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270 INDIA BILL. The committal of this bill was resumed on Monday night. On the clause (22) which adds legislative councillors to the Council of India, for making laws and regulations, a prolonged debate ensued, in re ference to an amendment moved by Sir H. MAD DOCK, providing that three of these councillors should be European or native subjects of the Crown, but neither in its or the Company's service. Mr. Hums moved that it he incumbent on Govern ment to appoint a Hindoo and a Mahoraedan to the Legislative Council. Sir It. bums resisted this proposal, as not cal culated to satisfy the natives, and as wrong in prin ciple. Sir C. Woon opposed both amendments, observing that for some years at least the government of India must be a despotism, but adding that he believed that the employment of natives had progressed as far as was expedient for their own benefit. He ar gued at considerable length in favour of the arrange ment proposed by the bill. Lord STANLEY believed that the bill did not include sufficient or effectual provision for the employment of natives, and wished to have it improved in that respect. He nevertheless could not approve of a proposal which might place in high office unqualified men, who had no experience of the civil service. The debate closed by a division, in which the original clause was affirmed by a majority of 111 S to 33. The committee was then adjourned until Thurs day, when several clauses were carried without, or in spite of, opposition. The 31st clause, fixing the salaries of some of the high functionaries in India, provoked a debate, in which Mr. Bnionr made some personal charges re specting the use made in certain CMOs of the direc tors' patronage. Mr. T. Mats* and Sir J. W. HOOO denounced the animus evinced by the hon. member in attacking the members of the Leadenhall-street board, and called upon him to substantiate his allegation by names and details. This, however, he refused to do, though affirming that his charges were founded upon facts communicated from a respectable and credible source. Sir C. Wool), referring to the salaries of the direc tors themselves, for which the bill makes no pro vision, expressed his readiness to raise them to 1,0001., instead of 500 f., if the house should be favourable to this increase. At the 33rd clause the progress of the bill was again suspended. VACCINATION BILL On Wednesday the second reading of this bill, which has already passed the 1 t pper House, was moved by Sir J. I'AKINOTON. The measure renders vaccination compulsory under pecuniary penalties, M and the right hon. baronet accompanied his motion with many facts showing the unsatisfactory results ► of the voluntary system. The mortality from small pox was greater in England than in almost any other European country ; and in regard to the public wel fare it, was incumbent on the Legislature to devise more stringent means for enforcing the use of the appropriate remedy. Lord PALmniorrox admitted that an ample case had been made out for some improvement in the law on this subject, and the Legislature were especially bound to provide against the spread of a fearful disease, which proved most fatal to the lower and ignorant classes, who were the least likely to exercise foresight and prudence on this account, and there fore stood in greatest need of protection. He accord ingly consented to adopt the principle of the bill, although convinced that considerable alterations were required in its working clauses, particularly those which related to the enforcement of the con templated penalties. Mr. BRADY and Sir O. STRICKLAND opposed the bill ; the hon. baronet contending that any introduc tion of the compulsory principle war objectionable. He wished to have vaccination wholly voluntary, trusting to education to overcome the prejudices now existing against its use. Mr. FRSWEN also opposed the bill, which was read a second time. ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE BILL. The hill for abolishing the duty on attorneys' cer tificates came before the House of Commons on Wednesday, when Lord K. GIIOSVENOR moved that it. be read a second time. The noble lord declared that the modification which Mr. Gladstone had proposed to effect in the amount was more distasteful than the original tax itself. The attorneys had suffered from recent legislation, and deserved a compensation. He had hoped to find the Chancellor of the Exchequer dealing with this and other imposts in a compre hensive manner, instead of clinging so desperately to the rags of taxation. Mr. 31110101r0H characterised the measure as a " sham," which he inferred that Lord It. Grosvenor had brought on only that it, might be defeated, having for that purpose delayed it until the legal members of the house were absent on circuit. THE PRESS. Mr. How, though convinced of the injustice of the tax, felt bound to retain it as being a part of the budget, which as a whole he approved. The CHANCELLoR of the EXCHEQUER resisted the motion on financial grounds. His surplus, as he showed from the figures, had almost melted away under the influence of other reductions. The solici tors' duty he considered could not justly be abolished without also rescinding or reducing the stamp duty on articles of clerkship, and the loss on both items would exceed the amount he could prudently afford. Two imposts now stood before him for selection, both of which had been marked out for abolition by votes of the house, but under very different circumstances, and, as he could not grant both, he thought the advertisement tax ought to bear