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Question put and passed. House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Travers, No. 1, on the notice paper of this day. Question put. House dividedAyes, 10, Noes 5. Messrs. Mackay Messrs. Forsaith G ™y Merriman O'Neill Porter 0 Brien Crompton 1 aylor Hart <teller) Sevvell Brown, Catleton Bacot Travers (teller) Mr. Forsaith postponed consideration of the resolution standing in his name, second on the notice paper of this day, until to-morrow, with leave of the House to amend the same. Moved by Mr. Hart—that the orders of the day do take precedence of all other business to-morrow. Question put and passed. On motion of Mr. Hart, House adjourned at half-past five o'clock until tomorrow at noon.

NOTICES OF MOTION. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, ]855. 1. MR. SEWELL—To move that a respectful Address te presented to his Excellency, embodying the following Resolutions,— 1. 1 hat in the judgment of this House, all monies held by the Treasury on Deposit accounts in the nature of Trusts, as for Intestate Estates lund, &c., should be treated as unavailable and removed from the general account, and placed to a separate account under proper Regulation. 2. That all monies held by the Treasury, properly payable to the New Zealand Company ought to be treated as unavailable,"and should be remitted or set apart in a separate account. 3. That all monies due to the Provinces up to the 30th June last, ought to ! be paid over without delay, and without regard to the alleged fact of some Provinces having received advances in excess of their distributive share of Revenue. 4. That proper accounts based on the provisions of the Constitution Act, shewing the distributable surplus available for the Provinces to the 30th June last, oupht to be made up without delay, and that in case of unavoidable delay in completing the entire accounts, the same ought to be completed by estimate as far as possible. 5. That in estimating the distributable surplus available for the Provinces for the year ending 3Cth June 1855, the sum of £32,89(5 os. Od. held by the Treasurer on account of land purchases upon the Land deposit account, on that day, ought to be brought into account and treated as available, subject to a deduction of one-tenth for possible refunds, to be carried over to a separate deposit account, and to a further deduction of one-twentieth, the estimated cost of surveys. fi. That pending the final adjustment of the Provincial accounts, the system of advances to the I'rovinces for current purposes ought to be continued upon its pn sent footing • and that the proportions of such advances ought not to be disturbed during the current year, leaving the final settlement of accounts open for adjustment at the termination of the financial period.