Ex Parte Gordon

delivered the opinion of the court. ■

This is an application by the owner of the British steamer Leversons ” for a writ-of prohibition to restrain the District Court-of the United States for the District of Maryland, sitting in admiralty, from proceeding further in a cause begun in that court against his vessel to recover damages-for the drowning of certain persons in consequence of' a- .collision, on the Chesapeake Bay between the steamer and the .schooner “David E. Wolf,” caused by the fault of the steamer.

Sect. 688 of the Revised Statutes gives this court authority to “ issue writs of…