ENGLAND AND FRANCEEXTRADITION-CASE OF NADAL.

heart disease, and he was not, as alleged,
in a sinking condition when he left the
Court. The newspaper report was per-
fectly untrue, where it stated that the
justices had said he would see a medical
man when he got to Wakefield. The
justices never made such a suggestion.
After conviction, in order that he might
go to Wakefield as soon as possible, they
sent a policeman at a much earlier
riod than was absolutely necessary. It
turned out that he died of heart disease,
and the justices had not the slightest
knowledge that he was suffering from
that disease. He (Mr. Cross) did not
intend to take any steps in the matter.

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CRIMINAL LAW CASES OF LEWIS,
PLATT, AND LANCASTER-REMISSION

OF SENTENCE.-QUESTON.

QUESTION.

MR. J. COWEN asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the who was dicase of Jean Nadal, rected to be acquitted at the last session of the Central Criminal Court, by the Right honourable Russell Gurney, on the plea of jurisdiction raised by his counsel; and, whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to take any steps with a view to amend the unsatisfactory state of the Law of Extradition with France ?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, he was informed by the Clerk of the Arraigns at the Central Criminal Court that the defendant was taken into

custody in England for larceny, but it was found that if any offence had been committed at all it was committed in France. Therefore it was a question of

DR. KENEALY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has received a Petition from Hanley Potteries, signed by Clergymen and Ministers of all religious denomina-jurisdiction, and not of extradition. The tions, and the inhabitants generally, praying for the remission of a sentence passed on three boys named Lewis, Platt, and Lancaster, two of them being nine years old and the other ten, by which

terms of a new Treaty with France had been arranged, and he hoped the Treaty itself would very shortly be signed.

REPORTED COMMERCIAL TREATY.

they are to be detained in an Industrial FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES School until they are sixteen years old; and, if so, whether he intends to take any steps in the matter so as to alter or amend the sentence?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, he had only that day received an explanation from the magistrates, and there seemed to be a difference of opinion on the subject. A second application had been made, and he would not be in a position to come to a final conclusion for two or three days.

NAVY-CORONERS IN NAVAL DIS

TRICTS.-QUESTION.

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether he will consider the expediency of laying down the rule that a person appointed to the office of coroner in districts which include the great Naval Ports of the Country, shall not at the same time hold employment under the Admiralty?

MR. HUNT, in reply, said, the matter was engaging his attention.

QUESTION.

MR. ANDERSON asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it be the fact that a commercial treaty has just been concluded between France and America, under which _America agrees to reduce the Import Duties on French productions and manufactures; and, whether this treaty will put France on a more favourable footing in American trade than this Country, and if he can do nothing by negotiation to induce. America to reduce some of the Duties on British manufactures which are at present practically prohibitory?

MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, the Government were aware that reports had been in circulation respecting such a Treaty, but they had received no information in regard to it, and did not think it probable that such a Treaty would be entered into, for it was not at all likely the American Government would reduce their tariff duties at pre

sent.

{JULY 31, 1876}

CHINA- THE YUNNAN MISSION

THE REPORT.-QUESTION.

MR. MARK STEWART asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affair, If he can inform the House when the Papers containing the Report of Mr. Grosvenor's Mission to Yunnan will be laid upon the Table?

MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that the Report had not yet been received, and therefore it was impossible to say when it would be laid upon the Table.

BRITISH HONDURAS.-QUESTION. MR. JACOB BRIGHT asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the attention of the Colonial Office has been called to a Petition complaining of misgovernment, presented by the Inhabitants of British Honduras to the Legislative Council, and refused by the Lieutenant Governor, Major Mundy, on the alleged ground that the language was not sufficiently respectful; and, whether the grievances complained of were not numerous, and of a serious nature?

dates on which the advances were made
by the India Office, dates brought to
account as national receipts, and years
and quarters in which included in the
accounts of the income of the Kingdom;
and of any interval between these, the
causes and objects of the delays; also
the amounts appropriated out of the
Indian advances in each quarter and
year to clear off the War Office claims,
and the yearly balances and totals not
cleared off, and, if these balances were
retained in the Exchequer as income,
then to what extent the income of the
Kingdom has been unduly swelled in
each of the past years?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, he was not prepared at present to furnish the House with a statement of the nature desired by the Question of the hon. and gallant Member. It was rather a complicated matter, and it would be more conveniently dealt with in the Report of the cellor of the Exchequer) in answer to a Auditor General than by him (the ChanQuestion.

ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GAMBIA.

QUESTION.

MR. ALDERMAN M'ARTHUR asked

MR. J. LOWTHER: Sir, the atten- WEST COAST OF AFRICA—THE ACTING tion of Her Majesty's Government has been drawn to the matter, and I am bound to say that, having read it, in my opinion, the language of the Petition hardly appears to be such as need have precluded its reception by the Lieutenant Governor, who, it is only right I should add, acted under the advice of his Council in the course he adopted. After considering the grievances alleged, the Secretary of State does not think that any extensive alterations of the existing fiscal system are practicable; but the whole question of the finance of the colony in question will continue to receive our careful attention.

GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOUR asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If, in regard to the conflicting character of the evidence given before the Public Accounts Committee, he will furnish the House with a statement of the advances on account of War Office Charges made by the India Office to the Exchequer since the abolition of the agreement about the Capitation Rates for Effective and Non-effective Services, stating the

the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, If his attention has been called to a correspondence between Captain Cooper the Acting Administrator of the Gambia and Mr. Quin a merchant at Bathurst; and, whether, considering the tone and character of such correspondence, it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to take any in relation to the conduct of Captain Cooper?

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MR. J. LOWTHER, in reply, said, his attention had been called to the correspondence referred to. His noble Friend the Secretary of State had intimated to the Acting Administrator that, communication in question was unusual in his opinion, the tone adopted in the and undesirable in official communications. Captain Cooper being a most efficient officer, it was not intended to take any further notice of the matter.

INDIA-INDIAN FINANCE-THE

EXCHANGES.-QUESTION.

MR. FAWCETT asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether,

CHINA-CHINESE CONSUL AT HONG reply, said, that he understood that cer

MR. DISRAELI: I heard, on Satur

SWEDEN-THE BRITISH CHURCH AT day, from Mr. Wyndham, Her Majesty's

STOCKHOLM.-QUESTION.

MR. BERESFORD HOPE asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that, although the Committee of the British Church at Stockholm had been successful in its civil suit against the intruding body, yet on the second or criminal suit it had been condemned in a heavy and to those persons ruinous fine of 2,000 dollars, besides costs to be paid within fifteen days; and, whether he can state the steps which Her Majesty's Government propose to take in behalf of those unfortunate persons?

MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that he was not in possession of sufficient information to enable him to give an absolutely final answer to his hon. Friend. At present he would say that the dispute at Stockholm appeared to have arisen between two sets of British subjects, and it seemed to have been decided by competent tribunals. Under these circumstances, it appeared to Her Majesty's Government that they had no locus standi

for interference.

MR. BERESFORD HOPE: Can the

hon. Gentleman explain the apparently divergent decisions of the two tribunals? MR. BOURKE: The only explanation I can give is that we have heard nothing at all about the first. The only

information we have is as to the second.

MR. BERESFORD HOPE: I beg to give Notice that I shall repeat the Ques

tion.

Chargé d'Affaires at Athens, that the Affairs had informed him that he had Greek Secretary of State for Foreign received an answer to his inquiry from the Turkish Government, who stated that there was no foundation whatever for that statement. Within a few minutes I have received a telegram from Sir Henry Elliot, who says he has conferred with the Grand Vizier, who told him that it was entirely without founda

tion.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Orders of the Day be postponed until after the Notice of Motion relating to the Insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegovina."

THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON:

I understood, Sir, that it was the intention of the right hon. Gentleman to position of Public Business, and I bemake some statement in regard to the lieve it was the general expectation on

this side of the House that the statement would have been made on this

Motion. I trust, however, that the right hon. Gentleman does intend before we proceed with the debate on Turkish affairs to make some statement respecting the intentions of the Government in the matter.

MR. DISRAELI: I think, Sir, the best statement I can make is to tell the

House the order of Business that I contemplate for the present week. ToPROPOSED night we proceed with the discussion on

TURKEY AND GREECE
SETTLEMENT OF CIRCASSIANS.

