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London, England, 1867-06-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LAST EVENING.

The SrßAKzit took the chair at two o'clock.
VACCIN&TION BILL.

On the motion for the recommittal of this bill,
Lord R. MONTAGU stated the objects of the bill, the
chief of which was to assimilate the law of England with
that of Scotland, which made it compulsory that all chil-
dren be vaccinated within six months of birth. The fear-
ful disease of small-pox had greatly decreased in that
country since the law had been in operatioa, and, there-
fore, he thought it highly important that such a law
should be in force in England. .

Sir J. C. JERVOISEmoved, as an amendment, that
the consideration of the bill be postponed till after the
report of the medical officers of the Privy Council, 1866,
shall have been distributed.

Col. BARTELOTT supported the amendment. He
thought it highly inexpedient to pass such a stringent
measure before any inquiry had been instituted whether
vaccination was right or wrong. He thought, under
such circumstances, it was extremely hard to make all
heads of families liable to a fine of 205., who neglected to
apply for and fill up certain forms set forth in the act.
Mr. BRUCE supported the bill, which he said con-
tained no new proposal, as compulsory vaccination was at
the present moment the law of the land. All the measure
did was to collect the whole of the scattered enactments
on the subject of vaccination into one bill, which intro-
duced great improvements in the machinery for
carrying it into operation. The • bill made ex-
ceptions in case of the state of health of the
child; and with respect to the efficiency of vaccination, he
stated that the principal medical officer of the Smallpox
Hospital, whose experience extended over twenty years
led him to the opinion that in cases of non-vaccinatiou the
deaths from smallpox was 3to 1, whilst the proportion
amongst those vaccinated properly the deaths were only
lin 300. He thought nothing but prejudice stood in the
way of a general adoption of the safeguard, and the sooner
that was broken down the better. The bill proposed that
the public vaccinators should be adequately remunerated,
and that registrars should also :participate in the improved
scale of payments proposed by the bill. lie was quite
aware that there were matters of detail which led to much
difference of opinion, but they could bo sAtled in com-
mittee, and ho therefore hoped the house would proceed
with the bill. _ _

Mr. HENLEY objected to the details of the bill, and he
was strongly opposed to that portion of the measure which
made it compulsory for parents to bring their children to
the various stations for vaccination, because such an ar-
rangement was likely to produce very bad effects. He
thought it should be optional whether vaccination was
done at the parent's home or the station; and, further, he
thought the attempt to drive the people to do that to
which they had an objection was not likely to result in a
very great success. _ _

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Dr. BRADY said that he believed it was the general
opinion of the medical profession that compulsory vaccina-
tio❑ was necessary for the welfare of society, and there-
fore he should give his support to the bill.
Mr. LOWE thought that the poor children who die
through not being vaccinated ought to ba as much con-
sidered by hon. gentlemen as those children who, they
said, were submitted to the pain of having four punctured
wounds inflicted on their arms, and then having them re-
opened on the eighth day. Ho felt that the bill was an
exceedingly good one, and he therefore hoped the house
would go into committee, and thereby do something
towards• perfecting a measure which was calculated to
diminish the deaths from small-pox, which swept off the
people by thousands.
Mr. KENDALL was in favour of the bill, but ho hoped
the enactment relating to the huddling the poor people
together in vaccine stations would be altered.
The amendment was negatived without a division, and
late house went into committee on the bill.
Clauses 1 to 4 were agreed to without amendment.
On clause 5 a discussion arose relative to the duty of the
Government inspector going round the country examin-
ing the children to ascertain whether vaccination had
been well and successfully done, upon which the reward
of the medical men would depend.

