a right to oxy¢ot trom hs: th possibility of a } Msurrection that might destroy: j teat social syetem vy.n which we have sometimes re } Gretted tisis vast ind stry is based. (Hear, hear.) But ff you reflect for a moment you will ud that tn the na tare of things neithor.of thase events would bave beea likely to happen, if ioft UW» the operaten of natural laws, with the suddenness of the calamity which L ow bee fallen us. ‘Tbe siayes might have been emancipated; but, goverally speaking, whea slaves are cmancipated, as in the case of the West India lslends, if no foret.n cement ts introduced, ihe transition from slavery to a staie of freedom man wisdom and forethought are two points of resembience between the projective system and that ccde of maritime law which we are aseembied to consider, Both bad thetr origia tu barbarous and ignorant ages, and both are so ui sutled to the eye times that if they are once touch. ed ip any part they will tumbie to pieces wader the hands of the reformer, Upom thit acownt woe ought to be thankful that ia the negotiation of tho treaty of Paris in (lear, hear.d 1856 the Mlenipotentiaries—I do not know why. fer thy compuraetbe “ wero not uzged at tho timo to deal with the sabject—veu. | {42cormelithed wilh somparati Teepe tem sek tured upon an alteration ia the aystem of international | an geeut go great a prtvation of the tum maritime jaw. You are aware that wt the close of the | 9, of our industry would have arisen Crimedh war tho Vet:ipotoutiarios mecting in Congreas at Paria made a mes important in maritime law, aa ing erentaand wutral:. They decided that i> Rambo hg Pond eden ad @ time of war shovid + be respected in an cnemy's ship, and that enemy: | groperty should Le respected when under a neutral flag; and ~ og decided that privatecring showid in future be abo- wi These propositions, alter Lem 4 necopted by al Most every country in Lurope, with the excoption, portage, of Spsia, were sent to America, with a request the adhesion cf tho American government. ihe American Ca ngiere itd tn their adhesion to that part of the declaration which aMrmed rights of neutrals, We might have had some perturbation for 9 year or so, levseriug production and diminishing your suppites to te exteot of a few thousand bales—a deficiency which would obably have been made up ta the folowing year, bat © whole world woul have been looking on al an eveut which might have boon thought to bod» (or the futare no gvod for that region in the way of the production of Got- wu, and efforts would have been instantly made in every direction to insure for you a auficient enppiy of raw ma- torial, Now, on the contrary, with the 4,000,000 bales of cotton which will exist in the Southern states at Christ- mas, and with the prevailing uncerwinty as to the result of tno war, (here i¢ no remedial measure which can be ap- and waid they had v8 been the first to proclaim those plied, inasmech as the people feel a great disinctination righta, but they niao stated that they preferred to carry | To iivest. their capital when the imagker. 4s threateued out the resolution which exempted private propert from rf capture by privateers at seaa tittle furt to de. | With 20 great a disturbing cause as the euditen release of @ cut merica, (Hear, hear.) clare that sich property should be exempted from %, go Mlag fe Loe bens whether by privateers or by armed govarnnent chips. (Hear, | he tad ee, rt hear.) Aer Seamer the proposal respecting Seitaneer? | riisty in the land. Wo have had inte thas siruck particular vegetables. We taro blight, the vine discere, and the malberry and we bavo bad these visitations of Providence in the Suet of opidemics vegetable choleras. ‘as they might be cated. It is possible thut there might have been some Buch accidental cause to dimin! for a tow years the uction of cotton in America, although bithorto cotton fog had been made to America or not, | contond that after the change had been introduced affirming the ts and priv iirc ges of neutrals it would have been as much the in- terest of England to follow owt the principieto the extent propoced by America, 2% though America bal get vs the example in being the Arat to doit, (Hoar, hear.) {say has been = made a! fo because an attempt to evade hus beon singularly exempted from @ Visitations of toe Uaran L eins, Sueur tea etek nathre; but wil that might have Boon guarded