The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-17 00:00:00

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S BILL.

The following is the amended bill introduced into
the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor, intiteled,
"An act to abolish arrest upon final process in England,
and for the amendment of the law of bankruptcy in certain
particulars."
Whereas it is expedient altogether to abolish arrest ripen
final process in England, and to amend the law of bank-
ruptcy in aertaie particulars : be it enacted by the Quest's
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Lards spiritual and temporal, and commons, in
this present parliament aresubled, and by the authority of
the same, es follows :
1. From and after the

of this act no

perm= shall be taken or charged in execution or detained
upon any judgment, decree, or order obtained or made
in any of her Majesty's superior courts, or in any
inferior court, in Ragland for the payment of any
stun of money or damages or costs : provided always,
that this act shall not affect the remedies given to creditors
under the Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 127, intituled " An
Act for the better securing the Payment of Small Debts,"
or eider the 9th and 10th Victoria, chapter 96, intituled
" An Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and
Demands in England."
2. The remedies gives to judgment creditors by sections
78 to 85, both inclusive, el " The Bankruptcy Act, 1861,"
shall extend and be applicable to the case of every judgmeat
creditor who would have been entitled to sue out against a
debtor a writ of sepias ad satisfacieodura, or to charge the
debtor in execution in respect of any debt amounting to 901.,
exclusive of costs, if this sot had sot pared.
3. The debt of a judgment creditor for 201., exclusive of
oasts, petitioning for adjudication of bankruptcy against •
debtor, shall be a good petitioning creditor's debt, and tuff ..
dent for the purposes of such adjudicatioa.
4. Sections 98 to 107 of the "Bankruptcy Act, 1861," in-
clusive, are hereby repealed ; but each repeal shall not affect
any proceeding pendieg, or say right that has arisen or may
arise in respect of any transaction, act, matter, or thing
done under or by virtue of any such sections.
3. No order of discharge in any bankruptcy shall be
granted, nor shall the same if granted protect any estate,
property, income, or salary which a bankrupt may acquire,
possess, or become entitled to after the date of such order
of discharge. unless the estate of the bankrupt
shall have paid or AMR be sufficient to pay, in the bank-
ruptcy, a dividend or dividends of Cie. in the pound upon
all the debts proved in such bankruptcy, or unless creditors
who have proved and whose debts are equal to
3-4tha •of the whole amount of the debts proved
shall, by writing under their hands, consent to such order
of discharge : provided always, that nothing herein con-
Mined shall affect, any power now rated in the commission-
s= of the Court of Bankruptcy and judges of the County
Courts of refusing, snapsoding, or anaexiog conditions to
any order of discharge.
6. This act shall apply only to England.
7. This act shall be cited for all purposes as " The Aboli-
tiou of Arrest Act, 1865."
8. This act shall commence and take effect on the 20th
day of Jab* ses.t.

Sir William Gallwey, on the 4th of next month,
intends to move in the Rouse of Commons, "That it is the
opinion of this house that the safety of the public requires
that, pooling the report of the royal commission, some
immediate provision should be made for compelling railway
companies to make arrangements for establishing a proper
oommuoioatiou between guards and passengers."
Mr. Neate has given notice, that if, on the first
day of the meeting of the home after the Easter rooms, or
before that time, the house bas not received some satisfac-
tory assurance that effectual provision has been made for
the custody and treatment, in a manner conformable to the
law, of the insane inmates of monastic and conventual
establishments, he will, at the earliest convenient oppor-
tunity, move a resolution calling upon her Majesty's govern-
ment " to prosecute say panacea who may already appear to
have violated the law made for the protection of real or
alleged lunatics."
A young man who travelled by the Midland
Great Western Railway when the train was upset on the
29th of October last, and the ourisp in which he sat was
smashed, injuring him seriously, claimed 1,0001. damagee
at Galway Assizes on Wedemiday, sad obtained 3001. and
eosin.
In a Convocation held yesterday at Oxford it was
agreed, amid considerable applause, that the honorary de-
gree of D.C.L. should be conferred on Professor Lobegott
Friedrich Constantinue Tischendorf. The worthy Professor
was presented by Dr. Travers Tarim, Regius Professor of
Civil Law, in an elegant Latin speech, and took his NM
by the Bide of the Vies-Chsecelior amid acclamation.
A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" The last
(Idiom between their Mslaties sad the Duke de Many
were extremely torching. It is said that the duke, feeling
himself growing weaker, said to the Emperor, who was
weeping by the side of the Emprees, ' Come, size, we must
part.' At these words the Empress, bursting into teen,
threw herself at the foot of the bed, and the Emperor could
not repress his Doha The Archbishop of Perin and M.
Roche, had some difficulty in withdrawing him from the
spot, sad supporting him till he reached his carriage. It is
affirmel that the Duke de Morey has left to his heir' •
fortune of lb mailer."
Tat &introit's SCANDAL—The committee of the
Roues of Lords appointed to isgaw iota the drones-
stems§ of the appoistment, the alleged defalcations, and
the resignation of Mr. Leeward Mims& of his odes se
reading clerk of the Rome of Lords, met yestentay, and
CANADA. irealivad avid's°, ea the abject el their investigatise. The
QUEBEC, Yawn 7. ocimintlase is sot feessidly act worse eneus
hx ittem. hhet, ia
war.
The counties of York, Westmoreland, and St. und "r" 6816 MT sotour
John's, New Brunswick, have elected the entire the promsdiep, SOS IS asy report of Mis miasma peezaftzad
anti-confederation scheme ticket by a large ma- ,gotal the i••••glawitut ispa•••*•••ii frhillis• • fl,ll report of
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The Attorney-General has announced to the the emainittes.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK. Mews 8, MORIIING.
Money easy. Gold, 197. Exchange on London,
213 f ; on Paris, 2.604 to 2.63. Stocks tending
downwards. New York Centrals, 1081 ; Illinois,
118 ; Erie, 674 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1114. Cotton heavy;
Middling upland, 800. to 810. Flour declining.
Wheat heavy. Corn steady. Provisions tending
downwards. Coffee quiet. Sugar depressed.
Molasses very dull. Petroleum quiet ; crude,
43 ; refined, 674.

SOUTHAMPTON, Hamm 17.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Saxonia, from New York on the 4th inst., arrived
off Cowes last night. She brings 44 bags of mails,
118 passengers, and 1,000 dollars in specie for
Hamburg.

QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 17.
The Inman screw steamer City of Boston, from
New York on the 4th inst., arrived here at 6 a.m.
to-day with 136 passengers and 2,0651. in gold, and
proceeded at &30 a.m. Her news has been fully
anticipated by the Nova Scotian rid Greencastle.