HOUSE OF LORDS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 14 November 1857, Page 4

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Lord Stanley of Alderley (August 11) moved the following resolution:—That as regards the New Zealand Government Act Amendment Bill, the New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill, and the New Zealand Company's Claims Bill, they are all connected one with the other, and the two latter are money bills and bills of aid or supply; and as regards the ■colony, it appears that the said bills were unavoidably delayed in coming to this house in consequence of the necessity of communicating with certain members of the New Zealand Legislature, and from the late period at which the select committee to which these bills were referred reported upon them to the other House of Parliament; and as great inconvenience would arise to that distant colony if legislation was postponed to another year, the circumstances which render legislation on the subject matter of the said bills expedient are, in the opinion of this house, of such urgency as to render the immediate consideration of the same necessary. . Lord Redesdale saw no objection to the motion.

Agreed to. ' The following Mis were then read a second time:—New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill, New Zealand Company's Claims Bill, New Zealand Government Act Amendment Bill.

Tliese bills were read a third time, and passed on the 14th August.

The Ybedict in Mis 3 Smith's Tbial.— It will be interesting to our readers and. the public to learn the numbers by which the jury cairie to a decision. After deliberating, there were live for a verdict; of " Guilty" and ten for one of " Not Proven." On the question of absolute acquittal there was no diversity of sentiment whatever.— Caledonian Mercury.