The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-23 00:00:00

TUESDAY.

NOTICES o 1 MOTIONS : Sir• Joshua Walmsley—Repre-
sentatire Systerri-4elect Committee, to consider and
report upon the most .practical means for lessening the
existing inequalities in our representathee system, and
for extending to the unenfranehised that share of
political power to which they may. be jnstly entitled.
Mr. Ferguson—Carlisle Canonnes—Bill to appropriate
the income of the 'first vacant-Canonry of the Cathedral
Church of Carlisle, to the augmentation of certain
Ecclesiastical Incumbencies within the said city.

Mr. Pollard Urquhart—National Debt—'-Select com-
mittee to inquire into the practicability of converting
any portion of the National Debt into terminable
annuities, or adopting any other plan for effecting is
progressive and continued diminution.
Mr. Bentinckßailway Accidents—Select Committee
to enquire into the causes of accidents on railways, and
into the possibility of removing any such causes by
further legislation:
Mr. Deasy—Civil Service gkaminations (Ireland)—
To call the attention of the house to the present mode of
conducting the examination of candidates for admission
into the civil service ; and to move; that an humble
address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she
will be graciously pleased to give directions to have such
examinations conducted as in England, by examiners,
whose character, acquirements, and experience in exami-
nations render them peculiarly fitted for the duty.
Mr. Napier—Franklin expedition—Td call the atten
tion of tbe house to the communications -with her
Majesty's government respecting the Franklin Expedi-
tion, and the urgent nature of the claim for a further and
complete search
Orders of the day : Lunatic Asylums (Ireland)
second reading ; Savings Banks—committee:thereupon.

WEDNESDAY.

Orders of the Day : Imprisonment for Debt, &c., Bill
—second reading ; Sea Coast Fisheries Bill—second read-
ing ; Judgments Execution, &c., Bill—committee [pro.
gress 18th February] ; Courts of Chanbery (Ireland)
(Titles of Purchasers) Bill—second reading; Court of
Chancery (Ireland) Bill—second reading.

TITURSDAY.

Notices of Motions : Sir D. Norreys—Fiscal Affairs
(Ireland)—Bill for the better administration of the fiscal
atlkirs of counties in Ireland.
Mr. Cobden—China :That this house hs.s heard with
concern of the conflicts which have occurred between the
British and Chinese authorities in the Canton river;
and, without-expressing an opinion as to the extent to
which the Government of China may have afforded this
country cause of complaint respecting the nonfulthment
of the treaty of 1842, this house considers that the papeis
which have b?,en laid upon the table fail to establish
satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted
to at Canton in the late alliir of the Arrow. That a
select committee be appointed to enquire into the state
of our commercial relations with
Mr. William Ewart : Capital Punishment (Scotlairl) :
Bill to abolish the lawe enacting or prescribing capital
punishment in Scotland, to the same extent as it has
been abolished by the law of England.
Mr. Cowper : Public Health Act : 13'11 to amend the
Public Health Act.
Mr. John George' Phillimore : Administration of
Justice (India) : To cAll attention of the house to the
administraiion of justice in the company's courts in
India,
Order of the Day : Extra Parochial Places bill; second
reading.