Mr. HENLEY thought the proposal was likely to load
to great inconvenience, and Mr. M. Chambars thought it
a reflection upon the medical profession that a Govern-
ment inspector should go round to ascertain whether me-
dical gentlemen of high honour had done their duty ; he
therefore moved that the clause be struck out. Dr. Brady
thought the medical man ought to be paid wall for his
work, and then there would bo no necessity for rewards.
The clause was ultimately agreed to.
On clause 6 being proposed, which enacted that children
should be brought to appointed stations for vaccination,

Mr. HENLEY moved to strike out the words " ap-
pointed station," in order that vaccination might take
place either at the house of the appointed medical man or
at the homes of the parents of the children, and that the
vaccinator might receive payment for the operation per-
formed under such circumstances, because as the bill stood
the vaccinator was only to receive payment for those
children vaccinated at the station.
Lord ROBERT MONTAGU would not oppose the
amendment, kee,ause that appeared to be the object of the
bill.
The amendment WAS withdrawn on the understanding
that the intention of that part of the clause should be more
clearly defined.
Dr. BRADY then moved his amendment, which related
to the remuneration public vaccinators should receive.
The house was engaged on this discussion up to seven
o'clock; when the sitting was suspended until nine.
On the re-assembling of the House at nine o'clock,
Major ANSON drew attention to the petition of "E.
Truelove and others," which had been on the 3d of May
ordered to be laid on the table of the house, and which be
considered criticised the conduct of this country, both in
Ireland and in India, in such a manner as ought never to
bo recorded on the journals of the House. He,"therefore,
moved that its reception and printing be cancelled.
Mr. B. COCEIRANE seconded the motion.
Mr. W. E. FORSTER objected to entortai ing such a
motion as that before the House, seeing that six weeks had
transpired since the petition was presented.
Mr. C. FORSTER, as Chairman of the Petitions Com-
mittee, said it was not in their power to reject the petition,
and recommended Major Anson to withdraw hie motion.
Mr. MILL observed that if Major Anson was consistent
ho ought to follow up his motion for cancelling the peti-
tion by moving his (Mr. Mill's) expulsion from the House,
for there was not a single sentiment in the petition which
he was not prepared to subscribe to. Lie felt grateful to the
gentlemen who had signed the petition, iu which they had
expressed sentiments that nearly the whole of Europe en-
n •
tertaied.
Sir C. thin ustified the
RUSSELL thought if an j
motion before the House, it was the speech just delivered
by Mr. Mill.
Mr. REARDON reminded the house that the petition
was presented when there was a very full house, and that
no objection was then raised to its reception.
After a few words from Mr. D.. Griffith, Mr. Neate, and
Colonel North,
Mr. DODficON officially informed the hotteo-that•the pe-

tition did not violate any of tho rules of the house which
governed the presenting of petitions ; and if the motion
was agreed to it would possibly establish a precedent
which would be very inconvenient to the house.

Mr. WATKIN characterised the petition as " a con-
temptible paper ;" but he still thought that all classes of
the community should be enabled to approach the house
with petitions, whether their grievances were real or
assumed.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was of
opinion that whilst the liberty of the subject ought to be
accompanied by restrictions, it would not have been justi-
fiable if the committee had not ordered the petition to be
printed, and, under all the circumstances of the case, he
thought the honour of the army had been sufficiently ad-
vocated, and he trusted the motion would not be pressed.
After some observations from Lord Et.cno,
Major ANSON was willing to with lraw the motion, but
sundry memb.•rs of the back Ministerial benches insisted
upon a division, when there appeared for the motion, 11;
against it, 43. The motion was therefore negatived.
Me. TAYLOR called attention to the gazteu's answer
to the ad tress of the hour:., voted M troll 19, on Church-
ward and others, and asked the lloni3 Seeretsry lot
steps had been taken in pursuance of the intimation
therein contained. - The hon. gentleman reviewed the
political character of'Mr. Csurchward, who, he contended,
had been proved clearly guilty of bribery, and asked why
that officer should be enabled to retain his position as a
magistrate after the disclosures which had been made.

Mr. G. HARDY acknowledged that a great difficulty
had arisen conseplent upon the vote of the house in Mr.
Churchward's case. The address which had been pre-
sented did not only involve the character of one individual
but of many, and the Lord Chancellor, to whom the case
was referred, investigated all the reports of committees for
a number of years, but could arrive at no conclusion as to
how he could act. The Commissions had frequently found
persons guilty of bribery, but inasmuch as no jury had
given a verdict, the legal advisers of the Crown had come
to the conclusion that in those, as in the matter of Mr.
Churchward, there was nothing to warrant them in punish-
ing individuals.

