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8 “EUROPE. The Political Situation of Europe. THE BELGIAN DIFFICULTY. Prussia and the Ecumenical Couneil. The New Grecian Legis- lature. ‘The Cunard steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, from Liverpoo) the 3d via Queenstown the 4th, ar- rived at this port yesterday. She brings detaus of our cable telegrams up to date of sailing. A meeting of delegates from the various societies for the protection of animals in Europe is to be held next month at Zurich, The Catholic Bishops of Germany will assemble again in the wonth of September, at Fulda, to con- cert togethtr about the attitude to be assumed in the Ecumenical Council. The Chargé @’Aduires at Constantinople for the North German Confederation has just signed, by order of bis government, a protocol of adhesion to the law concerning the rights of foreigners to hold property in Turkey. The Grecian Ministerial Council has approved the King’s accepting the invitation of the Viceroy of Egypt co be present at the opening of the Suez Canal, and the government will apply to the Chamber for a vote of money to pay expenses of the royai execur- sion. The Count de Cheste, who is to be tried by court martial at Cadiz, has petitioned the Governor of that Place for a trial by civil law, ‘The officers of the Chalons corps @armée gave a farewell dinner to Marshal Bazaine recentiy, which was marked by some speechification, General Feray proposed the marshal’s health. ‘The funeral of the Duggan family took place on the 2d inst. The relatives having declined to bear any portion of the expenses, the cost of the inter- ment fell upon the parochial ‘authorities, The bodies Were conveyed in two hearses to Iiford Cemetery, where the remains of the father, mother and six chiidren were laid in a parish grave, Une of the Parisian Masonic lodges has sent a memorial to General Mellinet, the Grand Master, asking him to use his influence to procure the re- Jease of a number of masons unlawfully arrested daring the late disturbances. ‘The strikes continue at Lyons. The working me- ebanies, joiners, tinmen, founders, &c., have now advanced demands for higher wages. Count Bismarck has had leave of absence granted to him for several months as President of the Prus- sian Ministry, and has been relieved from the duty of attending Cabinet Councils, He has gone to his country seat at Vayzin. ‘The Madrid Politica says that a special messenger gent tothe Emperor of Morocco by the Spanish re- presentative at Tangier, was considerably surprised on his arrival at Fez to flud the gates of that town ornamented with 140 heads of decapitated rebels, The Empress proposes, it is rumored, to give a grand /éte at Versailles, on Tuesday, to the Pacha of Egypt, a3 a compensation for his disappointment at being obliged to renounce the idea of receiving her Majesty as his guest on the occasion of the inau- guration of the Isthmns of Suez, in November next. The Empress did mean to go to Egypt, Constanti- mopie and Jerusalem, but the political advisers of the crown have not thought it right that she should make this tour—at least this year. The screw frigate Berenguela and screw sloop Santa Lucia are to represent the Spanish navy at the opentng of the Suez Caual, efter which these vessels of war will steam through tne canal to the Port of Suez, and thence proceed to the Philippine Isiands where they are to be stationed. The Prussian Embassy at Munich has been non- suited no less than five times by the Civil Tribunal of that city in actions brought against Dr. Sig!, editor of the Wolksboten, for the same number of outrages on King William, Count de Pismarck, and the Prassian government. A verdict gor the defend- ‘ant was given in every case. “It is affirmed,” says the Presse, “that the Prench government has an intention of reducing the effec- tive of the army toa figure of strict necessity, and &s a proof are cited the measures decided on by the Minister of War after the raising of the first series @f the Camp of Chdlons. Marshal Niel, in fact, has ordered the postponement of ali distribution of milt- tary effects in the third quarter of 1969, for the men susceptible of obtaining @ six months’ leave of ‘sbgence,”? ope : ENGLAND. he Political Situatien at Home and Abroad, {From the London Timea, July 2.) Turning to foreign countries, we see no reason for @isquietude, though it would be too much to repre- sent the prospect asclear. To men of business the most important matters are the state of our rela tions with America and the condition of France, both internaliy and with respect to netgh- boring Powers. The dispute about the Alabama claims 18 certainly not more threatening than it Was 4 year or two since. The negotiation with Mr. Keverdy Johnson has not been entirely futile. It has shown that England is willing to make aii rea- sonable concessions to the United States, and it will hencefortn be impossible vo extract a grievance from her acts or demeanor. The Americans them- selves feel this, and though as long as there seemed 8 disposition to yleld on te part of this country we were piled with ivectives and threats, no sooner aid it appear that wewere in earnest in refusing anything further than Mr. Sumner was disowned With characteristic alacrity, and at present there seems Lot to be the smallest desire among the Ame- rican public to push the question in a hostile iman- ner. We cannot help feeling that the treaty was rejectefi as much through party dislike of its Ameri- can negotiators as from jealousy of Eygiand, and there ix no reason to apprehend any such revival of the contrqversy a8 shoud endanger peaceful rela- tions and hamper commerce. The state of France is viewed at present with curiosity rather than disquievade. One cannot hel feeling that a constitutional crisis is at hand whic! Will decide the character of the Emperor's rale during the remainder of bis reign. But, whatever be the course of French politics during the next year or two, we may hope they will not threaten inter- national reiations. Of course a puzzled ruler may always pe suspected of meditating war, as the shortest way to distract the public and baffle the opposition. Yet the war with Prussia, of which every one was full less than @ year ago, is no longer imminent, and the doctrines of M. Thiers have been tacitly rejected by the moral sense of the better order of Frenchmen. If we can oniy remove from the nations of the Continent this hor- rible apprehension of war, which weighs upon them in ery act of lite and che: them in every enterprise, We shall have done more for their prosperity and our own than could be ef- fected by the most mutually liberaf commercial treaties, Since 1866 the animosity between France and Prussia has been one of the chief dangers of the time, and If we are not wrong in believing that it 18 passing away, like the other calamities which the tli-omened 1566 brought upon us, the chief poll tical obstacie wo a revival of mercantile prosperity may be expected to disappear. in otner respects Europe is more favorably situaved than it has been, The Austrian empire is fairly in we path of reform, and we have had recently to call attention to the wonderful revulsion of feeling in favor of the monarchy which marks provinces lately disaffected. ‘ihe settlement of the Cretan dificulty, and the manifestation by Europe of its resolve to uphold the treaty of 1856, have given quiet to Eastern Kurope, and insured an interval for peaceful development. On every side we see a clearer, if not a cloudless, prospect, With a strong government at home, well disposed to husband the hational resources, and with peace abroad We bave the best conditions for an extended trade. A Review of the Overend-Gurney Case. {From the London Datly News, July 3.) The government, in explaining on Ttrursday night its reasons ior refusing to take on its shoulders the Overend and Gurney prosecution, misged the real mt on which their intervention sked. not that the offence charged is usually heinous, nor that the expense is beyond tlle means of @ poor man. On both these heads they had a suiicient answer, when they replied that the Jaw did not compel them to act; that many crimes of deeper aye are constantly being left to private in vestigation, and that the shareholders are rich enough, if they choose to comiine, But the spectal @ause that demands their interposition m the pres- ent instance }:¢s in the fact which boih sides of the House seem to have overlooked, that the prosec: tion has been deciared by the conatituted public suthority vo be just and necessary, and the prosecn- wr has cousequentiy been bound m an immense NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1869.