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NOTICES OF MOTION. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29m, 1855. 1. DR. LEE—To move that an Address be presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, praying for a copy of the names of those Pensioners who have either paid, or are paying, their passages from England to this Colony, together with the amounts already paid ; and whether the sums so paid become funds of the Colonial or of the Imperial Treasury. 2. MR. PORTER —To move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the Constitution Act, and after deducting the first charges from the revenue as directed by the Act, and all general charges paid, to distribute the net surplus revenue, unappropriated by the General Assembly, among the Provinces, in proportion as the same shall have arisen in each Province. 3. MR. CROMPTON —To move that a respectful Address be presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, praying that a sum of five thousand pounds be placed on the estimates for the purpose of improving the present Trunk line of communication between Auckland and Wellington, through Whaingaroa, Kawhia, and New Plymouth. 4. MR. CROMPTON—To move that a respectful Address be presenred to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, praying that a sum of five hundred pounds be placed on the estimates for the purpose of laying down moorings in the roadstead of New Plymouth. 5. MR. SEWELL—To move an Address to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, for copies of the correspondence between the Oriental Bank Corporation and the Government respecting the introduction of a branch or branches of that establishment into this colony. 6. MR. MERRIMAN —To move that a Standing Committee be appointed to confer with any Committee which may have been or may be appointed by the Legislative Council, with a view to arrangements for the joint comfort and convenience of the membets of both Houses. The Committee to consist of same members as the Standing Orders Committee, and that the Committee report to the House from time to time, as they may think fit, or the House require. 7. MR. CARLETON—To move that the Petition of James John Piercy, received by this House, be referred to the Finance Committee. 8. MR. CARLETON—To move an Address to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government requesting him to place upon the estimates a sum of £100, additional to the sum appropriated to such purpose, upon the Civil list, towards the salary of the Resident Magistrate sitting in Auckland. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Report of Finance Committee. 2. Appropriation Bill —to be considered in Committee. 3. English Acts Bill—to be considered in Committee. 3. Consideration of his Excellency's Message No. 19. CHARLES CLIFFORD, Speak?r.