the first place : " There will be a surplus of from WWI. to 100,111101. left in our hands. What are the demands which are made upon us? They are two in number It is demanded, in the first lace, that we shall repeal the advertisement duty, which will cost tits MAIM.; and it is demanded, in the second place, that we shall abolish the attorneys certificate duty, which will volt eta f40,91NW. more. Now, it is plain that, if both of these duties are to be repealed, we shall have to catty on the financial operations of the year, not with a surplus, but with a deficit. (Hear, hear.) We are asked to give up 11111,1100/. in two sums of 80,000/. each, with the knowledge that, if we accede to both demands, we must start with a deficit upon the financial calculations of the year. At first the opinion of the Government was, that the most prudent course would be to make neither of the alterations proposed ; and upon that condition we submitted our financial plans to the house. You know how those plans were received. I will not speak now of chance divisions taken at a late hour in the evening, but, if I refer to the division taken some three weeks ago with reference to the advertisement duty, I must admit that it indicated a strong feeling and desire on the part of the house that that duty should be repealed. (Cheers.) Our opinion was that it would have been more prudent not to have repealed that duty ; our opinion is that we cannot re peal both duties, and we are not prepared to accede to such a proposition ; but 1 have no hesitation in saying, if the question comes to be between one duty and the oth er—if the house is disposed to press for the repeal of the adver tisement duty in opposition to our views, and if we are to exercise a judgment upon the subject—that we cannot conscientiously secede to the repeal of the certificate duty. (Hear, hear.) We admit, on the other hand, that the house has shown a strong desire fur the repeal of the advertisement duty ; and what we say is, that, if one of these duties is to be repealed, that one ought not to be the attorneys' certificate duty. ( Cheers.)" Colonel SIIITHORP said he had seen many Chan cellors of the Exchequer, but never so bail a one as the present, every one of whose measures he felt called upon to oppose. The house divided : For the second reading Against it Majority —34 The bill was consequently lost. DURHAM ELECTION. The committee on this eleetion have presented their report. They rind that the strayer of the petition under consideration was palpably illusory, and presented the remarkable anomaly of the opponents of a candidate praying that he might be duly elected. That Mr. l'oppork, who adopted the responalbility of this forme( petition, stated it to be. in his opinion, the only means of putting an end to a petition which he believed to be trivolons and vexa tions, and which means he considert4l to he rendered necessary hi consequence of the enure , . adopted by Mr. Brown. That they must regard with L disapprobation an attempt made on the one side to get rid of opposition to a eandidato by the threat of a petition ; and on the other, the defeat of that petition by pre senting another, the prayer of which was avowedly rietitiotts end illusory, and calculated to interfere with the rights of a consti titeney by indueing Parliament to delay the issue of the writ. The emataittee are of opinion that the state of the law, which permits the valuable right of petitioning to he perverted from a remedy for public wrong into a weapon of eleetioneering warfare, deserves the serious consideration of the house. BOROUGH OF PETERBOROUGH. Mr. Ramify on Monday moved for a select committee to In quire into the allegations contained in the petitions of certain electors tuni inhabitants of the city of Peterborough, presented on the Ist of July, complaining of the interference of Earl Fitz• williani, as peer of the realm, at the election in December last, and at previous elections. Mr. Bright read extracts from the petition, in order to show the extent to which the Fitzwilliam in fluence, by means of the Fitzwilliam prtmerty, had been main tained in the city. do paramount and erualting was that influence that the electors, he said, would he content to allow Earl Fitz. william o retina one representative it' they were permitted to return the other. Mr. FITZWILLIAM seconded the motion, believing inquiry to be necessary for the vindieation of Lout Fitzwilliain's character. Themotion was agreed to. THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. In reply to a question (rem Sir J. WALMatiI.Y.Y. Lord J. Rostothi. said he had heard of the seizure of a Hun garian refugee, named Keats. by the captain of an Austrian ship of war at Smyrna. acid of his being carried on board tha t vessel, Mot he had been informed that it was with the e eirrenee of the Turkish authorities. No information whatever had been re ceived as to any demand made by Austtia Mr the expulsion of Hungarian refugees from Turkey. ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. The Citxxcet.Lon of the ExeltEtwEß eti on Than. tiny that the Goventment had deferred to the wish of the majority of the house with regard to the advertisement duty. Mr. 