—TRIPLE enalty ta iton. It ts therefore idle for Mr. oniea ‘Sir Robert Collier to urge that if govern- ment ts to take steps at all it should be entrusted with the control of the procs from the beginning. That would have been # very reasonable answer to Dr, Thom, if at the tume when his charge was still unheard be had called on government te take the whole responsi bility of the examination before the Lord Mayor oif his bands? We should in that case Dave recognized il as periectly just that government shouid chose to wake its own investigation, &nd to exercise its own @iscretion as to taking proceedings or not. And had Dr. Thom apphed to itat that stage no doubt he would have received just such an answer. But he anticipated the answer. Athis own risk and ex- pense he carried on the investigation for many days, and he makes no application for aid till the proper tribunal has declared his proceedings not only justt- trabie but necessary, When thts has been done it is prepcsserocs in government to complain that If it ad had the option it perhaps would not have insti- tuted the proceedings at all. The propriety of their bemg instituted is already settled by a court which, while it exists, must be held as of higher autnority thau the Home Omice or the Attomney General. The ony question now 18 whether, after such an autho- tity Nag declared the proceedings vo be essential, the public ought not to pay for their betng conducted to roper termination. And to this it 1s no answer Lo tell us that the whole of the shareholders were greedy fools and that there are some of them rich enough to prosecute tf they choose. The motives of the Suarehoiders are not the pomt in question, and the gulit or imnocence of tue directors 13 in n0 Way affected by the readiness of the pubhe to take doubitul securities, That some shareholders are rich enough to prosecute, but ao not choose W do 80, 18 as liste @ reason for not supporting the gentiean in whose person it has been established that 1 is a auty to prosecute, The fact remawis that the Lord Mayor is the judwe on whom the constitution has imposed the function of saying Whether such & duty should be performed or not, if he is a competent oilicer to have such a function entrusted him the government 1s bound to insure its beimg carried into effect; if he is not a competent officer the go- vernment should say so plainly, and, as a conse- quence, abolish his jurisdiction. Since tie partners in the urm of Overend & Gurney have been commited for trial the presumption ts tiat they a wmity., It is now for them to prove their innocence. If they erred only through want of judgment cruel wrong would be iniheted upon them iw they were deprived of a public opportunity of rebutting the evidence on which they have b criminally committed, — If, being guilty, they were allowed to go scot free a wrong would be done to-society at large. The share- holders mm the company which they launched have no interest in their prosecution which is not shared every other individual. If they are convicted Who have lost their money wil. not regain That the triai should be burked because Dr. ‘Thom does not happen to have money enough to carry it on according to the rules of the Queen’s Bench ts no re: ion either upon Dr. Thom or upon his brother sharebolders, but upoa the misplaced parsimony of the Home Omice. In urging tiat the prosecution shouid not tall through the public press is Nok, as Some Members of Parliament seem to imagine, in‘luenced either by vindictive feclings to- wards the defendants or by any special sympathy for persons who have not taken to heart u puke of Wellington’s advice to remember that “high interest generally means bad securit Our com- piaint is, that government refuses to expend & comparatively insiguliicent sum in order to prevent a scandalous sailure of justice in a matter of pubite interest. That it is of vital Importance to every unit in a society of civilized human being# that crime saowld not go unpunished, and that the proper and impf€rtial administration of the law saould not be defeated by technicalities, or be de- pendent upon the financial means of an individual, we presume no person Wiildeny. With tue result of the trial we have nothing to do, We heartily wist that the defendants may be able to prove their inno- cence of everything except errors of judgment. All we contend for is, that the trial should take piace. Atlantic Telegraph Company—General Meet- ing of the Sharcholders—Report of the Di- rectors. The general meeting of the shareholders in the Atlantic Telegraph Company was held in London on Friday, the 2d inst. The following ts the report of the directors:— The directors have the honor of submitting to the sbare- holders the accounts, made up to the Guth April last, being the end of the financial year. These show a balatice of £51,561 2a, 7d., which, with an amount of £3,684 realized dur- ing te past year by the sale of a portion of the stores on hand, makes a total disposable sum of £04,245 3s. 7d. This suilices,to pay the dividend of eight per cent on the first and second pacference stocks and leaves a balance of £2,893 78. bd. ‘The receipts from thecabie in the early part of the year suf- fered from the great fagnation of trade which prevailed at the time, ‘The later months considerably improved the aver- age, and but for the accident to the cable and the necessity of dealing with two or three {tems y which bad been lett on previous #, there would have remained a more important available for the holders of the ordinary stock. It 1m of about £15,000 has been spent furnishing of stations and buildings of the mail connected with the work- for the aecommodath ing of the telegraph both in Ircland and at Heart's Co: ‘This sum will be further increased, as the directors formed, by about £5,000, when the works are entirely com- pleted.’ These buildings’ were principally ordered by the Anglo-American Company, acting as agents for this company, before the second agreement, which remitted the mauaze: ment to a ort committee, formed from the two boards. ‘The directors View this expenditure wa a charge against capital, The only means available to them for raising i are an issue of that portion of the £100,000 debentures which remains in thelr hands, A resolntion'will be proposed at the meeting pving the ‘sanction of the shareholders to auch iamue. the rectors have, with much regret, to intimate the death of SirE. Cunard, . Cropper and Mr. §. Gurney Rave ‘the Right Hon. James Stuart W the Hon. Robert Grimston, elected in.the place of Hamiiton, and Lord Alfred Hervey, elected m the piace of Mr. Le Breton, retire by rotation, and, being cligtble, oifer themselves for re-election, The retiring auditor, Mr. Black- burn, also offers hitaself for re-election, Alter the reading of the report was concluded the Chairman said that his remarks in amplification of the information contained in the report, and in ex- janation of the accounts, would be very brief. First, fe wighea to explain that be took the place of the ‘on. Jamies Stuart Wy. i of that gen- tieman’s iliness necésalt fig Friars Wal froin all active pursuits at present, bul ja a source of satisfaction to tne shareholders to 1é4rn that the honorable Tarety would still remain a member of the Beard. Advérting to the accofints, he said he wished he coud congratulate both classes of shareholders, and he confessed that the original sharghoiders, who had borne the heat and burden of the day, were to be conte etare now that the con- tinuity of their dividend Was broken, but at the same time the receipts of the compan) were responsible only in a small degree for tnat circumstance. At ine close of last year there were some outa iandin; A. buities which were mot. dealt with at the time, but during thé year under considera- tion those iiabiiities nad ail been ascer- tamed and paid. There were then some legal proceedings pending with some eminent elec- tricians for the use of thelr patents, which it was said the company had infringed from tne first mo- ment of commencing. It was agreed with the advice of counsel to compromise the claims up to that time for the lump sum of £7,000, and also to pay the sum of £2,000 4 year for ten years, and the $7,000 had been paid. Then there was an item of £1,070 for law charges extending over three years, incurred when the company made a great struggle to get the line into its own hands. Next there was £4,322 for the conveyat of a long message in cipher from the American government to its ambassador tn Russia, the charge for which the American government dis- puted, but he thought that the whole of it would eventually come tu, though it was a loss for the moment. Then there came £5,000 odd for the re- pair of the cavle, and those sums—which were altogether exgeptional—added together gave a Woral Of £17,541 16s. @ sum which had been ibed, but which would have otherwise paid nearly’ three per cent upon the whole capital, which went to bear out his statement that if things had remained in their normal condition the original sharenolders would nave got their dividend notwithstanding the badness of ine times, Since the present Board had come into office they had endeavored to economize as much as pos- sible, and had seriously applied themselves to reduc- ing the working expenses. There was an item of £15,000 in the balance sheet for the constraction of bulldings a* the two termini of the cables during the year for the accommodation of the stat, necessary, for the paces at both ends of th were like a desert waste. The entire co: houses would be about £21, cd been paid, and deducted by the Anglo-American from the money paid to the Atlantic. As, however, the buildings included improved instrument rooms and offices, the Board looked upon the expenditure as one to be carried to capital. and proposed taking aresolution empowering them to issue the deben- tures at present uncaucelled to pay this charge. Alluding to the French company and its cable he said it would have to compete with thi grounds—greater accur: a Hon of mony ef and a lower rate, and upon each they would find ita tough job. He con- cluded by moving the adoption of the report and accounts, The Hon. R. Grimston briefly seconded the motion. Mr. Morgan said as there was a balance of £2,000 carried forward, and as the Board had received no remuneration for the past year, he would move that the sui of £2,000 be appropriated to remunerating the director: ‘The motion having been seconded by Mr. Costello, Breton, Bir Curtis 5 les of those 1 ment between the two companies. The original sharehoidera could not expect gentlemen to give up & pre-preference because their poorer neighbors wanted some money. They must look back to the period when the Anglo-American was formed, and when it wouid have been within the power of a few suareholders to prevent the conisact being en- tered into; but the shareholders not feeling inclined to furnish any more capital, the were obliged to make the besf terms they could to secure a rem- ant for Weir shareholders when the eable was at the bottom of the sea. 'The report was then adopted nem. con, AS the chairman was about to put Mr. Morgan's resolution to the meeting, giving £2,000 as remune- ratfon to the directors, Mr. Jackson moved an amendment to the effect that no sum be voted to the directors for remunera- tion until the original sharehoiders got a dividend, ‘This, having been seconded, was put ana lost. Mr. Smith then moved an amendment that the remuneration of the directors be £1,000, ‘Mr. Barnum seconded the amendment, which was put and carried by a large majority, ‘Tne routine business Was then transacted, and the proceedings closed with & vote of thanks to the ohairman. the Nitwo-Glycerime Accident in Wales, {Carnarvon (July 1) correaponaenee of the London ‘Tir The terrible accident we reported yesterday by telegrapa has led to lamentaple resufis, It seems thai four tons of mitro-glycerine formed part of a cargo from Hamburg (Messrs. Noble & Co.) to Car- narvon, consigued to Messrs. De Winton & Co., jor Messrs. Webo & Cragg, Giyurhonwy Slate Quarry, Lianberis, sole agen.s in Carngrvoashire for nitro- glycerine, used instead of ordinary powder for blast- ing rocks, ‘The ship Was mooved in the river Menai and @ portion of the expiosive Oil having been places in the Lianddwyn magazine, the rest was brought in lighters and placed on the quay in Carnar- von. About one o'clock noon, the hour ap pointed to cart that portion to the quarries, some of the vehicles did not arrive, and, aftera delay of some hours, the (WO carters who have been killed under- wok to remove @ poruon Of the nicro-glycermne, These carts left about four on Wednesday aicernoon, for Glynrhonwy Quarry, ove of the numerous qnar- ries lately opeued On the south aspect of the Vaie of Lianveris, aid at the tvot of Snowdon, A portion of the nitro-glycerine was to be removed to-day to the Tinorwie Quar. The other three carts were teft jor the might in a closed coach house, near Bodenal- gate, within a mile of Carnarvon, It being too late to remove te oil Wo the Penrhyn slate quarries. ‘These Full Particulars are now in the custody of the police. The two carts which caused the accident were, it appears, in company, and were noticed within a few yards of cach other just before the ex- plosion. The exact spot where tne accident occurred is where the diversivn of a new road, lately made by the Lianberis and Carnarvon Kau- way, jotus the old road, about 400 yards beyond the centre oi Cwim y-glo village, five miles and a haif from Carnarvon and 300 yards from Pont Khyddalit, the bridge that spans the narrow water uniing the upper aud lower lakes Of Liauberis, At the Une ihe accident occurred Wie quarrymen were revurning aiong the road from their occupations to Cwm-y-glo. village, Waen suddenly, without any warning, the quarrymen in front of the cares and those behind heard one long continuous explosion of terrific noise. ‘This spot being surrounded by higao mountains on three sides tae ecio of the first explosion rever rated several times, as some of those that witness tue accident informed us, aud one mountain seemed to throw the noise with quick succession from one side of tue valley to the other over the lakes, The two lakes, especially the lower, were at once greatiy agitated. Clouds of dust, stones, portions of the carts and the walis around for two roods were either Larown £0 a great lieight or cast longitudinally either into the morass on ove side or the rovks adja- cent. “ A third of the cireumference of a wheel was thrown fifty yards high and fell near a cottager’s garden on the sides of a rocky hill 300 yards off. Portions of fesh and bones (either human or those of the horses) Were collected indiscriminately from a radius of fifty