The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

As affo•ding a guide to public expectation in regard
to the probable occupation of the new parliament for the
first week after its meeting, we reprint an extract from
circumstances

(From " Votes of the House of Commons.")
November 4, 1852.

House met at two p.m., and went to the Lords.
The Lords Commissioners directed the house to proceed
to the election of a Speaker, and to present him at two
to-morrow for the royal approbation.
Mr. Shaw Lefevre, on motion of Mr. Palmer, seconded
by Lord Robert Grosvenor, took the chair.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer then congratula+ed
the Speaker el,ot.
Tha house adjourned at three.
November bth.

House met at two. and went to the Lords. Her Majesty
approved of the choice the house had made.
The Speaker took the oaths alone. Several members
also took the oaths.
Rouse adj ,urned at four.
November 6th.

House met at two. Several members took the oaths.
Adjourned at four.

November Bth.
Same proceedings. Members took the oaths.
November 9th.

Same proceedings.
November 10th.

Same proceedings.
November 11th.

The house met at one o'clock. Message to attend her
Majesty in the Lords House went. On return, the
Speaker reported her Majesty's speech. Address moved
by Lord Lovaine, seconded by Mr. E. Everton, and
agreed to.
Adjourned at 9 30 p.m.

Nearly the whole of the business portion of Plymouth,
Indiana. had been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at
10,000 dollars.

The guano commission reported very favourabiy on the
deposits at the Jardenelles and adjacent keys. A trading
company, with a million of dollars capital, would soon
ship the article. It may now be exported on payment of
5 dollars per ton into the royal treasury.
The army lieutenant who, five or six weeks ago, de.
frauded Messrs. Davies, jewellers, of New street, Bir-
mingham, of some valuable bracelets, by representing
himself to be Lord Alfred Hay, has been placed in a
lunatic asylum, symptoms of insanity having manifested
themselves.

We hear from Berlin, that the price of everything it
rapidly increasing. House rent in that city has within the
last five or six years increased from 40 to 100 per cent ;
and all articles of food and consumption are from 16 to 40
per cent dearer than five years ago, while all articles of
wearing apparel are dearer than in England, without being
nearly so good.

LORD PALMERSTON IN DANGER.—M. Alexander Dumas
concludes a letter to the Presse, descriptive of the ➢Middlesex
nomination, with saying :—" Let me repeat that Lord
Palmerston's majority constitutes his true danger. In three
months this majority will either have compelled him to
break into a gallop on the road to progress, or they will
have passed over his body."

A DOUBLE ELECTION hETURN.—The retnrn of Members
of Parliament for Huntingdonshire is a double one, Mr.
Ileathcote and Mr. Fellowes, the rival candidates for the
second seat, having polled precisely the same number. The
consequence is that both will be returned, and both will
have the privilege of voting tar the Speaker. A petition
must eventually settle the matter. The same thing
occurred at Kuaresborough a few years since. whan three
members polled precisely the same numbers. One of them
resigned, and no more difficulty therefore arose.
SEBAszoPoL.—The operation of raising the vessels sunk
in the port of Sebastopol has commenced. There aro
upwards of eighty of them, and sixteen have already
been recovered, namely, the Chersonese steamer (260
horse power), four transports, one brig, two schooners,
two tenders, and six smaller craft. The four transports
ere already afloat, and are engaged in conveying pro-
visions and equipments. The Cheronese is under repair
at Nicelaieff, and will be launched again in spring.
Besides these vessels, the government has six sailing
transports and some steamers of from sixty to one
hundred horse power. It has but lately bought five screw
schooners, which are to cruise along the eastern coasts of
the Black Sea.—St. _Petersburg Letter, in Le .Nord.
A letter from Melbourne, dated February 14, says
There seems to be a building mania among the principal
banking corporations of this city. The English and
and Scottish Chartered Bank set the fashion by erecting
a grand building, as remarkable for the chaste style of its
external architecture as for its convenience within. Its
hall of business—the shop, as the successors of the Lom
bard goldsmiths call it, is a very beautiful chamber. The
Bank of New South Wales follows, and is putting up a
palace in Collins street. It will bo a splendid building,
though its frontage is rather narrow. The cost of this
building will be £25,000. The Bank of Australasia, which
has already a fine banking housP, is about to expend
£40,000 in stone and cement. The Union Bank of Australia
is also improving its fine building. The flourishing Bank
of Victoria, which is at present not well housed, will
probably follow the lead The youngest of our banking
institutions, the Colonial Bank of Australia, which is doling
remarkably well, is well enough lodged for years to come."