Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
At the mid-day sitting, the Speaker announced the
abandonment of the petition complaining :of undue eke-
five for Cashtl.
The Members appointed to serve on the Beverley, Sligo
Borough, and Dablin City Election Committees were
sworn at the table, and the Committees were appointed to
meet to-morrow.

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POLICE (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The consideration in Committee of the Police Scotland
Bill was resumed, and the remaining clauses commencing
with clause 24 were adopted, with some amendments of an
unimportant character. A new clause, proposed to be
added to the bill of the Lord Advocate, having for its
object the exemption of police vans from tolls, was opposed
by Mr. Mackie, but was inserted, upon a division, by
58 to 0.

The announcement of this result by the tellers created
much laughter.
The Lord Advocate m)ved the insertion of a clause
regulating the mode of assessment to the police rate.
Mr Stirling proposed to amend the clause by the inser-
tion of words providing that the assessment should be
equally divided betwee❑ the landlord and the occupier.
After some conversation, the amendment was negatived
by 67 votes to 16, and the clause was added to the bill.
Some other new clauses were added, and the bill with
amendments was ordered to be reported.

LOANS TO NEW ZEALAND.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the second
reading of the New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill,
Sir John Trelawney said he had expected that some
explanation would have been afforded by the Government
before the public were asked to guarantee a loan of
£500,000, for which, in his opinion, they had not good
security. He stated that the committee appointed to con-
sider the bill was composed of eight members, three or
four of whom were favourable to colonial interests,
whilst there were very few interested for the
public, and the witnesses examined were the Prime
Minister of New Zealand and a gentleman connected with
the Colonial Office. For these reasons, and considering
that the colonial assembly were not unanimous upon the
subject, that the late frequent changes in the Government
of New Zealand rendered the security a matter of doubt,
and that the necessity was in itself favourable, he thought
there was sufficient ground for the postponement of the
question till next session. He moved that the bill be read
a second time that day six months.
Mr. Labouchere admitted that the loan of the credit of
this country shoald not, as a rule, be given to a colony for
colonial purposes; but still there might be cases where
most important benefits might, by such a step, be conferred
upon a colony without injury to the interest of the mother
country. In this case he had at first held out no hope of
the application of the colony being acceded to, but a
further perusal of the grounds of the application had
induced him to appoint a select committee. That com-
mittee was composed of very eminent men, including Lord
John Rnssall, Sir John Pakington, Mr. Henley, Mr. J. A.
Smith, Lord Stanley, and other advocates of strict economy,
and he urged the House to support the decision at which
they bad arrived.
Mr. Gilpin supported the amendment.
Mr. Henley rose to speak upon the subj:et, but it now
being ten minutes to four o'clock, the debate was adjourned.
Lord Castlerosse brought up her Majesty's reply to the
address of the house upon the subject of India. Her
Majesty thanked the Commons for their loyal and dutiful
rddress, and for the assurance of their cordial support in
any measure that might be deemed necessary for repressing
the disturbances in India, and for restoring tranquility and
contentment in that important portion of her Majesty's
dominions.
The sitting was then suspended.

EVENING SITTING.
MILITARY EDUCATION.

Sir John Ramsden laid upon the table the Erg report of
the Committee upon Military Rlueation.
Petitions were presented from Shoreham, Greenwich,
the Isle of Wight, and Lambeth.
SLIQO ELECTION TRIALS.

In reply to Mr. Somers,
Mr. IL Herbert said it was not the fact, that in
the trial arising out of the last Sligo Election thera
had been a systematic exclusion of persons pro-
fessing the Roman Catholic religion from the juries
empannelled ; so far from it, he had been informed by the
Crown solicitor that the jury engaged on those trials was
comnesed of Roman Catholics and Protestants, and was
accepted by prisoners in the Sligo election case,
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald inquired what coarse it was tvJe
intention of the Government to pursue in consequence of
the vote of the House upon the second reading of t.'.le Civil
Service Superannuation Bill ?
Lord Palmerston said, after a 4"illiOn g":en by so large