The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-25 00:00:00

WALL OF ST. JAMES'S PARK.

Mr. Manrtney asked the Chief Commissioner of Works
whether there, wont/ be any objection to rebuild the wall
lately pulled down in (.osvenor-place, so as to correspond
with the portion standing next Constitution Hill, and
placing a railing thereon up to the doorway into the
Park.

Sir B. Hall said the wall had been taken down because
it was unsafe, and he ictended that it should be rebuilt•
He did not know until lately that there was any objec ion
to the wall.

NOTICES OF MOTION.
Mr. T. Duncombe gave notice that on this day fort-
night he should call attention to the grievances of certain
members of the Land Transport Corps who served in the
late war.

Mr. 11. Berkeley said that shortly after Elster he should
cale the attention of the noble lord at the head of the goverr.
nient to the neceisity of protecting electors at the polling
booths: (Laughter.)
Mr. Headlam gave notice that in Committee of Ways
and Means he should movo, as an amendment to the
resolution of the C'aancellot of the Exchequer, that the
income tax should be provided for year by year.
Lord J, Russell gave notice that in committee of Ways
and Means he should move that for the next three years
the duty on tea should be Is 4d a pound, and that in 1860
it_should fall to is in the pound.

THE CLVIL SERVICE IN INDIA,
Mr. Deasy asked the ?resident of the Board of Control
whether any reduction had taken place or was contem-
plated in the number of appointments in the civil service
in India open to public competition.
Mr. V.. Smith said it would be hnpossible to reduce the
number.

MASTERS AND SERVANTS.
ti. pellatt asked the Attorney General whether it is
the intention of her Majesty's government td bring in a
bill to consolidate the statute lawt relating to masters and
servants, and to masters and workmen
_ _

Sir R. Bethell said the laws had been consolidated,
and it was not the intention of her Majesty's Government
to introduce any measure ou the subject.

LAW AND EQUITY.

Mr. J. G. Phillimore asked the Attorney-General
whether her Majesty's Ministers would object to institute
an enquiry (by a committee of this House or otherwise)
into the means by which the distinction between suits at
law and in equity, which has been removed from juris-
prudence of the United States, may be abolished.
Sir R. Bethell said he should be exceedingly glad to
promote any enquiry that would be likely to terminate in
the abolition of the technical distinctions which now
existed between law and equity. He believed that was the
keystone of every effective reform in the law. But it did
not appear to her Majesty's government that that was a
question which would be best considered by a committee
of the house.

HEALTH OF TOWNS' BILL.

Mr. Palk asked the President of the Board of Health
when he would bring in a Health of Towns' bill ; and
whether the bill would carry out the recommendations of
the Committee on the Board of Health.

Mr. Cowper said he had given notice to introduce a bill
to amend the Public Health Act, and he proposed to bring
it in early in March. It would be the same bill that was
agreed to by the select committee, with alterations to
which he imagined the committee would not object.
In answer to Mr. Palk,