6 JUNE 1868, Page 3

The proposals of the Neutrality Commission are so good and

effectual that they deserve special treatment, for which this week we have not room. We will only say now that we could wish Mr. Vernon Harcourt's proposal, that we should refuse to admit into our ports in time of war any armed vessel whose commission had not been delivered to it in some port of military or naval equip- ment actually held by its own government, had been carried. It would set an example of the highest moment, and perhaps lead to the change of the international rule on the subject, which at present recognizes vessels of war receiving their commissions on the high seas, though without any of their own ports open to them.