against, at second hand. But, 1 ropeut, afer the Con. , | 8 you find you can get ‘silk iu China to s»pplement a gress Of Paris hed’ affirmed’ tho rights and | Mare in France of Italy, Here, on thecontrary, is a oa ‘40 which cannot be dealt with; it 1. tamana eabls. prize, of Beutrats, Englishinon had above ‘ali outer Inginierest in proposing to catend th declaration 6) na to include the exemption % Private pro: perty from capture by armed » (Hoar, It has been sald that the Amorteans were not »in 1c is 40 grave, #0 alarming, avd) who reflect upon what may be th mouths hence in sacb & hideous beget thoughts of seme ¥ jo that frame of mind the howld Kear ier jection the fuots T have enneeen, vie thet the ‘ wariare from witch we eo nov auflering 80 sorely oon that we are the chief means of main- tujning, in opposition, I believe, to the opinion «f the whole indreantile and, indeed civiirzed world. (Cheers.) With these preliminary remarks [ shall read an extrnet from the des} which, ax { have told you, was written cu the breaking out of tho Italizn war by Me. Coas, then Foreign Mintster et Washington, and sent to all the ma soit to (hore it 8 probably net gencrally known that the Propemal which (ie Awe rican yu within the Inet five yours ae in Sirk treaty with Liaglind afer the Delucwion of lw dependence, eighty wetre von. Te bad ite ovitin woeh that great nan, Dr: Franklin, wie carried ito bis diplomacy, ty them in the as into hia philos by, a high and gemial priucipleof plit- Amer’ enment in lanchroj hy. ta the ~ Autobiographieat Mersiors al rire made in the House of Commana to induce the Jefferson’? I find the foliowing passage. overpment to print and lay that ons on the table, During the negotiations for pence wjth the Britieh Com. | fix the request was Fetused ov, I thick, very invuliciont miasioner, Tude- “i to US ; largo (at the close Of tho War of ners proposed, oa the wugies grounds, We have had presen an article exert despat volume of American have not much concern, aud some of d Hnrtiey penitence |, eur Commih of Dr. Frankiio, to to cap lure. olligerent all by tie public oF private armed ships of. ¢ faone care—the case of me fn! vewels and th ployed in Pother maticionsly, printed beeawer [ying on the eommeroe beiween mation. Tt was cefused by | the Bint att ny Sea peng wat with (a, (hele aupeHior tointacron piace tanianety wore | 6, Ne Marae hte ne cnt heave vefused to publish. At havard on the ocean than ont; fis harks abound in | ary en a py Washingion, where é may be hat proportion Ya game, fo on yrivhteatn rag evere Fa ee, fore ory small sum, and T find i euters into the Wronld be few fOr waut of bul)jccta of capture. rvject of indernational maritiine law gr: eraly Ap. war in italy my (Hear, hear.) It i# not my Intention to dwoll further ing vat the % by the hand of Mr. Cars, lay down u m1 \merienn govern a , ray tan eted tus i | ir no tae one ne Pe t question has been det with in two addroaser 8. | The hockade of an enemy’ wae be cree prsryet oft ‘sing rom thie Cham, and thy Chamba ot Lavorp el, | inverai: Wie ee tine wo adait'gual sttvdgih vy ac la: Dubiished about two oars ago, | pore. i % a. a Ee * ‘oundation om which it resta, and ons et Sogn en cl fora oa o€ mon and miaicrial neo ite rcs A Tate mode of o> Jee" to 90 long ae ae wees ‘uoua along it, without any regard¥B uilerior mallitary ter emwith the carrylug on & wag agaist trad.yant {vom tte very mature against the trade of Peaceful and. Of ® war acaiush men, ia which It is. diMionit to recowtile with reason OF ‘tm wateh ibe and conten every Nose is ping to enter oF tuna eat wate lak mode af ae doeees Ut, which wou til tio epleration, wt fe™ Advocates it | |S ‘ | Tha: (espatoh, dated Juno 27, 1859, was brought under phe geri the pope dno op the 18th of Febru- ', 1361, 1 was not presentat the time, being in Aigi beef ss to the purport oommerci jee cetpoaal tog, posting. an'end to thoes, and thee is pto a ing an o them, was hoomeary, aa Pa’ great wiaritine”Powor, that we rant of blockade. should posgess the ‘That doctrine, coming from the " Office within thé last three yeare and a-half, seems lo me to. au important bear indounty do. ‘motition of houses “with a view to defence against the power of an investing foe. (Hear, bear.) I kuow no re- medy for euch & state of things aa dhis if you maintain the of commercial blockades. But Isay, if itis ne- $0 ad the