NEW ZEALAND.

THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1854. Motion made and question put—That the following Resolution be at,opted:— " That, inasmuch as this first Session of the General Assembly partakes mainly of the character of a Constituent Parliament, which should especially found its enactments rather on carefully defined principles of Legislation than on the temporary expediency of modifying their practical application, this House declares its deliberate opinion that, according to established usage in the British Houses of Parliament, the introduction of any Bill which involves great change in the institutions or policy of the country, should be preceded by the attainment of ample information by the House, as to the past and existing state of those in(titutions or that policy, and by full and unreserved discussion of the principles on which the proposed change is suggested, and that according to the aforesaid usage, the pursuance of that order of business would be most effectually P r _ 0 ' moted by the preliminary consideration of resolutions enunciating such principles, in Committee of the whole House." (Mr. E. Jemingham Wakefield•) Committee divided. Aves, 10. Noes, 13. Messrs. Macandrew Messrs. Clifford Gledhill Fitzgerald Forsaith Sewell Carleton Wortley E. G. Wakefield Crompton O'Neill Rhodes Greenwood king B?.cot Hart Taylor Plcard 15, J. Wakefield (Teller) Revans Cutten Cargill Weld (Teller)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. No. 2. WEEKLY REPORT OF DIVISIONS IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE. (Extracted from the Minutes.) SESSION 1, OF 1854.