The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-10 00:00:00

PARLIA3IEIVTARY BUSINESS.

Now that the Irish Church Bill is through committee,
the House of Commons will, for a short time before the
holidays, be able to devote themselves to the consideration
of some other measures now before Parliament. Twenty--
one orders are entered on the paper for this evening ; but
Mr. Gladstone intends to propose that the orders of the
day be postponed until Mr. Corrance's motion
relative to pauperism and vagrancy in England is dis-
cussed, after which the bill for the new law courts is to be
brought in by Mr. Layard. The University Tests Bill
stands on the paper for consideration in committee, but it
is scarcely likely that this—the twentieth order--
will be reached to-night. Mr. Morley will want
to know of the Attorney-General how soon the
amended Bankruptcy Bill will be ready, and on what daY
he expects to go into committee ou this measure. Lord
John Manners intends to ask the Chief Secretary
for Ireland whether it is the intention of the Government
to introduce any measure for the better protection
of life in certain districts of Ireland. On going
into committee on the Civil Service Estimates, ]dr.
Candlish has given notice that he will call attention to the
imperfect audit of the public accounts, and to the failure
of the departments to lay their accounts before the
Auditor• General. The Municipal Franchise Bill will be
launched into committee, when Mr. Dilke intends to
move that wherever the masculine gender in the bill occurs
the words shall be held to include women.

There will be a morning sitting to-morrow for the pur- •
pose of reading Mr. O'Sullivan's Disability Bill a second
time, and to give the Mayor of Cork an opportunity of
explaining his recent language at an evening banquet in
Cork. Mr. Maguire will move as an amendment
that the bill be read a second time on that
day six months, which will doubtless give
rise to a lengthened debate. In the evening Mr'
Fowler (Cambridge) proposes to call the attention of the
House to !Ale state of the law as to the duty charged on
the succession to real property, and as to the exemption
from probate duty of certain descriptions of property;
M,•. Staveley Hill wants a select committee to inquire into,
and report upon, the operation of the commercial
treaty with France, and particularly as it affects the silk
manufactures in this country ; Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen
will make another attempt to bring in a bill for the esta-
blishment of county financial boards ; and Lord Elcho has
given notice to call attention to the adulteration a
manures. The Beerhouses Bill, which is proposed for
committee, is the first order of the day,

Sir Wilfrid Lawson's Permissive Prohibitory Liquor
Bill comes on for second reading on Wednesday. Colonel
Jervis intends to move that the bill be read a second time
on that day six months ; in the event of the amendment
being lost, Mr. Donald Dalrymple (Bath) will endeavour
to refer the measure to a select committee. The Admi-
ralty Jurisdiction (County Courts) Bill is also down for
second reading.
Thursday will be occupied with the Irish Church Bill,
the report on which will be brought up by Mr. Gladstone.
About twenty amendments will have to be disposed Of,
when the bill will be ordered to be read a third time after
the Whitsuntide holidays. The Courts of Justice Bill is
intended to be read a second time, as also Mr. Trevelyao
Greenwich Hospital Bill. On the motion that the Civil
Offices (Pensions) Bill be considered in committee, 'Ur'
Tom Collins will propose that the bill be taken into COol'
mittee on that day six months. It is exceedingly
probable that the adj urnment will take place on Thuns•
day night, the holidays to last a fortnight.

TRADE DISPUTES,

The lock-out of plasterers and masons at Leeds maY
said to be near its end, as the numbers out of employment
diminish every day ; but a report of the present state of the
strikes and lock-outs in various towns, shows that there are
sn strike at Birmingham, 25 ; Cheltenham, 2; Liverpool,
14; Manchester, Salford, and Hulme, 334; Sunderland, G ;
total, 381. Locked out :—Blythe Marsh (Staffordshire), 8'
Bolton, 79 ; Bradford, 118 ; Coventry, 7 ; Leeds, 112 ; Lynn'
6; Sheffield, 101; St. Helen's, 18; Swinnerton (Stafford-
shire), 21 ; Wakefield, 10 ; total, 480. Aggregate number ea
strike and locked out, 861. The report shows that thi°
number is very small as compared with the thousands wbc'se
notices are still pending. The position of affairs at the
South Yorkshire collieries, where the men are now out, 104 •
not changed during the week, whilst the committal of a
number of them for assaults, &c., has had a most saluteri
effect. At Denaby Main, where it has been usual for /be
old hands to go close to the colliery, and escort thoS°
who had been at work to their homes with whistles, droll
flags, and hooting, there is now great quietness, an
the men are able to go to and fro withcut molestatiaa.
A dispute has arisen between the weavers employed bla
Messrs, Berry and Turner, Folly Hall, Huddersfield, an
their employers, and it has resulted in the parties aPPeat;
t
ing before the magistrates. The men were summoned '°
breach of contract, and the magistrates held that the der
should give fourteen days' notice, and granted a case I°r
the opinion of the superior court on the point in dig:i,le,
At each of the Over Darwen Mills, where a strike t°°l,
r,
place on Thursday, deputies from the operatives had lute,
views with their employers. They urged that a redoetio
would be ruinous to them, as they had lately suffered 60
much from bad material. With two exceptions, the inast,e,:r
agreed to defer the reduction, and promised that a belo
material should be supplied. One master refused to postpOt
the reduction, and a number of the men remain on strike. At
another mill'ithe operatives have resumed work, but 1.'31'0
given 14 days' notice. The masons who have for some til°
past been engaged upon several large buildings in Kirkealci ,
and neighbourhood have left off working. The rate of Ncg4eit
of late has been 51d per hour; the demand, short of whit
nothing will satisfy the workmen, is now Gd. per hour. I'llo
ployers have refused to accede to this demand ; hence t
strike. The lock-out of the masons at Crieff has teron,
noted much sooner than was anticipated. It seems that ac,
r
cording to the union rules the men acted irregularly ja ;:e
gard to the nine-hour movement, which, together With 0,
determination of the masters to resist the demand, brouP
°l.ic.
the disputa to a close. All the journeymen resutned
on Thursday on the old term., namely, ten hours a daY•

The last rail completing the junction of the lig°
s (•,t ioL s of the Pacific Railway was formally laid to•day.
It is stated that Murphy, wounded at Perry, Wen:
tifies Barker as having fired the shot that killed Craig. Dal

ker has been released on tail.
It is rumoured in the City that a clerk it
At
ono of our most extensive banking firms, MO
the confidence of his employers, has absconded within thei
last few days, havin secured booty to an extent not i_
divulged, but which g 011%4 expresged in lover thap
figures.