QUESTION.

MR. W. E. FORSTER asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Government has received any information relating to an intention on the part of the Turkish Government to settle Circassians in the provinces in the neighbourhood of Greece, or to a protest by the Greek Minister at Constantinople against such intention? He should not have troubled the right hon. Gentleman on the subject had he not heard the rumour from quarters which led him to believe there might be some foundation in truth for it.

Turkish affairs. To-morrow we propose to take the English, Irish, and Scotch Education Estimates. Wednesday is reserved for the Bill of the hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. R. Smyth). On Thursday we take the Report of the Education Bill. On Friday we shall proceed with the remaining Votes of Supply, which will permit of discussion with respect to the affairs of Egypt and the Suez Canal, and the mission of my right hon. Friend (Mr. Cave); and on Saturday I hope we shall take the third reading of the Education Bill. The House will understand that this arrangement of Business demands on the part of the Government a considerable sacri

fice of their other measures. The Prisons | brought forward at all. As to the UniBill is a Bill which I, for one, and I versity Bills, if a time could be named believe a majority of the House, ap- for disposing of the Orders, he beprove. I think it an excellent Bill, and lieved certain suggestions might be made the country will have an opportunity of which would facilitate legislation next considering its merits during the Recess. Session. It will, however, take some time to pass, and in the present state of Public Business we cannot hope successfully to proceed with it; but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department wishes to commit the Bill pro formd, in order that he may introduce into it Amendments of which he has given Notice, so that the Bill may be re-printed, and be in a perfect state, so far as our view of the question is concerned, for future discussion. I am sorry to say also that it will not be possible to proceed with the University Bills, but I trust that they may be proceeded with next Session. If this plan is adopted, I should hope that we might on Monday conclude Supply and pass the Appellate Bill through the stage for which it now stands. I do not know that there is any other announcement that I need make to the House; but if hon. Members should support the Government in these views, I think the Session may end at a period not much more remote than usual.

MR. W. E. FORSTER wished to know what course the Government were prepared to take in reference to the Cruelty to Animals Bill?

MR. DISRAELI: I am not prepared to give up the chance of passing it.

MR. E. J. REED asked when the Lords' Amendments to the Merchant Shipping Bill would be taken ?

MR. DISRAELI: That, of course, is in the Order of Business. We have to consider the Amendments of the Lords; I cannot exactly fix the day on which we may do so, but the House cannot be prorogued without the Bill being passed.

SIR JOSEPH M'KENNA asked a question as to the Irish Court of Judicature Bill.

MR. DISRAELI: On Thursday night I shall be better able to answer the question.

MR. FAWCETT said, that the right hon. Gentleman had made no allusion whatever to what he must admit to be a question of great importance. He had not even condescended to say whether the Indian Budget would be

THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON : Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will allow me to put one or two other questions to him, so as to save him the trouble of rising again. The arrangements of the right hon. Gentleman appear to depend upon the assumption that the Turkish debate will terminate this evening. I should be very glad if it were in my power to give any assistance towards the accomplishment of that assumption; but I fear from the information which reaches me it is extremely improbable that it will be possible it should terminate this evening. I would therefore ask the right hon. Gentleman what arrangements he thinks it would be in his power to make, supposing, which is, at all events, possible, that the debate cannot finish to-night. The right hon. Gentleman did not mention any day for the debate on Extradition Treaties, a subject which I understand my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Oxford (Sir William Harcourt) is to have an opportunity of bringing forward. I should like to ask whether it is in the right hon. Gentleman's power to state on what day, according to present arrangements, the Extradition debate will be brought on, and on what day, if necessary, the debate of this evening will be resumed.

MR. RAMSAY wished to know whether the Government intended to proceed with the Sheriffs Courts (Scotland) Bill, and the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Bill?

MR. DISRAELI: Sir, with respect to the remarks of the hon. Member for Hackney, I would observe that I did not intend to give a complete programme of the progress of the remaining Business of the Session, but only to fulfil my promise to state the Business of the week, and at the same time to give the House the names of the more important measures which the Government had determined to withdraw from their notice. It is, therefore, as open to the House as it is to the Government to form an opinion as to what may be the progress of the other Business of the House. It is certainly impossible to