LABOUCHERE called attention to the treaty rela-
tive to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and asked the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs some questions as to
the extent of the obligation to which England had been
pledged.

Mr. B. COCHRANE applauded the conduct of Lord
Stanley throughout the whole proceedings.
Mr. D. GRIFFITHS and Mr. AYRTON having spoken upon
the subject,
Lord STANLEY said the Executive had acted in re-
gard to the treaty with a determination, if possible, to avoid
war. When the proposal for a Conference was first made
he had very little hope that it would be successful, or that
their efforts would restore peace. He was happy to say
that it did succeed. All the facts connected with the for-
mation of this treaty were given to the public ; he had
withheld nothing, and it was a gratification to him that
heretofore the conduct of the English representative had
never been questioned. As far as our responsibility in
the new treaty was concered, it must be remembered
that England, with other Powers, had in 1839 given a
guarantee—plain, clear, and unconditional—that Luxem-
burg should be held by Holland. It was true that all the
Powers who had signed this treaty may be called upon,
either separately or collectively, to preserve the neutrality
of the duchy, but the risk of disturbing the peace of
Europe was far less now than previous to the meeting of
the Conference.

After some remarks from Mr. Goschen, Mr. Sandford.
Mr. Kinnaird, and Mr. Dauby Seymour, the subject
dropped.

The house went into committee pro Amu, and resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

(By Electric Telegraph.)

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, June 14.—Southampton, from New York
Holmesdale, from Melbourne ; Normania, from Jamaica ;
Irene, from Memel; Stabs, from Philadelphia; Victoria
Elferia, from River Plate ; Taurus, steamer, from Ham-
burg.
Arrived, June 15.—Florence, steamer, and Moselle,
steamer, from Antwerp; Saxon, steamer, from Stettin ;
Jemiina, from Riga ; Waterwitch, Rescue, and Sarah, from
Guernsey; Helens Bank, from Singapore; Concord, from
Berhice ; Johanna von Shubert, from Wolgast, Schwan,
steamer, from Bremen; Belgium, steamer, from Ostend;
Triton, steamer, from Boulogne.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed, June 14—Flying Cloud, brig, from the north,
for the west ; Asterope, from London, for Canterbury ;
Brilliant, yacht, from Cowes, for the river ; Ilarmodeus
from Cowes, for Brixhatn ; George Fox, of Sunderland,
and Mermaid, of London, from the north, for the west;
Standard, barque, from Shields, for Carthagena.
Passed.—Thames, barque, and Bomarsund, from Shields,
for Carthagena. _ _ _ _

Passed (in tow).—Lady Ann, from Colombo, for Lon-
don ; Ethel, from London, for Hobart Town.
Anchored. Plover, from Barbadocs, for London;
Glimpse, of Brisham, from the west, for London.

MACKEREL.—From 50 to 60 tons of mackere
were caught on the Cornish coast in the week ended on
Wednesday, and sold at from 12s. to 17s. 6d. per six more.
The season is rapidly drawing to a close, and preparations
are already being made by many of the boats for the pil-
chard fishery. Nearly 2,500 tons of mackerel have been
despatched by rail this spring from Cornwall to London
and the important provincial markets.
CASE OF RATTENING.- —Within the last few
days four bands have been maliciously cut at Owen's Tire
and Axle Works, Rotherham. As the long continued de-
pression of trade has, by the receipt of a largo order, shown
some signs of drawing to a close, this disgraceful act has
excited much indignation both among the proprietors and
the general public. Every effort is being made to dis-
cover the offenders, and to hasten their apprehension a
reward of .£6O has been offered.