'MOUT inquired when the duty would erase? The Cuascetason of the Earns - 41 . En hoped dune was no reason why the hill should not become law at the end of next week or the beginning of the following week. THE LATE PLYMOUTH ELECTION. Sir J. SHELLEY has placed on the orders of the day a notice of his intention, on the 2nd of August, to call the serious atten tion of the house to the special resolution of the Plymouth elec. thou eonunittee, reported on the 10th day of May last ; and t o move, that the Attonwy•General be directed to prosecute Charles John Mare, Etas.. the late member for the borough of Plymouth, fur bribery and other corrupt practices. SATURDAY, AVINGS BANKS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUICH OU Thursday withdrew the Savings Bank Bill on aceount of the late period of the session, and stated that before the commencement of next session the bill should have further consideration. He observed that, if the security of the country should be given to the deposi tor, it could be effected only under the most efficient control over the management and the funds. CASE OF THE CABMAN PHILLIPS. On Thursday night Mr. BRIOUT referred to the decision of Mr. Henry, the Ikew-street magistrat e, in sending a cab-driver to prison for a month because he did not happen to have five shillings in his pocket to give security for the expense of arm:er ten:nig whether a certain distance was more or less than lime miles. He could not have believed that such a ease was true. were it nut that the newspapers were generally so accurate in their reports of police cases. It appeared to bun to a sort of ease which might very well have happened in Turkey or in Itussia—Wear, licor)—but which ought not to have happened i n this country. He wished to know whether the attention of the home Secretary had been directed to the matter. Lord Miami: from promised to direct an inquiry into the cir cumstances; ut present no information had been given him on the subject. He would, however, entreat the house to suspend their judgment, because, although the reports were generally very accurate ' yet there had been cases i n which very materiale rrors bad been committed. lie hoped, therefore, that in this ease the house would suspend their judgm ent. Mr. Hun,: wished to know whether the noble lord's de partment was preparing a list of distances.' It was the want et' proper distances from station to etetiou that created the whole difficulty. Lord PALMERCTON said there was an officer now employed in measuring distances. _ _ _ _ COUNTRY POLICE. A seleet committee of the House of Commons, in a report just issued, recommend that legislative measures should be intro duced without delay by her Majesty's Government, rendering the adoption of an efficient police force on a uniform principle perative throughout Great Britain. foreign ant( Colonial flitiligentt. [From our own Correspondent.] Pen's, July 21. The Emperor and Empress visited the camp of Satory on Monday, accompanied by General de Lourmel and Captain Execlinens, Naval Aide-de-Camp to his Mtkiesty. The Empress arrived in an open carriage, having on her left the Princess d'Essling. The departure of their Imperial Majesties from St. Cloud on their journey to Pau, which was to have taken place about this time, is momentarily deferred, owing to the uncertainty as to the turn diplo matic affairs may take with Russia, on the receipt of the answer (anxiously expected) to the joint propo sitions of England and France. The Fite NapoNan falling on the 15th of August, the Emperor will be present to receive the customary official compliments. There are still rumours of ministerial changes. M. Fould will inaugurate his nomination to the Ministry of Finance by a projet de loi for the conversion of the 4i per Cents. to :3 per Cents. This important financial measure would require the stamp of success to justify it against the accusation of temerity. It is affirmed that M. de la Guerroniere is to be named "Grand Master of the University." This dis tinguished writer has this week made a great sensa tion by his letter published in Le Pays—journal de tEmpire, which caused a rise in the funds, from its extra-pacific tendency. It is generally credited that M. de la Guerroniere is the chosen depositary of the thoughts of the Emperor—that is always, of those he chooses to give to the public. Hence the im portance attached to all that falls from the pen of this gentleman. The Queen Christina has been receiving visits from all the homrnes marquants of Paris at Malmaison, the former residence of Jose phine. Her Majesty has given two private audiences to General Narvaez. Her visit to Paris is evidently of a political nature ; the return of the general to Spain and to power is said to be among her objects. There are sad doings at the Court of Madrid; and the cabals of the palace impede greatly the march of the Government. Mrs. Beecher Stowe failed to produce any sensa tion here. She is now at Geneva, where subscrip tions of 10 cents. are being raised to present her with a fund for the liberation of black slaves. But the Russians have made the Parisians quite forgetful of everything not connected with their "sweet selves," and have thrown negro philanthropy into the shade. Poor Mrs. Beecher Stowe ! I hope she may revisit Paris when the magnanimity of the Czar may have permitted peace to Europe, and allowed the "pouring out" of more enthusiasm on the talented authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Arrests still continue to be made in the case of the conspiracy against the person of the Emperor, which demonstrated itself at the Hippodrome and at the Opera Comique. There are many foreigners and vagabonds no doubt among the prisoners, but there are others gravely implicated who are French, and of far different standing in society. The I'refect of Police,i M. Pietri, keeps a profound silence among his most intimate friends an to the names of these latter ; and in this he acts justly, until the culpability and degree of culpability