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defendant and Mr. Greenland, the manager of the tition did not violate any of the rules of the house which
Leeds Bank. The renewals and the original trims- governed the presenting of petitions ; and if the motion
actions amounted together to about £30,000. When was agreed to it would possibly establish a precedent
witness copied the agreement of January, 1864, he which would be very inconvenient to the house.
ATKIN.,, cbhuatrahcteri.sleld the petition as " a con-
was clerk to Edgeley and Co., not a partner. Wit- tnabtlhedoutgoht thatr
temlart.ibWle.
ness had heard a great deal of Van Cleeff as a man all classes cthleessheosneoef
the PcommuPnaftcyr should be e
of repute, but of his own knowledge he knew no- with petitions, whether their grievances were real or
thing. At that time the agreement was drawn upMr. assumed.
Edgeley was much dissatisfied with Van Cleeff, whom The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was of
he believed to have been robbing him, and he was opinion that whilst the liberty of the subject ought to be
anxious of obtaining a concession from Van Cleeff. fi l the
mmitte had
not ordered the petition to be
Witness copied the agreement by Edgeley's direr- printed, and, under all the circumstances of the case, he
dons, but had no knowledge of Van Cleeff up to thought the honour of the army Int.l been watt:lentil- ad-
that time—namely, January, 1861. Witness first vocated, and he trusted the motion would net be pressed.
became connected with Edgeley in Febi nary, 1862. After some observations from Lord Eicao,
?Major AN.soN was willing to withdraw the motion, but
The ledger of Edgeley and Co. was then kept by one
suzdry idnMilb.rs of the back Ministerial d
benches insiste
Green, who had since gone to Canada. (A laugh.) In
1: The'h ';llotthion.rewaapspteharred.f
ere negatived.
for the motion, 11;
a casual way witness had conversations with Mr. against it, 43. ..
E igeley and with Mr. Watts before Jan., 1861. When Mr. TAYLOR called attention to '
theQ:,7een's answer
he copied the recital in the agreement about an to the adaress of the house, voted March 19, on Church-
assignment of a concession of the Forest by Van ward and others, and asked the Hems Secretary what
Cleeff to Edg..ley anl stops had been taken iii Co., he believed that to pursuance of the iutintatiot.
t)10' el irteileafal character of 1 11'.. he
C lion.'i gentleman reviewed th
be the truth, and that Van Cleeff hail become •
bankrupt. He Sir, had been proved clearly believed at that time thatguiltiy-chofw,t7rdp; who, li
bribery,
contended,
bankrupt.
Edgeley wanted to obtain an assignment of the that officer should be enabled to retain hi and
position as ya
concession. Soon after the agreement was come to magistrate after the disclosures which had been made.
Edgeley went to Servia, and was absent five or six Mr. G. HARDY acknowledged that a great difficulty.
weeks. On his return witness saw on his desk a had arisen consequent upon . the vote of the house in Mr.
document relating to the Maydampeck Forest,
sCohnutreedlidwid
ndo'st case.onl
involve The
atdiillress which had been pre-
and he heard Edgeley tell Watts that he had had but of mauy, and pre-
only
Lord Chancellor,ha
ra etert
oofwohnoem individualthe
case
great difficulty in getting it from Van Cleef, who was referred, investigated all the reports of committees for
was a stubborn fellow. He understood Edgeley to be a number of years, but could arrive at no conclusion as to
then referring to an assignment of the concession. how he could act. The Commissions had frequently found
Ile heard Edgeley talk on several occasions after- persons guilty of bribery, but inasmuch as no jury had
wards to Watts about the documents be had got giventh a legalovnerodluicetf,onthtehatin
advisers of the Crown had come
these, as in the matter of Mr.
from Van Cleeff. Besides the book containing the tCohut ce hcward, there was nothi •
-ng to warrant them in punish-
entries of about £ll,OOO represented to have heen ingindividuals.
sent to Servia, a locked ledger was also misssng. Mr. LABOUCHERE called attention to the treaty rola-
Mr: George Brown, residing at Lydden-terrace, tive to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and asked the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs some questions as to
Leeds, repeated the evidence he gave on the exami- the extent of the obligation to which England had been
nation of Devillers, to the effect that he was a desk p -
lodged.
is the Leeds-Bank from 1859 to 1864 ; that after:.
,;1,1,..
8.-GOCIIRANE applauJA the conduct of Lord
the suspension of the bank in September, 1864, he Stanley threughout the whole proceedings.--
examined the securities of the bank and did not find Mr. D. GRIFFITHS and Mr. AYRTON having spoken upon
any concession of the Maydampeck Forest Cora- the subject,
pally from Van Cleeff to Edgeley, or any security
'Lord STANLEY said the Executive had acted in re-
gard to the treaty with a determination; if possible, to avoid
in the name of Edgeley, except a mortgage on pro- war. When the proposal for a Conference was .first made
peep at Bromley-le- Bow for £2,000. he had very little hope that it would be successful, or that
At this point, to suit the convenience of the their efforts would restore peace. He was happy to say
counsel for the defence, the hearing was adjourned that it did succeed. All the facts connected with the fer-
until Saturday, the 21st inst., and the defendant motion of this treaty were given to the public; he had
was again admitted to bail in the meantime—him- withheld nothing, and it was a gratification to him that
self in £2,000, and two sureties in /1,000 each. heretofore the conduct of the English representative had
- -- never been questiOned. As far as our responSibility in
lII.IPERIAL PARLIA.IIENT the new treaty was cowered, 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 bad 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. Danby Seymour, the subject
dropped.
The house went into committee pro forma, and resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. -LAST EVENING.
The SPBAKER took the chair at two o'clock.
VACCINATION 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 operation, and, there-
fore, he thought it highly important that such a law
should be in force in England.
Sir J. C. JERVOISE moved, as an amendment, that
the consideration of the bill be postponed till after the
report of the medical officers of the Privy Council, 1866,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day