yards and placed in cioths, A foot, a chin covered wiih beard and @ man’s heart were found together about eight yards from the spot. The Cwm-y-yio Ratiway station (the nearest building to the scene of the accident), an inn lately finished, close by, and several (fortunately) unfinished houses a littic further off, as well as @ chapel, pre- sent a desolate sight. The roofs nearest the accident are perforated by falling stones, and win- dow frees lave been blown in aud destroyed. The Massive doors of the goods department oi the rail- Way station are shattered, and windows all reund within a radius of two miles present marks of the explosion. Scores of men were thrown down. Those known to be killed are David Roberts, thirty- five, anative of Denbigh, married, carter; Evan Jones, twenty-two, ‘Tyddyn Liywuyn, Carnarvon, unmarried (son of a Widow, partially dependent on her son), carter; Robert iioberts, Lwenty-six, quarrye man (who had only returned trom America a few Weeks since); a quarryman who was supposed tobe Passing at the time, and another whose name we could mot ascertain, resident at Cwm-y-glo. © About twelve persons have been seriously hurt and as many slightly injured. A leg, and in two other instances arms have already been amputated, und two boys—Owen Joun Roberts and Grimth Pritchard—have suifered in- ternal injuries by being thrown down. The greatest dirtress exists, and even this morning the police were engaged searching the neighborhood of the accident, picking up very small portions of flesh and bone. Such was the terrible power of the oil that the spot where each cart is supposed to have been at the me of the accident is marked oy two deep perfectly circuiar holes of the same size, each Ineasuring seven feet s.x inches in diameter and seven leet deep and a horse length apart. The stones appear to have been subjected to a rotatory motion, and tne holes are in the shape of an inverted cone. Our correspondent, Who was at the time of the acci- dent sitting at afriend’s table in Bangor, ten miles of, experienced a shoch and heard the rattling of windows at five minutes before six, about the time Oxed by those who witnessed the accident. The shock es experienced wore or loss for many miles around. IRELAND. The Orange Riots n Portadown. The Englisi journals of the 34 inst. contain the following particulars of the late disgracefal proceed- ings of the Orangemen at Portadown on the night of the 2d inst.:— : Intelilgence has just arrived of a most serious and disastrous riot that occurred at Portadown on Fri- day night, The cause of the affray has not as yet been accurateiy ascertained, but the riot is supposed to have originated in a few. unarmed policemen hay- ing extinguished a bonfire that had been lighted by some children at Quarrys Turns, This proceeding appears to have exasperated the Orangemen, who suddenly mustered in strong force and commenced an organized attack on the police, who in the mean- while had been reinforced by a few of their com- rades, also unarmed. Stones were thrown in volleys by the rioters, and the police soon turned and fled, hotly pursued by their assailants, The police, on reaching their juarters, Ob- tained their rifles, armed with which eight of them paraded that part of Bridge street situated in Edenberry. ‘They were again attacked and pelted with stones by an immense crowd of between two and three thousand people. At first the police contented themselves with firing in te air, upon which a cry was raised to the effect that they dared not fire and that they had only blank cartridges. Emboldened by this the mob then renewed their attacks on tne con- stabulary and pursuedg@he men as far as the bridge, stones rattling like hail on them. On reaching the bridge the police turned and fired again, tha time with fatal edeci—a boy in the empioyment of the Ulster Railway Company, named Thomas Watson, @ Protestant, being shot through the Iungs and killed, and a man named Tiffney, a Roman Cathouic, dangerously wounded by @ shot in the shoulder, ‘fhe police are ail more or less injured by stones and one of their body is seriously furt. The distarbance was quite unexpected» but the Orangemen are so exasperated that it 1s ed that further riots will follow. FRANCE, The Belgian Railway QuesiionPresent Posi tion. ‘The Paris correspondent of the London Morning Herald writing on this question says:— , What is going on respecting the Belgian question? No good, I am afraid, ‘To-day the Patrie reiterates the statement made by the Havas telegraphic agency yesterday, that England has recommended Belgium to give Way. ‘Tlis would seem as though her Majesty’s Ministers had really been guilty of this oeuce against Our most important, hough weak, Continental ally, which French semi-o@lcials are so overjoyed at. But though Mr, Gladstone, Lord Cla- Fenton and Mr. Bright are in office 1 cannot belleve it true. That Austria should truckie to France in this shameful way may be accounted for by a variety of reasons, With France preponderating in Belgium Mr. Jackson, who objected to the motion as & holder of the eight per cent, felt almost ashamed to take his dividend, Knowing that the original share- holders got nothing. He could not conceive how the Board could wish to take remuneration whtie the shareholders got nothing. He contended that the whole of the present success was entirely due to the original shareho! cause It Was by the expert ence gained by the expendivure of their capital that the two cables were subsequently laid. He remindea the Board of the promise of Sir Richard Giass, given ai the iast imeeting, that all imterests should be wlti- mately fused upon equitable Lerms, and eonsidered tuat If the Board were really acting in the mterests of the Atlantic Telegraph shareholders they would take some steps in the matter, Mr. Fieid endorsed the renfarks of the last speaker, and thought it a matter tor deep regret that we vables should be managed by two boards of direetora and joint committee, He thought the expenses extremely large, more especially as the Board had taken ho remuneration, The tnformation i the re- port and accounts was very meagre, and he hoped that in future more information would be atforded in those documents. He also complained of the dit- ficulty experienced tm getting information at the oMice, and that the statement which had been al- lowed io become current in the to the effect ‘that four per cent wonld be ali th ould be paid to ‘the eight per cent preserence hoidera should not have been contradicted. ‘the Chairman, in reply, said the present Board took ofice under a well considered aud legal agree- there would be @ political counterpoise to the ag- grandisement of Prussia, which could not be unac- ceptable at Vienna; but that England should debase herself by furthering the humiliation and the politi- cal extinction of the little State she contributed: to create and pledged herseif to protect 1s something too monstrous to believe. Even the Manchester school must recoil from complicity in such @ crime. Ia it possible that the subject will not be brought under the notice of Parliament? If any honorable member chooses to ventilate the suuject the follow- ing article of the Paris Patric might be useful a8 & Ecree worm of any remarks he might choose to make;— ‘We have announced that the Powers the London oonferenoes of 1861, whi ie tone Pesogion of the vernmen a centl the mom fHendly advice at Brussels fat veoreeearde et understanding with France, This intelige ‘eon: rmed by « despa im London and anc We wil add that England and Austria have eopensed at gpinion that the demands put forth by ue (Pranes) do not, directly or indirectly, affect the neutrality of Belgium, There jndioatens SE's, of whatewer importance It might have pow ‘act announced by a great number. of fo- reign” papers that