The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

The Irish Church Bill being finally out of the way, or
this session at least, allows the other measures which have
hitherto been in the background to come to the fore. The
House of Commons has hard work cut out for it to-night.
There are no less than twenty-nine orders of the day, and
these include such important subjects as the Amendment
of the Reform Bill, Habitual Criminals, County Adminis-
tration, the Rating of the Metropolis, the Municipal Fran-
chise, University Tests, and the Reform of the Beerhouses-
The questions which in practice precede the order contain
just two important queries. 111-r. Hunt makes his inquiry as
to what the Government mean to do about the acquirement
of the telegraphs; and from all accounts a definite answer
will be returned. Mr. Osborne Morgan asks some infor-
mation about the reading of the Riot Act at the Mold
Riots—information which is not made less needful by
the way the inquest was conducted. In Committee of
Ways and Means Mr. Lowe intends to make a proposition
for raising a sum by the issue of Exchequer Bonds. Mr,
Adderley will move that the Habitual Criminals Bill may
be referred to a select committee for the purpose of sub-
stituting a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Agency throughout
the kingdom, to which the supervision of criminals may be
entrusted, instead of to the police, and for
the purpose of adding provisions for the infliction
of corporal punishment during imprisonment for
brutal 'assaults on policemen and others ; and
of more completely carrying out the object of the bill
in punishing habitual disorderly conduct and drunkenness.
Mr. Torrens opposes the laying on of any further burdens
on the people of the metropolis in the way of asylums and
hospitals for the poor until further inquiry has been made.
Mr. Jacob Bright moves an amendment to the Municipal
Franchise Bill which shall give the " female sex of man"
the franchise. The University Tests Bill is opposed by
Mr. Bentinck who will endeavour to prevent it going
into committee, and objected to by Sir Roundell Palmer,
who wishes to make every professor of a university
solemnly declare that be will never teach any doctrine
opposed to the Divine authority of Holy Scripture, or to
the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England.
Mr. Stevenson, on the other hand, likes the bill so well
that he will propose tp extend its previsions to Durham.
The Bankruptcy Bill is up to-morrow, and there are no
end of amendments on this most intricate subject. The
collateral subjects of Imprisonment for Debt and Insolvent
Debtors' Repeal Bill are also down for discussion. Mr.
Candlish raises the subject of the Abyssinian War; Lord
Elcho that of the adulteration of manures; Viscount
Enfield brings in a bill to amend the jury
laws ; and Mr. Pollard-Urquhart calls attention to
the injustice of posting extra police in certain
districts of Ireland. The Marriage with Deceased Wife's
Sister Bill is down fur committee, and has various amend.
ments proposed to it. The O'Sullivan Disabilities Bill
will probably be discharged, the eccentric gentleman wo
called it forth having retired into private life.

On Wednesday there are several Irish bills for discus-
sion, amongst others one for the amendment of the law
concerning the sale of liquors on Sunday in Ireland.
That bill, Mr. Murphy, the member for Cork, opposes on
the ground that the whole system requires remodelling.
The Sunday Trading Bill is also down for committee.
On Thursday trade-marks come under review. The
Mines Regulations Bill is down for committee, and the
bill to amend the law as to salmon fishery is to be read a
second time. Mr. Graves will ask the President of the
Board of Trade what has led to the resignation of the
Local Marine Board of Liverpool.

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