shall have been distributed.
Col. BARTELOTT supported the amendment. Ile
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-vaccination 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 wore matters of detail which led to much
difference of opinion, but they could be settled in com-
mittee, and he 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.
Dr. BRADY said that he believed it was the general
opinion of the medical profession that compulsory vaccina-
tion 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 be 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. He felt that the bill was an
exceedingly good one, and ho 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
hte 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 lead
to great inconvenience, and Mr. M. Chambers 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 bo struck out. Dr. Brady
thought the medical man ought to be paid well 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 roan or
at the homes of the parents of the children, and that , the
vac.Anator 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, tecause 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 detined.
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 ho
considered criticised the conduct of this country, both in
Ireland and in India, in such a manner as ought never to
Ibe recorded on the journals of the House. He, therefore,
moved that its reception and printing be cancelled.
Mr. B. COCHRANE seconded the motion.
Mr. W. E FORSTER objected to entertai, 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 his motion.
Mr. MILL observed that if Major Anson was consistent
he ought to follow up his motion for cancelling the peti-
tion by moving his (Mr. Mitre) expulsion from the House,
for there was not a single sentiment in the petition which
he was not prepared to subscribe to. fie felt grateful to the
gentlemen who had signed the petition, in which they had
expressed sentiments that nearly the whole of Eueope en-
tertained.
Sir C. RUSSELL thought if anything justified the
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,
informed the house that the pe-
Xr. DODSON ofaoially

(By Electrie Telegraph.)

GIIATESEXD, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, June 14.—Southampton, from New York
Holmesdale, from Melbourne ; Normania, from Jamaica ;
Irene, from Memel; Staba, from Philadelphia; Victoria
Elferia, from River Plate; Taurus, steamer, from Ham-
burg.
Arrived, Juno 15.—Florenca, steamer, and Moselle,
steamer, from Antwerp; Saxon, steamer, from Stettin ;
Jemima, from Riga; Waterwitch, Rescue, and Sarah, from
Guernsey; Helens Bank, from Singapore; Concord, from
Berbice ; 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; Harmodous
from Cowes, for Brixham ; 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 (iu tow).—Lady Ann, from Colombo, for Lon-
don ; Ethel, from London, for Hobart Town.
Anchored. Plover, from Bftrbadoes, for London :
Glimpse, of Brixham, 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
aro 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 BATTENING.--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 large 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 chary of brutally assaulting Wm.
Newton, on the 21th March last. Thl 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 bas 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 unmanageable, and dashed off at a furious
rate. They at last came with great violence against a
wall. 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 hail 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 on a street, for which one appellation
should be sufficient., The Metropolitan Bdard of Works,
has ordered the following, alterations to lie made in the
names of streets in the metropolis :—Southampton-road,
Regent's-park, to bo re-named Glocester-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 Sidtuouth-street, Grey'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 AM NEON. FrOnt Para we
have a very interesting item of news. It is nothing less
than that throe important tributaries of the mighty
Amazon—the Ucayali, Pachitoa, and Palcaza—have been
successfully navigated by steamers for a distance of 1,227
miles from the embouchure of the first-named.river. This
great service has been rendered by a naval expedition con-
sisting of the Peruvian steamers Marona, Napo, and Pu-
fumy°. They started on their arduous undertaking on
the 12th of November, and on tho Ist of Januarof the
y last
anchored in the port of Maio, with tha exception
Moroni, which stopped short at the island of Passes
. on account of a fall in the
n waters of thcounterede Paduringleazu.
Many difficulties were of course e
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, hor,
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
is
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of the Atezon, and of carrying to the ocean the valuable
natural products of vast and fertile regions of the interior,
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