an. Engfish’ adiedran was about proceed to the Scheidt. "Here, however, If to the rumor in queation, nt has ordered the ntting out of ting of two frigates, two cor and two intended to wall round th world, under Kear to vieit the various English establiahmenta Then to form two divisions, and were to make trial trips to seaboard. The and corvette Beylla were to vinit the Deen abandoned, and that the squadron bas just safled from Piymouth for Braz? - ‘ Is there a syllable of trath in all this, or is 18 all mere fiction ? Another Grand Canal Scheme. ‘The Pail Mati Gazette of the 2d has the following in reference to the grand French scheme of connecting the Rhone with the Mediterranean by means of & canal:— While kings and peoples are preparing to celebrate the apotheosis of Pager and the French are in- duiging in the magnificent vision of pringing the sea to Paris from Piappe af the trifling cost of 800,000,000 francs, a canat leas ambitious pretensions, but perhaps of equally great practical utility, has been rapidly adv: towards completion without at- tracting the notfce tts importance deserves. The Khoue, which traverses so large a part of France as # navigable river, i8 Yayo ly useless for purposes or foreign trade, owing to the bar of ahittlag sand which obstructs Its mouth, Some years ago an en- gineer Simones: the possibility of uniting this river wita the Mediterranean by @ canal. His plan was adopted, and at a probable cost of 12,000,000 francs this most important work will be terminated be.ore the end of the year. ‘The canal 1s twenty feet deep, and willenter the Mediterranean at the Goliede Foz, between Cette aud Marsetiles, GERMANY. Prassia and the Ecumenical Council. {Berlin (June 30) COEF RRREOAEOR London Daily News. ‘The Prussian {cedar nas had the credit of being on particularly friendly terms with the Pope for some time past; but this feeling will certainly not prevent its resisting the resolutions of the Ecu- Menicai Council ia case they should be of such a character as is generally expected. Prussia has far too large @ Catholic population to allow of her remaining an Inditferent spectator should the Coun- cil attempt to tamper with the relations between @ Protesthnt sovereign and his Catholic subjects. The semboulcial Worth German Gazete has a short aragraph which clearly points In tnis airection, t commences with observing that the reason alleged by several governments for declining the Bavarian proposition for some joint action against the resoiutions of the Koumenical Council was the uncertainty what these resolutions would be, and the impossibility of choosing their measures beforehand. According to the French papers it was Count Beust, more especially, who raised Uns objection in a despa to Count Ingelheim, the Austrian Minister at Munich. On this the Worth German Gazette remarks that the objection would be plausible if there was not already sufficient evi- dence as to what the character of the Council and the mature of its resolutions would be, but that the composttiontof the sub-cominittees, who will prepare the programme of the proceedings, leaves no doubt on this pomt. All the leading members of these committees are the most decided and zealous part sans of ultramontanism, so much so as completely to coniirm the opinion that the great object of the Council will be to give additional strength to that system, especially in its relations to the secular power. Under these circumstances it is impossible to blame the various governments if they Cand commence their preparations for resisting any suc encroachments on the part of she Catholic Caurch; indeed tueir adopting such an attitude may prevent the expected conflict. GREECE. Opening of the Hellenic Chambers—Constitu- tion of the Present Legislative Body—Good Things Expected. [Athens (June 19) arene ae of the London mes, The King,opened the fourth Legislative Chamber elected during his reign on Thursday, 17th, with a Speech, in which he noticed the two great evils that trouble his kingdom and weaken his government— brigandage and a depreciated paper currency. Leg- islative measures to Suppress the firat and a loan to put an end to what his alajesty with truth charac- Uerizes as “the injurious effects produced on the prosperity of the country’? by the second, are to be submitted to the Chamber. Legislation concerning Ministerial responsibility, the qualifications of the Greek legions 01 officials im all public departments and the canalization of the Isthmus of Corinth is also to be introduced by the government, ‘The first business of a Greek Chamber is to review each election and determine its legality before the House is duly constituted to proceed to business, and this usually occupies at least two months, and may occupy three. [tis needless to enumerate the objections to this mode of proceeding. Temporary circumstances induce the Greeks to follow a systein which causes so great a waste of time. Some delay and pubiic discussion at the commencemsnt of eacl new Chamber has hitherto been extremely useful a8 @ means of moderating the factious dictation of the predominent majority. ‘The constitution of 1864, Whatever may be its defects, has worked well so far, for it has enabled the Hellenic King- dom to resist the shock of four general elgc- tions of a single Legislative House by universal suffrage, ten complete ol es of Ministry during the ee Space of six years, and an annually in- creasiifg financial deficit. Even in countries where every man at a royal levée and in a diplomatic ball- room 1s not a place-holder or a place-hunter such a concentration of political excitement would be a Violent strain on the government. Since 1965 noth Mr. Kouinoundouros and Mr. Bulgares ha¥e been each three times Prime Minister, and a younger bint gd Mr. Deligeorges, has been twice Prime inister. The present Chamber is said to represent public opinion more fairly, and to be more independent of party feeling, than any representative Chamber that Has been elected since Greece became a constitu- tional monarchy by the revolutiou of 1843, with the sole exception of the National Assembly of 1862. Tae government of Mr. Zaimes has abstained from all in- terference with the elections and abandoned the sys- tem of supporting Ministerial candidates. Mr. Zaimes, being himself Minister of the Intertor as Well as President of the Council of Ministers, is en- titied to claim the principal merit of this measure of political honesty, and he has been rewarded, not only with well merited praise, but also witha con- siderable increase of influence. The followers of the two rival party dictators, Koumoundouros and Bul- gares, have been less successiul at the election than was generally predicted, and the number of indepen- dent deputies who are inclined to support an honest rather than a party government has been increased to an unexpegted extent Honesty has proved the best policy éven in pol ities, the tirst time it has been tried fn @ contest for power in Greece. If Mr. Zaimes would display more administrative energy in executing the duties of the difficult post into which he was accidentally inducted, in reforming the army, and gaining a large addition of financial capacity to his Cabinet, the country would see him retain office with pleasure. The man who had courage to resist the rival party dictators, Koumoundouros and Bul- gares, and boldly to reform the wasteful expenditure introduced into the civil, military and financial ad- |. ministration by the first and the arbitrary party gov- ernment by which the second has darkened the future prospects of Greece, would secure the appro- bation of the people and probabiy command the support of a majority of the present Chamber, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The Austrian government has allotted the sum of 400,060 florins for the