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112 almost the same words, Sir Wm. Scott (afterwards Lord Stowell), said: "A military war and a commercial peace is a thing not yet seen in the world." Mr. Disraeli remarked that "he could see great calamities following the admission of such a principle. It might make rich communities but it could not fail to make weak nations; and a country that adopted it might disappear in a way that it might be difficult for some people to conceive" Lord Palmerston, who went down to Liverpool in 1856 and made a speech, in which he seemed to lend countenance to the advocates of this principle, by saying that he hoped to see the principle of the Declaration of Paris still further extended, frankly avowed, in the debate in the House of Commons, that "he had changed his mind on the subject." This was six years later, on the occasion of Mr. Horsfall's motion. "With reference to the assimilation of the principle of war at sea to the practice of