. Review of reviews and world's work . l remodeling of the rules of practise withreference to contraband, involving the outrightabolition of the right of destruction and the sub-stitution (worked out by Great Britain in thepresent war) of preemption for , the abolition of the belligerent right ofblockade. Fifthly, the retention of the bellig-erent right of capture of enemys commerce asdefined by the Declaration of Paris. The advantages of such an arrangement arefairly apparent. Great Britain would lose herright of blockade, it is true, but as has beenalready indicated she
. Review of reviews and world's work . l remodeling of the rules of practise withreference to contraband, involving the outrightabolition of the right of destruction and the sub-stitution (worked out by Great Britain in thepresent war) of preemption for , the abolition of the belligerent right ofblockade. Fifthly, the retention of the bellig-erent right of capture of enemys commerce asdefined by the Declaration of Paris. The advantages of such an arrangement arefairly apparent. Great Britain would lose herright of blockade, it is true, but as has beenalready indicated she could probably never againhope to distend this right as she has done in thepresent war. On the other hand, because she isan island, she must always remain most vulner-able to the exercise of blockade by an , the appeal which the suggested compro-mise would make to neutral interests wouldguarantee its observance in any ordinary war,in which a limited number of belligerents wouldbe bidding for neutral favor. For while the su-. NO MUZZLE FOR HIM (The guardian of his life, property and the freedom of the seas for the world) From the Daily Star (Montreal) perior naval Power could speedily expel itsenemys shipping from the sea, the gap would besoon filled by neutral shipping; and by the samesign the control which superior naval strengthexerts to-day even in peace time over a rivalscommerce would be appreciably is one point at which the arrangement justoutlined might be improved from the point ofview both of the British and the neutral interest,and that would be by adopting the British sug-gestion at the Second Hague Conference to throwoverboard the whole doctrine of contraband. This,however, is a suggestion to which our own Gov-ernment would be most likely to file a non fos-sumus. Not to give the thing too fine a point,we have always to remember that to the south-ward we have a dangerous and treacherousneighbor. Should we become involved in warwith Mexico,
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