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of the issue female of the house of Denmark, in the eeent
of issue male being extinct. But the Danish Ministry, by
the Law of Succession of 31st July, 1853, have declared
that females shall not inherit the throne of Denmark.
Whatever may have been the motives of tha Danish Mi-
nistry, the result of this law is quite simple.
The treaty of London has declared that Denmark and
Sleswig shall not be separated from Holstien. The law of
July, 1853, is explicit that females shall not inherit Den-
mark. Who, then, is to be King of Denmark if the two
male children of the Princess Louise and Prince Christian
die? The Emperor of Russia ! who, as the heir of Hol-
stein, claims Holstein, Sleswig, and Denmark because they
cannot be separated. For the Emperor of Russia, then,
the Danish Ministry destroyed the claims, and annihilated
the rights, of the Princesses of the house of Denmark.

BANKRUPTCY COMMISSION.
Tau report, of the Bankruptcy Commissioners
has at length been presented to Parliament, awl
printed, together with the minutes of e)itienee ird
the answers to the circular of questions.
The commissioners make a number of snggestions for
reducing the costliness and bettering the condition of a
tribunal which hitherto has not been very successfully re-
formed. They recommend that creditors he attracted by a
revision of the fees and per centages, and greater control
over the official assignees •, and debtors, by a revision of
the penal clauses, and by allowing a trader to obtain an ad-
judication in his own case if he can show available assets
to the extent of 1501., instead of (as at present) ss. in the
pound. On the question of a continuance of a system of
classification of certificates the commissioners are divided
in opinion ; but those of them who approve it are for
having two classes only—a* certificate of the bankrupt's
conduct, and a certificate merely of his conformity to the
bankrupt laws, leaving mistionduct to'be punished by sus-
pension or refusal of the certificate. The commissioners
are in favour of two proposals of Lord St. Leopard's, one
for extending the jurisdiction of the Court of Bankruptcy
to the administration of deceased traders' estates dying in-
solvent ; the other for making the district bankruptcy
courts auxiliary to the Court of Chancery intaking accounts,
prosecuting inquiries, examining witnesses, and the like.
They report, but pronounce no judgment upon, the pro-
pOsal of one of their bud); ( Mr. M. D. Hill) to make the
court a court, of general administration, with jurisdiction
over small trust estates, and power (upon the submission
of the parties) to wind up partnerships snd conduct arbi-
trations. They object to Lord Brougham's proposal to
abolish the district bankruptcy courts, and transfer the
jurisdiction to the county courts, considering the character
otthe business of the two essentially distinct, anddreading
another heap of compensations. Among those stilTpayable
in consequence of the reform of the bankruptcy courts is
one that swells the list of " enormous compensations."
The patentee of bankrupts, his office being abolished, is
allowed upwards of 7,0001. a year.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, May 18.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLE D.—Wm. STRAFORD VAILL,
East I:Bromwich, licensed victualler—DANlEL FRED. loom),
Grosvenor.place, Commercial-road East, draper.
BANKRUPTS.--JAmEs MERCHANT, Foulmire, Cambridge-
shire, grocer—CHART:AS HENRY MAY, Edgware-mad, Maryle-
bone, jeweller—JOHN HAMER, Erigware•road, and Jonson-place,
Westbourne-green, draper--JoHN SHARPE, Barnes, Surrey, cow.
keeper—Wm. Dot Tom, Sutton St. Mary, Lincolnshire, common
brewer—THomAs MANNINd, Combe Lake, Devonshire, smith—
MAIMICE JARVIS, Leeds, woolstapler—EDWAßD COULTATE and
THoMAS SwiNDELs, Manchester, brokers.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Jon Went, Glasgow,
grocer —DANIEL HAMILTON, Esq., Edinburgh ALEXANDER
Donuts, Glasgow, tea merchant AYES HOWDEN and ANDREW
HOWDEN, Edinburgh, jewellers.