HOUSE OF COMMONS BUSINESS FOR NEST WEER.

Monday, April 8. Supply Committee—Ordnance Estimates: Navy Estimates. Exchequer Bills (9,200,000L) Bill : Committee. Brick-duties Bill: Amended, to be considered.

Ways and Means : Committee.

Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill : Second reading. Registration of Deeds (Ireland) Bill: Committee. Judgments (Ireland) Bill : As amended, to be considered. Stamp-duties Bill: Second reading.

Charitable Trusts Bill: Second reading.

Titles of Religious Congregations Bill : Committee.

In Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates, to propose the reduction of the

present establishment of the Admiralty, and particularly as applies to the number of Lords of the Admiralty—Colonel Sibthorp. Tuesday, April 9. Window-tax : Resolution calling for repeal—Viscount Duncan. Benefices in Plurality Bill: Committee. Wednesday, April 10. County Court Extension Bill : Second reading. Irish Fisheries Bill : Second reading.

Public Libraries and Museums Bill : Committee. Amendment that the Bill be committed that day six months—Colonel Sibthorp.

Parish Constables Bill : Second reading. County Rates Bill : Second reading. • • Extramural Interments Bill : Second reading. Real Property Conveyance Bill : Committee. Thursday, April 11. Court of Session (Scotland) Bill : Second reading. Highways Bill : Committee. Estates Leasing (Ireland) Bill : As amended, to be considered. Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill : Committee. Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill : Committee. Elections (Ireland) Bill : Committee. Distressed Unions Advances and Repayment of Advances (Ireland) Bill : Second reading. Medical Charities (Ireland) Bill : Second reading. Friday. April 12. Money Payment of Wages (Ireland) Bill: Second reading. Public Health (Scotland) Bill : Second reading. Police and Improvement (Scotland) Bill: Second reading. Australian Colonies Government Bill : Committee. Many Amendments to be moved.

Process and Practice (Ireland) Bill : As amended, to be considered. Fees (Court of Common Pleas) Bill : Committee.

Select Committee to inquire into the Salaries and Emoluments of offices held during the Pleasure of the Crown by Members of either House of Parliament,

voted in the annual Estimates ; and also into the Salaries and Emoluments

of Judicial Offices in the Superior Courts of Law and Equity in the United

Kingdom, and into the Retiring Pensions allotted to the Judges ; and also

into the Expense of Diplomatic Establishments charged on the Consolidated

Fund—Lord John Russell.

READJUSTMENT OF TAXATION.

Malt-tax : Motion to repeal—Mr. Cayley ; Tuesday, April 16.

Amendment, asserting the depressed state of agriculture, and recommending a re- duction in the pubhe expenditure—Mr. Wodehouse.

Tithes : Bill to regulate the tithe rent-charge by the annual average price of corn—Mr. Wyld ; no day fixed. Fire Insurances : To move areduction in the duty—Colonel Sibthorp ; no day fixed.

Advertisement duty :,To repeal—Mr. •Ewart; Tuesday, April 29. Land-tax : To call attention to the inequalities—Mr. Wodehouse; no day fixed.

Commercial Information To can attention to the inconvenience and danger arising from the tardy production, insufficiency, and defective nature, of the commercial information supplied to Parliament—Mr. Newdegate ; no day fixed.

Mercantile Marine Bill: On second reading, to move that it be read a second time that day six months—Mr. Moffatt ; Friday, April 19.

EDUCATIONAL AND AMELIORATIVE.

Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin : Motion for inquiry—Mr. Hey- wood ; Tuesday, April 23.

Secular Education Bill: On second reading of Mr. Fox's bill, to move that it be read a second time that day six months—Mr. Stafford; Wednesday, April 17. Irish Educational System: To call attention to the position in which the clergy and laity of the Established Church are placed, who object, on conscientious grounds, to the rules and principles of the National System of Education—Mr. George Alexander Hamilton; no day fixed.

CLASSIFIED LIST OF MOTIONS IN .PROSFECT.

FINANCIAL REFORM.

Diplomatic and Consular Service: To call attention to the more econorninal and efficient discharge of duty—Mr. Disraeli ; Tuesday, April 23. Warlike Armaments: Address that her Majesty will direct the Foreign Secretary to enter into Negotiations with France and other Foreign Governments, inviting them to concur in a mutual reduction of warlike armaments—Mr. Cobden ; Tuesday, April 30. Salaries : General revision of all salaries, with a view to a due reduction—Mr. Henley ; Tuesday, April 30.

COMMERCIAL POLICY REACTION.

Fixed Duty: Resolution in a Committee of the whole House to impose an eight- shilling duty on Foreign Wheat—Mr. Grantley Berkeley ; Tuesday, April 23. Slave Labour : Resolution in a Committee of the whole House respecting the exclusion of the produce of slave labour—Mr. Grantley Berkeley ; Tuesday, April 23.

Slave Labour Sugar : That it is unjust and impolitic to expose the free-grown sugar of the British Colonies and Possessions abroad to a competition with the sugar of foreign slave-holding and slave-trading countries—Sir Edward Buxton ; no day fixed.

Taxes on Knowledge : Motion to abolish Taxes on Paper, on Newspapers, and on Foreign Books-Mr. Milner Gibson; Tuesday, April 16. Working Classes : Select -Committee to consider facilities for the safe investment of savings, and for'forming provident societies-Mr. Shney ; Tuesday, April 16. , 'Sunday Post-office Labour: Address to the Queen on the subject of Sunday Em- ployment in the Post of throughout the Kingdom-Lord Ashley ; no day fixed. Journeymen Bakers : Bill to improve the sanatory condition-Lord Robert Gros- venor; no day fixed.

Cathedrals: Address to the Queen, as head of the National Church, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take into consideration the expediency of causing our cathedrals and churches to be generally open (so far as is prac- ticable) throughout the day, with a view to encourage the practice Of private de- votion therein, especially for the benefit of the poorer classes of the community -Mr. Ewart ; no day fixed.

Minister's Money, Ireland: Resolution that steps should be taken to give effect to the recommendation of a Select Committee that the tax should be abolished, and an equivalent paid from the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners-Mr. Fagan ; no day fixed.

LAW REFORM.

Punishment of Death : Bill to abolish-Mr. Ewart ; Tuesday, April 23.

Civil Actions : Select•Committee to inquire into Pleading and Practice in Civil Actions in the Superior Courts-Mr. Cockburn ; Tuesday, April 23.

Poisons : Select Committee to inquire if any restrictions should be imposed on the sale-lair. Stanford ; no day fixed.

PARLIAMENTARY BEFORE.

The Franchise : Payment of a direct tax, or a certain sum in a savings-bank, to confer a Vote-Sir De Lacy Evans ; Tuesday, April 16. Property Qualification : To move the abolition in England, Wales, and Ireland- Mr. Osborne ; no day fixed.

THE Film ARTS.

Royal Academy Grant : To oppose-Mr. Ewart.

The "` Apollo and Marsyas" of Raphael : To call the attention of the First Lord of the Treasury to the recent sale by public auction, at Messrs. Christie's, of a i

picture which is confidently believed by many persons to be the work of Ra- phael-Mr. Charteris ; no day fixed.