ASSAULT BY TRADES' UNIONISTS.—On Wednes-
day Wm. Clayton, aged 21, a blacksmith, who had been ap-
prehended under a warrant, was brought before the Black-
burn magistrates on the charge of brutally assaulting Win.
Newton, on the 24th March last. The affair arose out of
the strike of iron-workers at Blackburn. Clayton pleaded
guilty to the offence, but urged that he acted under the
instigation of the ringleader, Scott, who was his foreman,
and who had influenced him to leave his work. The bench
at first sentenced the prisoner to a month's imprisonment,
but afterwards consented to give him the alternative of a
penalty of £5 and costs.—Manchester Courier.
A deplorable accident has just taken place. at
Ems. Count de Kielmansegge and his wife were taking a
drive in the neighbourhood, when the horses, startled by
a cart, became urmanageable, and dashed off at a furious
rate. They at last camo with groat violence against a
w.ll. The Count was thrown from his seat, and in falling
received so severe a wound on the head that he died on the
following night. The countess sustained no injury, but
the carriage was broken to pieces and the horses killed.
FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT.—The North British
Mail records a sad accident on Loch Ascog, near Rothesay.
On Monday evening, a party of four, including Mr. Dun-
can Macfarlane, teacher, and a young man named Mac-
kenzie, his assistant, were out in a boat upon the loch
fishing, and, after enjoying about a couple of hours' sport,
they put back towards the shore, but hag not proceeded
far when a sudden squall swamped their little craft. Two
of the party gained the shore, but the two named, after
clinging for a long time to the capsized boat, sank from
exhaustion and were drowned._
ALTERATION OF STREET NAMES IN LONDON.—
We are glad to see a movement made in this direction,
when the object is to reduce the number of names which
have been bestowed ou a street, for which one appellation
should be sufficient. Tho Metropolitan Board of Works
has ordered the following alterations to be made in the
names of streets in the metropolis:—Southampton-road,
Regent's-park, to be re-named Cilocester-road ; Winchester-
street, Kentish-town, to be re-named Bassett-street;
Mary-street and Brook-street, Euston-road, to be re-named
Stanhope-street; Regent -place, Regent-square, to be in-
corporated with Compton-street ; and Regent-place East
with Sidmouth-street, Gray's-inn-road. The subsidiary
names in St. George's-road, Southwark, to be abolished.
The subsidiary names in Arthur-street, Waterloo-street'
Lyndhurst-road, South-street, and George-street, Camber-
well, to be abolished. The houses iu all cases to be re-
numbered.

NAVIGATION OF THE AMAZON. —From Para we
have a very interesting item of news. It is nothing less
than that three important tributaries of the mighty
Amazon—the Ucuyali, Pachitea, and Palcazu—havo been
successfully navigated by steamers for a distance of 1,227
miles from the embouchure of the first-uarned river. This
groat service has been rendered by a naval expedition. con-
sisting of the Peruvian steamers Marona, Napo, and Pu-
lump. They started on their arduous undertaking on
the 12th of November, and on the let of January last
anchored in the port of Maio, with the exception of the
Morona, which stopped short at the island of Passos
on account of a fall in the waters of the Paleazu.
Many difficulties were .of course encountered during
the ascension of the respective rivers, in consequence
of their being unsettled and unchartered, and some canni-
bal Indians on the banks had attempted to destroy the
brave little exploring party. Their attacks were, however,
vigorously repulsed, and at a place named Chontaisla the
savages sustained a loss of 25 killed. 'I he successful
voyage of this expedition is destined to lead to great com-
mercial results, for it has demonstrated the possibility of
supplying several departments of Peru, possessing a popu-
lation exceeding half a million, with foreign goods by way
of the Amazon, and of carrying to the ocean the valuable
natural products of vast and fertile regions of the interior,
after a navigation from Maio, situate on the eastern slope
of ,the Andes, of no less than 3,500 miles. Such is the
field soon to be thrown open to the commerce of the world
by the inauguration of the free navigation of the Amazon.
—The Rio Janeiro Correspondent of the Brazil and River
. -

HOLL AND.

The King of Holland haF just signed a decree
ordering the demolition of the fortresses of Mae..
stricht, Venloo, and Bergen-op-Zoom.