purchase of two monitors for river navigation. On the return of the Great Eastern to England she will immediately start for India with a fresh cable which has to be laid between Bombay and Suez. The Court Journal, of London, mentions that the Empe ror Napoleon has resolved to confer upon Mr. Ferdinand de Lesseps the title of Duke of Suez. Henceforth money orders are made payable be- tween Belgium and Great Britain at the same rates of charges as those stipulated throughout the United Kingdom. The Seigian government has granted a first sub- sidy of $300,000 towards completing the system of fortification of Antwerp. This measure has been adopted, doubtless, on account of the recent misun- derstanding with France, As soon as the Cortes shall have ceased their sit- tngs,*Marshal Prim will proceed to Vichy, where an apartment has been already taken for him in one of the hotela. General Cordova will be charged ad tmterim with the Ministry of War. Marshal Serrano, the Spanish Regent, nas received from the King of Portugal, by the hands of the Mar- quis de Niza, the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword of Portugal. Marshal Prim has also been honored with the same decoration. Crime is as rife in the holy city of Rome as in any other city. The papers mention the following curious meidents that occurred during one day re- cently:—-The body of @ well dressed iaan was found in the river, having seventeen knife wounds; @ man cut his wile’s throat with a diamond, a sqn_mur- dered his mother, and achild, abandoned by its mo- Wer in the streets, was devoured by dogs. About four months back M. Wilson, while dining at the Maison ’Or, in Paris, with three young mein- bers of the Jockey Ciub, made abet that he would be elected beputy. The conditions of the wager were that he should receive @ louls for every vote he obtained more than Nis adversary, or should pay in the same proportion if he was in aminority. As the new Deputy for the Indre-et-Loire obtained a hatin of 12,997, @ good round sum will be due to im. In consequence of the Yacht Club not having com- pelied the yachts in the barbor of Cork on the 26th ult. to exhibit bunting in honor of the Queen’s coro- nation, Rear Admiral Warden would not permit the usual decoration of the men-of-war at the regatta in Queenstown, alleging tiat the club had been want- in respect to her Majesty. The club having been informed of this, and that at the Admiual’s table they were spoken of as half Fenians, directed the removal of the Admirai’s name from their list of patrons and vice presidents, ‘The Engineer, of London, publishes the following curious statistics of the weekly produce of the various manufactories in Birmingham:—14,000,000 of steel pens, 6,000 iron bedsteads, 7,000 guns, 300,000,090 of machine screws, 100,000,000 of buttons, 1,000 saddies, 6,000,000 of copper and bronze coins, 20,000 balls, 40,000 Vp ed weight of papier maeh work, £30,000 worth of jewelry, 20,000,000 of feet in length of wire, 40,000 pounds weight of ngedies, 20, junds of harping, 18,760,000 of hooks and eyes, 10,000 dozen fire irons, 3,600 pairs of bellows, 160 sewing machines, &¢, ‘The Street Car Murdere—Hearing of Railway Board Back Down and Yield to the Companice—Swinburue’s Last Job—The Streets to be Cleaned. ‘The Board met at one o’clock yesterday, Bosworth, the President, Brennan, Manierre, Henry Smith and Stone only being present. The subject of pro tecting le at the junction of the Harlem and Belt Railroads in Fifty-ninth strect was taken up, when Chauncey M. Depew appeared for the Hariem Rail- road, and stated that in 1865 his company had offered to join the Belt Railread in put- ting on flagmen and bear a portion of the expense; but they declined, and instead issued @ general order compelling all conductors o the street car line to stop the car, and, going on the track of the Harlem road, look for trains, Ifa train was within six blocks he was compelled to await the passage of the train before passing. Mr. Bishop, of the New Haven road, explained that they merely run over the track of the Harlem road by agree- ment, and had no other control of the track. 0. H. Tucker, of the Belt Railroad, stated that the grade where they crossed the Harlem road was five feet above their track, A thousand feet was not enough to give suiicient impetus to ascend the grade, ‘rhe company had used all the caution tn their power to avoid accidents, but in some cases they had oc- curred, . Mr. Lincoln asked why the flagmen had been taken off. Mr. Depew answered that it was owing to the re- fusing of the Belt Railroad Company to bear a por- tion of the expense of a flagman. Mr. Bishop stated that on their line they had had as many accidents growing out of the mistakes of the flagmen as at points where no flagmen were em- ployed. If the conductor of the street cars was compelled to proceed ahead, examine tie crossing and signal his car there would be fewer passengers injured, Laid over for future consideration. THE STREET CAR ACCIDENTS. Mr. Lincoln announced that at a late meeting of the Board a resolution was passed calling ror the protection of the front platiorms of cars, and an in- Sh epeciy extended to railway men to confer with the Board, The following gentlemen responded:—Messrs. Dickson, Superintendent of the Second Avenue line; Tucker, Central Park and North and East River line; Butler,’ Sixth Avenue line; Sullivan, Brooklyn City liné; Riehardson, Atlanlc Avenue and East New York, All these gentlemen expressed their expert- ence as decidedly against the protection of the front platforms, Experience had shown that as many accidents occurred on the rear platforms as in front. ‘rhe representative of the Sixth Avenue line stated that some six years ago his Conthamy put up iced and chains and found that accidents increased. They consequently abandoned the chains and gates. Very few accidents occurred Jo passengers, nearly all being children playing on the streets. Mr. Dickson stated that the Third Avenue ime carried twenty- two million oaesen ses last year, and had but six accidents resulting from getting on or off the front latiorms, 2 ‘The eubject was-iaid over for the future action of the Board. - THE BROOKLYN ACID NUISANCE. Mr. Hastings, counsel of the Board, submittea the evidence taken before the referee as to the manufac- ture of acetic acid by Sprague & Close, of Brookiyn.* He recommended that a permit be refused until such time as the Board are convinced that the works are properly conducted, the more so as he understands that the District Attorney proposes to oring the mat- ter before the Grand Jury at an early day. Mr. Spencer, for the manufacturers, opposed the revoca- tion of the permit. He stated that outside of the officers of the marine corps, who were the com- plainants, there had been no complaints. Even the evidence of the chemist of the Board, Professor Chandler, shows that it 1s not so serious a nuisance as reported, and he saw no reason why it should be considered @ nuisance, District Attorney Morris, by invitation of Presi- dent Lincoln, addressed the Board, stating that he had contemplated laying the matter before the Grand Jury, but learning from Dr, Styles that the Board had the nutsance under consideration he had not done so. If the Board did not take action ne was prepared to call the attention of the Grand Jury to 1t, as he had pledged himself to its abolish- ment if possible. Mr. Hastings suggested that the original order be rescinded, and that the firm be permitted to go on manufacturing from six o'clock A. M. until six o'clock P. M. until further orders. On motton of the counsel the firm were permitted to continue the manufacture for one week, and that at the end of that time the Assistant Sanitary Superintendent and the chemist of the Board report upon the subject, the order in the