PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AFTER EASTER.

The Commons reassemble on Monday the 31st instant ; the Lords on Tuesday the 1st of April.

The programme of business in the Commons is extensive. The fol- lowing is a selection of the more important "Orders of the Day" and at Notices of Motion."

Monday, March 31—Committee of Supply : Civil Service Estimates. Courts of Common Law (Ireland) Bill : second reading.

- Joint-Stock Companies Bill : Committee. Criminal Appropriation of Trust Property : Bill to amend the law. (Attorney-GeneraL) Criminal and Vagrant Children : Bill to amend the mode of com- mitting such children to Reformatory and Industrial Schools. Sir S. Northeote.)

y, April 1—Salaries of County Court Judges : Address. (Mr. Roebuck.)

Poor-laws : sill to amend. (Mr. Bouverie.) Corporation of City of London : Bill for the better regulation. (Sir George Grey.) Earnings of Married Women : To bring under notice the state of the law affecting married women as it relates to property and their separate earnings, with a view to its amendment. (Sir B. Perry.)

Wednesday, April 2—Medical Profession Bill : Committee. Factories Bill : second reading.

Aggravated Assaults Bill : second reading.

Thursday, April 3.—Transportation : Select Committee to consider how far and in what direction recent legislation and the substitution of other punishment for transportation has influenced the existing amount of crime. (Mr. Scott.)

Specialty and Simple Contract Debts : Bill to abolish distinctions. (Mr. Malin.)

Friday, April 4—Vice-President of Committee of Council on Educa- tion Bill : second reading.

Wills and Administrations Bill : second reading.

For subsequent weeks there are set down— Monday, April 7—Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill : Committee. Cambridge University Bill : second reading. Tuesday, April 8—Income and Property Tax : Motion for an equitable ad- Wustment as regards uncertain and fixed sources of income. (Mr. Muntz.) ednesday, April 9—Oath of Abjuration Bill : second reading. Thursday, April 10—Education : Lord John Russell's Resolutions. lhesday April 15—Maynooth : Motion for withdrawal of endowment. . (Mr. Spooner.) Fall of Kars : Motion on the subject. (Mr. Whiteside.)

Wine-duties : Motion for reduction. (Mr. Oliveira.)

Wednesday, April 23—Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Bill : second reading. Wednesday, April 30—Church-rates Abolition Bill : Committee.

Among tho motions for which no day is fixed there are—

The Ballot : Mr. Henry Berkeley. . Improved Barrack Accommodation : Lord Ebrington. Purchase of Simpson's Crimean Drawings : Lord Elcho. Foreign Enlistment : Army and Navy Rewards : Sir De Lacy Evans. Flogging in the Army : Mr. Ewart. Regimental Schools : Mx. Sidney Herbert. Central America : Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Religious Teach- ing and Worship in Ireland : Mr. Mall. Order of the Bath : Sir Charles Napier. Torture in the East Indies : Mr. Otway. Decimal Coinage : Mr. J.13. Smith. Army Medical Department : Mr. Stafford. Parliamentary Representation : Sir Joshua Walmsley. Education in Ireland : Mr. War= pole. Bill to substitute one form of Oath for the three now required to be taken : Mr. Walpole.

In the House of Lords, the following business may be noted— Thursday, April 3—Torture in India : Earl of Albemarle to move for returns.

Friday, April 4—Agricultural Statistics Bill : Committee. Tuesday, April 8—Marriage Law Amendment Bill : second reading. Monday, April 14—Torture in India : Condemnatory Resolution by the of Albemarle.

Friday, May 2—Ticket-of-leave System: Resolution as to the injurious- effects, by Lord Dungannon.

No day is named for the second reading of Lord Brougham's three Bills— Religious Worship Penalties Repeal, Observance of Holidays Bepeal, Popish Guardians Restriction Repeal.