at 90 likely to do,in tris , suffering from the lar district, coms: thes it affects our Pmt eae © § Aone too ‘cud gu against. Some people say that we must recognize the South in order to get-our-eotten. But South would. de pears, al a fron yhoo tas. of any Kind as to the uno a wo igh the North to es porte Mine ouly quaaion the weuld bo whether the bi de was tive. But what I am afraid is, in the boarts of those who are almost bewildered with the which they see on record.if we, when wehecwsto rele leon ibenpplienr tion of our doctrines to our own cise, were, in the teo! ‘not merely of law, but of the law of whichiwe are ourselves the chief promoters and maintainers to re- sort to violonco to get the cotton, there is no amountot suffering which the American people, every mau and wo- man of them, supposing them to be the samo as tloir fathers on this side of tho water aro, would not eudure resist what in such @ case would be regardel aa outrage. (Hear.) But now J will deal with this questien on tis own merits. Is it our interest, the interest of the Fuglish nation, to maintain and ‘perpetuate the system commercial blockwdes? Tho particular suggestion of Mr. Cass is this—that in the origin of blockades it was never wntended to blockade a whole coast,or to shat out the export and import of articles not contraband of war. Ta thero, then, zuy ground for supposing that this cor has an iutorest in maintaining that system by whi those blockades are extended to all commercial ports? Mr. Caas says thyt it was never intended to beso extended, and he gives coent facts reasons in support of bie assertion that in its origia a biockade mea@at the ort of fortified ptaces; and theft investment by sea and at tho same time, ‘The Amoricans do not object to that; they do not object te. your investing their own argeuals; they do not say that Torts- mouth and Vlymouta are Krete be lable ty mvestment, but tho argumeat is that th8 peaceful ports of commerce ought not to beshot ap fn time of war. And Leask again, what interest have we as a nation in opposing that [1 CH © Why,I think it is oasy to show that we, of ie in the world, have the most interest ia catabliea it. And bear in mind that I am arguizg this maiter ouly a8 it alfeows our own interest4. ido noi come az & hamanitarian ora philanthropist, asking my couatry- men to give up a system which i# advantageous to them, oat of homage to the gentos of the age, or vecense we gIP reaching a midennium, but [ask usd aS An hog. Jishwan, and ag a public man Ebave not, and never haye had, auy other criterion to” guide me, nor any standard by which to form my opinion, but tbe interests, thg honest mterests of my country, which, I believe, with God's blessing, are interests of mankind. oars) Undorst: thag I don’t bog the shin’ bat’ 1 challenge . discuselon ius meitts, aud in the way in which I am now t treat it. Let us ask ourselves with what con ean be advant of commercial! that country. ‘There are only three countries with which Ki id could =porsibly bave a maritime war of aby serious demonsions—viz, France, Russia and the United States. Taxe France. Why, since the dis- covery of the ke moive and the rail merchandiae ia- tended for the interior of Franco, which now un vrdt- nary circumstances goes by way of Marseilles, Havre and other ports, could find a way to cnier by Rotterdam, Fiam’)irg, and very soon also, aa the lines of railway are completed, by the ports of Italy and even of Spain, and with !\ te addition 10 ite cost, certaiuiy without such am addition as would form an insu;erabie bar to the people obtaining and enjoying these commodities. Pt te, & blockade—as an fustrement etait Sep introduction ‘of the ‘oeom ke wubt that in régard to that take Ruesia. There i 00 eee eee hoavily OC YAW from which we imp. try eous for England to maintain the system 1: cktdes, Supposing We wore at war with lopomotive and Blac: Sea, the prinoiple of boi! good in all ite jorce. commercial bio #42 S1N Lask if you “8? | = with Ruasia would tt be the interest of Ragland to u. force the sysiem of commercial blockade as a mozns ob that country and putting an end w the lostiti That question is answered by what we exw done the Crimean war ‘That war was declared in 1s64. France aud England had both had deficient ts, and in France especially there waa a dearth of food. What was the course then pursued by (huse coun tries’ Did tuey instantly avail themselves of the power of blockading the southern ports of Russia’ No. Though the war was deciared iu March, 1854, it was tot outil March, 1855, that the biockade of thy commercial ports of the Black Sea and the Soa of Azoif was declared. We purposely Jett those ports open for a twelvermonth, im order that Kngiand and France might get grain from them, aud we got more than haf @ million quarters of cor from them to feed our while we wore at tho same time carrying on tho most destructive operations of the siege of Sebastopol. That is a practical instance ia our Own day, and in respect te our own coun- tury, in which rs epriiee. the priuciple advocated by Mr. C.ss, viz :—That of besioging a military arsenal and car- fying on simuttancously a intercourse with the enemy's commorcial ports. (Hear, boar.) But it fa the othor direction? Beur ia mind that of all ports (ron Russia, whose chief exports are raw mp, flax, Unseed, tallow and grain, England takes fae more than oue-half—in the Case of some articles she takes even a2 much as seventy and be ee percent. Well, ifwe wére at war with Kussia, sheuld we caforce & blockade upon her ports? Again, we have an illustration of that ia the List war. We professed, it ia true, to blockado: stadt to prevent the export of raw material, such as flax and hemp, by sea to jaud. By that moans we merely di- vortod that trafile t xh Prussia; and in one year, 1866, os fron tallow to the amoun,ol £1600, Hl luce. lockade, ukatious tn bomnp au indian sooda, and they perhaps thought, is.wae rather cheating them {hat lowed to come into this country in that indirect The consequence the Tlouse, and by deputations to ‘ pot down the trade thus onto was, thot 4 vigorous was made te y do the Foregn Miniter with a view to stop that contraband trade. 5 ment were challenged, and you do not cuturce some test of Origin, you had better abolish the system of blockade altogether, because you are are only tompti to their ruin these peor merchants ‘who have gone to Manila for hed It wis about to very hard with this Prus- sian trade, when a another party in the field, The Dundee ber of Comtherce, taking the met and sent © memorial 5 ovornment, stating that they viewed with thie attempt t keep out Rassan bemp—that of Forfar, around Lundee, could not “exist without that Ruseian raw materiel, aud earnestly begving the govern. ment, therefore, to offers ne ipedenans 10 its lwoportation. bis while we were at war w esiqand paying for pin. show fleet to blockade her porte. The [a tym Tg that nothing wad done, and, as | uncerstond, onc or two: of the houses connected with the Manila homp trade were ruived ju consequence. Turn now to the third case. we were at war with Ameriva. Dpes anyboly be- i been at war with her lat your, we shart MS or and blockaded the Southern ports ant pre- i = s 3 z rented coming into Lancarhier P (Uoors “aiA laughter.) Well, but that is the theory upon sive Lard John acts. And my case i# this—-that, asomiog a theory W very careful not "to enrry cub are ouraelves, we to the rest of the workt tie oppor- tunity of earrytng it ont practically and very soverely agauist us. (Fear, boar.) Nobody supposes Unat if we were at war with thé United Stator we should blockade their ports. [ will telf you what we should do. Wo should have a blockading squadron there, and prize money would ow in grent abuadanee, but you woul mover attempt ermetically to real np that eat The cotton would come out, the rate of insarance would rise, aud thus you would get your raw material, but at an inorersed price, In 1812 and 1918 we were at war with the United States. We then imported & considerable quantity of cotton from the Southern States, although it did not, i believe, amount to one-tenth of the present quantity. Hut at that time the very same incidents occurred (1 the House of mons which | have narrated in connection with the more recont case of the Russian war, There was a party in the city of London interested in Brazilian and Indian cotton, just aa in 1856 there were gontlomen in Pris. tol interested in Manila and Indian hemp, and these speculators: ted their mem'vers to moyo in the House for tho absolute exelvion of Amerjoan cotton, Motions were inade to that effect, and Coatlovoagh, then the lendor of the Houae ut Commons, was much em? darrasged on the question, indeed, I am not eure whother &as