meantime to be suspended, STREET CLEANING. Dr. Harris submitted the report urging the clean- ing of the following streets as often as twice per week in addition to the cleaning performed by tne street contractor. Those streets marked with an asterisk (*) are only to be cleaned in the gutters. ‘The doctor recommends that this service be per- formed in the interest of public heaith fora pe- riod of two months:— * Washington street, from Battery to Duane, Greenwich street, from Battery to Warren. *Morris street, entire length. Rector street, entire length. “Carlisle street, entire length. Thomas street, entire length. Albany street, Trinity place to North river, ‘West street, Liberty to Fulton. Fulton street, Greenwich to North river. Vesey street, Greenwich to North river. Park place and Robinson street, West to Broad- way. ‘Thomas street, Church to Hudson. Jay street, Hudson to North river. Beach streot, Hudson to North river. Hubert street, Hudson to North river, Laight street, Hudson to North river, Vestry street, Hudson to North river, *Desbrosses street, Hudson to North river. Watts street, Hudson to North river. *Cana! street, Hudson to North river. King street, Varick to North river. West Houston street, Macdougal to North river, “West Broadway, Canal to North Moore, "York street, entire length. Cherry street, Franklin square to Pike, Hamilton street, entire length. *Division street, Chatham to Grand. Pear! street, entire length, Worth street, entire length. Leonard street, Church to Baxter. *Croaby street, Howard to Bleecker. Mulverry street, entire lenatn, *Mott street, entire length. *Elizabeth street, entire length. Bayard street, Baxter to Division. Chrystie street, entire length, Broome street, Bowery to Ludlow. Norfolk street, entire length, Suffolk street, Division to Delancey, *Ppitt street, entire lengih. * Willett street, entire length, Sherif street, entire length. Jefferson street, entire length, Montgomery street, entire length. Scammel street, entire length. *Jackson street, entire length. *Thrid street, First avenue to avenue D. *Fourth street, First avenue to avenue D. *Fifth street, Second avenue to avenue D, *Eighth street. avenue B to avenue D, *Ninth street, avenue B to avenue D, *Eleventh street, Second avenue to avenue D, *pwellth street, First avenue to avenue C. *Thirteenth street, First avenue to avenue 0, Fifteenth street, First avenue to avenue B. Sixteenth street, First avenue to avenue 0. *Seventeenth street, First avenue to avenue B. *Kighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twentys first streets, entire length. First avenue, Fifteenth to Thirty-seventh street. Thirty-seventh street, First to Second avenue, Thirty-eighth street, Third to First avenue. Twenty-sixth street, Seventh avenue to North river. Twenty-seventh street, Seventh avenue to North river. ‘Twenty-elghth street, Seventh to Eighth avenue and Tenth to Eleventh avenue, Thirty-first street, Sixth to Eighth avenue, ‘Thirty-second stag | Sixth to Lighth avenue, ‘Thirty-third street, Sixth to Hignth avenue, Thirty-fifth street, Kighth to Eleventh avenne. Thirly-seventh street, iting to Twelfth avenue, ‘Thirty-eighth street, Pig ith to Twelfth avenue. Forty-eighth street, Eleventh to Tenth avenue. Fiftieth street, Tenth to Kighth avenue, Fifty-second street, Kighth to Tenth avenue, Fifty-third street, Eighth to Tenth avenue, Fifty-fourth street, Eighth to Tenth avenue, Fifty-seventh street, Firat to Lexington avenue, Filty-ninth strect, First to Third avenue, Second avenue, Sixty-frset to Sixty-fitth street, Wighty-eighth street, Third to Fourth avenue, 113th on a bit to ites avenue. d Assistan' janitary Superiniendent Morrt }- poriea that the following streets in the Harlem dis. rict required cleaning once per week for two months, at @ Cost of forty dollars per week to the Board:—109th, 110th, 111th, 112th, 1isth, 114th, 116th and 116th, from Second to Fourth avenue; 117th, 118th, 119th, 120th, 12ist, 122d, i2sd, 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th, 128th and 130th streets, from Fifth avenue to Kast river; the gutters of Fourth avenue, from 124th to 140th street; Second avenue, from 109th to 130th street; First avenue, 109th wo 125th street, On motion of Mr, Mayierre it was ordered that Washington, Morrs, Desbrosaes, Rector, York, Mott nd Elizabeth streets be cleaned twice per week, that the gutters of the above stueets ried by Ir. Harris be cleaned ana disinfected twice & week, and that those reported in the Harlem district by Dr. Morris be also cieansed, the Whole appropriation for this week not to,exceed $600, to be taken trom ‘the Comptroller's fund. GHNERAL HRALTH. Dr. Swinburne submitted a letter addressed to im by the owmers of the Atlantic steamship line, taking issue with Dr. Harris’ report that the vessel amd not the cargo conveys the yellow fever and choiera, and asking that the vessels o1 the line be permitted to come to i docks in time to jeave on their regular sailin; ays This called up @ diacusaton, ‘dutlog which Mr. Henry Smith advo- cated the permitung of the vessels to come up, Dr. — Swinburne strenuously urgea that the request be ited. Mr. Lincoln opposed it, a8 did also Dr. larris, who during his remarks stated that numer+ ous cases of cholera existed in the city, and in the ease of & sea captain, who died, the best physiciang Pl it chotera imported trom Havana. The subject was laid over, THE OFFAL DOCKS ‘The evidence taken before a referee in the case of the New York Rendering Company was submitted and argument made, ie counsel for the company, as usual, Irightenea the Board into permitting thé alleged nuance to continue for a week at least, when the Board may or may not taxe action. THE FAT BOILING QUESTION, The evidence taken before the referee in the cas@ of the Board against Pennier's fat boiling esiablish- ment in Thirty-cighth street, which came up in the form of an order for its discontinuance, was sub> mitied by the attorney and argument heard. The | same disposition was nade of this nuisance as in that of Sprague & Chase, acetic acid manufacturers. The Board took a recess wutil three o’clock this: afternoon, when the question of permitting the Havana steamers to come up will be acted upon, THE VREELAND ABAVLOiMENT CASE, The Hearing Adjourned at Request of the DefenceAnother Affidavit from a Domese tic—She Swears to the Murriage of the Pare des to this Suit. The Vreeland abandonment case was to have come up yesterday afternoon at Kssex Market Police Court, before Justice Mansfield, but owing to the absence of some of the counsel for the defence thé hearmg was adjourned till to-day at two o'clock. ‘The particulars of the charge, the mode of the arrest of the defendant and the evidence on pree vious days of examination have been already published exclusively in the HERALD, and the only matter of interest worthy of recording yesterday will be found below. Mrs. Vreeland an@ her daughter, as also Mr. Vreeland, were in court, and the court room was crowded yesterday afternoom by persons who had come thither under expectation of hearing rich and racy developments. Mr. Snebly, the counsel for Mrs. Vreeland, was ready and anxious to go on with the examination, but two young men who appeared in the place of the counsel of Mr, Vreeland objected to any examination taking place in the absence of Mr, Vreeland’s lawyer, Mr. Snebley stared that he had @ witness present who was about to leave the city and asked that her afiidavit might be taken. This was objected to, but as Mr. Snebly contended that she was avery important witness Justice Mansfield allowed hor ‘ailidavit to be read, ‘the following is the ‘ AFFIDAVIT OF A SERVANT, Delia Gill, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That she has been acquainted with Mr. George Vree+ land, the defendant, since April, 1865; that