The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

To-day Mr. Haviland Burke will ask the Under-Secre-
tary of State for India whether the memorial of the Newab
Nazim, forwarded in October last from England to Lord
Mayo, was received earlier than the month of March, and
if not, how the delay is to be explained.. Sir David Wed-
derburn will move for a select committee to inquire into
the system of conducting public prosecutions in Scotland,
with the view of amending the system if necessary,
and of extending the institution of Public Pro-
secutors. Mr. Raikes will call attention to the
hardship of • disallowing promotion to medical
officers serving on the West Coast of Africa, and Mr.
Akroyd will speak with reference to our commercial rela-
tions with Spain and Portugal, and to the nego-
tiations now pending for a treaty of commerce,
and will move that the duties on certain wines
shall be reduced in order to obtain the admission
of British goods into those countries on the terms of the
most favoured nations. Mr. Whalley will ask that a
select committee may be appointed to inquire into
the mode of assessing the income-tax leviable
under . schedule D. Colonel French will ask that
writs may be issued for Sligo and Cashel, and Mr. Callan
will afterwards move that the issue of the writs may be
postponed for a month, in order that leave may be given
to bring in a bill to enable the electors to vote by Ballot.
Mr. Hibbert will move for a return respecting the capital
and interest of Savings Banks funds in the hands of the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt for
the years 1859 to 1869 inclusve. Mr. James Lowther will
move for a select committee to inquire into the operation of
the Acts relating to corrupt practices at elecions, and
also for a select committee to inquire into the truth of the
allegations contained in petitions recently presented to
the House praying for an inquiry into the conduct of cer-
tain of the election commissioners. Mr. Stacpoole will
move an address for returns of the number of Fellows in
Trinity College, Dublin, and at Cambridge, and of their
average incomes at each University ; also of the num-
ber of undergraduate students at both institutions. The
adjourned debate on the Ballot Bill will be resumed, and
also the debate with reference to public schools.
On Wednesday the Benefices Bill is among the orders of
the day for second reading. On Thursday prior to going
into committee on the Womens Disabilities Bill, Mr.
Bouverie will move that the House should not resolve itself
into committee till that day six months. and Mr. Raikes
will move that a clause be inserted enabling the votes of
persons enfranchised by the bill to be given by voting
papers. On Friday Sir John Pakington intends to move
an address to the Crown, praying her Majesty to issue a
commission to inquire into the great loss of life
and property at sea during the last few years.
and to consider whether the regulations with respect to
collisions at sea and the stowage of cargo cannot be
amended. Dr. Brewer will call the attention of the House
to the unsatisfactory working of the intentions of the
Legislature in behalf of the houseless poor consequent on
the practically indiscriminate distribution of relief to all
applicants, whether criminal or not criminal, imposters or
genuine poor.—Mr. Cowper Temple will call attention to
the dismissal of Mr. Edward Barry from the office of
architect to the Houses of Parliament ; and Sir John Hay
will ask Mr. Childers to lay upon the table of the House
any regulation which prohibits naval officers on half-pay or
retired pay from writing letters to the public journals.
Finally, Sir Roundell Palmer will call the attention of
the House to the circumstances under which the Secretary
of her Majesty's Legation at Athens, and two English
gentlemen in his company (together with the Secretary to
the Italian Legation at the same Court), have recently
been seized and murdered by armed banditti, suffered to
be at large in the neighbourhood of Athens, and will ask
whether her Majesty's Government are able to state to
the House what measures have been or will be taken to
obtain from the Greek Government such satisfaction for
this outrage as her Majesty is entitled to claim according
to the Law of Nations, and to ensure the due protection,
for the future, of the lives of the diplomatic servants, and
other subjects of the British Crown, within the kingdom
of Greece.