The Sun. — 1870-05-10 (London, England)

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.  To-day Mr. Haviland Burke will ask the Under-Secretary 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 Wedderburn 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 Prosecutors. 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 relations with Spain and Portugal, and to the negotiations 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 inclusive. 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 certain 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 number 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 omens 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 gnat 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.