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unusual and improper for li'm to forward copies of a portion of that correspondence, before it shall have been brought to a conclusion. Government House, Auckland, 28th August, 1355. Mr. Hart, with the leave of the House, postponed the motion standing in his name, first on the notice paper of this day, until Friday next. Mr- Bacot, pursuant to notice, moved that an humble Address be presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, requesting him to place a sum of money upon the estimates for the purpose of conducting a scientific enquiry into the plans of Baron de Thierry and other individuals for the cultivation and preparation of the New Zealand Flax. Question put and negatived. v % Mr. Porter, with leave of the House, withdrew the motion standing in hi 3 name, third on the notice paper of this day. Mr. Travers, pursuant to amended notice, moved, that in the opinion of this House it is expedient that copies of all Acts of the General Assembly should be forwarded to Justices of the Peace and other public officers tlironghont the colony, and that the same should be prepared and so forwarded by the Colonial Secretary. Question put and passed. Mr. Travers, pursuant to notice, moved the adoption of the following Address to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, in reply to his Excellency's Messages numbered 2, 13, 15, 28, and 33. To his Excellency the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand. We, the Commons of New Zealand, assembled in their House of Representatives, respectfully beg leave to address your Excellency in reply to Messages numbered 2, 13, 15, <>8, and-33, presented to this House on the subject of the disturbed state of the Natives at New Plymouth ; of the steps taken by your Excellency in relation thereto ; and of the provision to be made for defraying the expenses to be incurred in affording military protection to the European population o( that Province, and more particularly, of the cost of erecting barracks, and otherwise providing accommodation for the troops. We thank your Excellency for the information conveyed to us by these Messages, and assure your Excellency that we have given to the matters referted to in them the most careful and anxious consideration. We beg to renew to your Excellency the expression of our deep regret at the unhappy occurrences detailed in your Excellency's message number 2, but we feel that in the present position of this House having regarded more particularly to the fact, that the power of exercising constitutional control of the Executive proceedings of the Government has not yet been conceded to the Legislature, we should not be justified in expressing an opinion as to the course of policy to he pursued by the Government in dealing with them. We are further induced to refrain from expressing any such opinion in consequence of the absence, during the piesent Session, of the great majority of the Representatives of the Southern Provinces. Whilst we admit the absolute necessity of providing for the defence of the Province of New Plymouth, we feel ourselves ccmpelled respectfully to decline for the reasons above submitted, to appropriate any portion of the public revenue towards the expenses to be incurred in the erection of barracks for the troops, or otherwise in affording military protection to the European population of that Province. We sincerely trust, however, that the measures taken by your Excellency will lead to the beneficial results mentioned in the Address by which your Excellency was pleased to open the present Session. Debate ensued. Mr. Forsaith moved as an amendment that the words, " that the power of exercising constitutional control of the Executive proceedings of the Government has not yet been conceeded to the Legislature "in the third paragraph of the Address be omitted, with a view to insert the following, " that it is not competent for this House to exercise a control over the Executive proceedings of the Government." Question —that the words proposed to be omitted do stand part of the question—put and carried. Whereupon original question put and passed. A Message from the Legislative Council was announced. The Hon. Major Kenny was introduced who presented to the Speaker the Naturalization Bill as passed by the Legislative Council.