she was at that time in the employment of Mrs. Harriet L. Johnson, who kept @ boarding honse at No. 626 West Twenty-second street, in the city of New York; that deponent acted as chambermaid and waitress; thap at that time Mrs. Vreeland was boarding with Mrs. Johnson, anda that Mr. Vreey land was in the habit of calling to seé Mrs. Vreeland, tien Mrs. Myers, about twice a week; that depoment attended to the door and was in the habit of letting him in; that some time in the early part of June, 1866, George Vreeland, the de- fendant, came to the house of Mrs. Johnson to board and occupied the back parlor as his bedroom}. that said Vreeland remained and continued to board with Mrs. Johnson, in Twenty-second street, untik some time in Au, 1865, when this deponent left the employment of Mrs, Johnson, Mr. irs. Vree~ land remaining as boarders at the time deponent left; deponent further states thac at the time Mr. Vreeland came to board at the house of Mrs. Johnson it was understood and ‘spoken of by the persons in the house that Mr. Vreeland and Mrs, Myers were to be married in a short time, that she (Mrs. Myers) had writien to her triends in Boston, and that a8 soon as some of them came on they would be married; deponent further states that letters were received by Mrs. Myers informmg her of the iliness of some of her friends and that.they could not come on; deponent further states thatin about tem days or two weeks after Mr. Vreeland came to board at the house of Mrs. Johnson deponent went into the room of Mr. Vreeland for tire purpose of changing the towels, which was always done on Wednesday and Sundays; that Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Vreeland were in the room, and deponent heard Mr. Vreeland say to Mrs. Johnson, “As Carrie has been disa} pointed in her friend coming in from Boston, will you go to-clay and stand up with us to be married;”? Mrs. Johnson first made some remarks about her being in a black dress, and also sald that she could not go until she gave her (boarders their suppers, but said she would have their suppers early; Mr. Vreeland thea requested her to have & car- riage ordered for eight o’clock that evening; that deponent after tea went to the room of Mrs, Myers and assisted her in dressing, and came down to the parlor with her, where Air. Vreeland and Mrs. Johu- son were waiting for hers that deponent saw Mr. Vreeland, Mrs. ers and Mrs. Johnson leave the house and get into a carriage (hat was standing in front of the door, as was then said, to be married; that about an hour and a half aiter the party teft in the carriage by, Stee heard the carriage driving u| to the house; leponent ran up to the front door an saw Mr. Vreeland and Mrs. Vreeland and Mrs. Joins son coming up the si ; the lades walked into the arlor; Mr. Vreel: remained in the hall @ lew minutes to pay the driver of the carriage and then went into the parlor also, Deponent further says that ina short time, after Johnson came down into the oasement and cut some cake and put itona tray, requesting deponent to put on some glasses aud the tray to the parlor; Mrs. Johnson, then went up to the parlor, deponent following. her, with the cake and games j that deponent remained in the parlor until the cake and wing were passed around ; that mir. Vreeland then gave this leant @ glass of wine ; that Mr, and Mrs, Vreeland wera congratulated by th rsons present, an this deponent eard aie Vreeland “acne that this was the last time he other remarks t married; that he had to go to two domi- nies before he got the knot tied. Deponent further states that Mrs, Johnson directed her to put on clean linen and fix up the room occupied by Mrs. Myers; that Mr. and Mrs. Vreeland would occupy that roomy it deponent did flx up the room and knew that Mr. 4 occupied that room from seeing them there the next morning when she went up to call them to breakfast; that deponent was in the breakfast room waiting on the table when Mr. and Mrs. Vreeland came into breakfast, and heard the congratulations and jokes that were passed about their marriage; that from that time Mrs, Myers was always called Mrs. Vreeland, and was treated by, Mr. Vreeland and all the persons in the house and those who visited the house as Mr. Vrecland’s wife. Deponent furthel Ww marriage a carriage came to the door and depouent took a valis» and bandbox for Mrs. Vreeland to the carriage, and Mr. aud Mrs. Vreeland got ito the Carriage to go on a@ visit to her friends in Boston; that Mr. and Mrs, Vreeland returned in about a week and then occupied the back parlor; that Mr. and Mrs, Vreeland continued to occupy the parlor until about the latter of July, 1865, when Mrs, Vreeland again paid a visit to ner friends in Boston; that Mr. Vreeland always spoke of her as his wife, and in Speaking to her always called her his wife; and de~ ponent has frequentiy heard Mrs. Vreeland, in his presence and hearing, introduced as his wile; that Mr. Vreeland on two’ occasions, during Mrs. Vree~ land's visit to Boston, gave deponent letters to maih for his wife addressed ‘Mrs. George Vreeland;”’ that deponent left the employment of Mrs. Johnson some time in the month of August, 1565, When this affidavit had been read and sworn to by the witness, Delia Gill, Mr. Snebjy handed it in to the Justice. The defence asked fof an adjournment till to-day, in order to cross-examine the witness, which application was, as has already been stated, granted by the magistrate, ANOTHER PHILADELPHIA MYSTERY, Supposed Murder on the Delaware River=A Boat Covered with Biood Found Adrift. {From the Philadelphia Post, July 14.) Atan early hour yesterday morning a resitent of Smith’s Island found a batteau adrift in the channel between the islands, The Harbor police were notl- fled, and they rowed it to headquarters, Noble street dock. In the boat were two caps and a rope, which were saturated with human blood. The gunwales and seats of the boat were aiso smeared with blood. Subsequently the name of the owner of the batteau was ascertained, but he could not be found. It 9 rumored that a party of men who went on @ shore party on Monday were seen on, the batteau late that day. None of them have been arrested as Fie) and if they should turn up it Is expected that they can throw some Fight on the mystery, Last evening a man of about thirty rears called at the Harbor police station, and of Tisutenant Smith asked possession of the boat, say~ ing that the boat was the property of his (the claim ant’s) brother-in-law. He gave the name of the boat as the “Amanda Maliva,” which proved to be cor- rect. He was closely questioned by the lieutenant, and stated that the boat had for a long while been tied up at the wharf of Balder & Adamson, Port Richmond, and had lately been taken to Point Airy, where it had been offered for sale. He denied knowing anything about the boat, further than that he knew she hat been left at Point Airy. The biood he knew nothing about nor bad he seen one in the boat. He was, how- ever, detained on suspicion. From the appearance of the boat a desperate struggle must have taken alse’ The gunwales and seats bear the marks of joody hands, as if made by some one while en- deavoring to save himself from be! own ove! board. , lt is supocens, that a horrible edy has been perpetrated; that the party or parties have firat been ved and then shoved into the water, where they drowned, bo: @ batteau pass Dy the ialand about o'clock on Monday night, It contained three men. andawoman, Ail hands were acting in a borster- ous and quarreisome manner, but he cannot say whether the boat found is the one which the parties occupied, The Addison (N. Y.) Advertiser contains an adver. tsement from @ man in Woodhull forbidding other people giving aid and comfort to hia wife, who, he says, has “icit him ti cempany with @ gentlemap named Vecker,”