The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-14 00:00:00

JUDGMENT'S EXECUTION BILL.

Mr. Crawford moved the second reading of the bill'?
which he said it had been his misfortune to have In hand
for the last four years. The object was, to make Sudga
merits obtained in any part of the United. Kingdom availa,
ble in other parts of the kingdom, and execution following'
upon a notification from the court from which the
judgment was obtained. Ho thought such at
measure necessary to remedy the present anornalonsf
state of the law, and expressed his willingness to consider'
any amendment that might be proposed in committee.
lie had adopted amendments to meet objections fatal to
the bill, and he trusted that it would be passed through
the house.

Colonel F. French said if the effect of the bill would be'
precisely as stated by the mover no one in that house
would be found to object 'to it ; but so far from being a
bill to facilitate the recovery of debts it was a bill rather
to inflict upon England and Ireland the barbarism of the
Scotch law. Re moved that it be read a second time that
day six months.

kr. Bland seconded the amendment. The bill was, he
said, very obnoxious, to the commercial community ink
Ireland, on account of the facilities it would afford for col-
lusion and fraudulent preference in cases of bankruptcy;
and it would also do inealeuble injury to the legal proles,
sion in Dublin. °

Mr. Ayrton opposed the bill as a proposNOn not to be
considered, as a step towards law reform.
llPMahon looked upon the bill as opposed to
.tfid
established principles of law and jurisprudencd, for which
there was no excuse, and there could be no pretence. -
The bill violated the first principle of justice, that a mama
should not be condemned without having an opportunity
of being heard ; for, under its provisions, a man leaving
any small article of property behind him in Scotland.
might be cited fur a debt of which he knew nothing, and
the execution would be the first intimation he would get
of the proceedings. If they brought among themselves
the laws of Scotland, they would create an evil which no
man could calculate the extent of ; and he advised them;
if anomalies were to be got rid of, to put an end to the
barbarous state of the Scotch law.
Mr. Charles Neate could by no means concur
in the attack that had been made from various parties
upon the Scotch law, which was the law of the greatest
part of the civilise I world ; they were discussing the prin-
ciple of iris bill, aad he thought that the assimilation of
the laws of the three kingdoms was one that should be
sanctioned by the house.

Mr. Whiteside opposed the bill at some length, repeat,
jug the arguments of previous speakers against it.
Mr. Ma.lins concurred in the principle of the bill, but
objected to some details, and stated his intention of mov
ing in committee a clause treating of judgments or decrees
obtained in Scotland as equivalent to oho, obtained is
Ireland.

The Lord Advocate said it appeared to him that those
who objected to the bill wished to side off upon defects in
the Scotch law. It was a Scotch, but general, measure oft
jurisprudence, and had received the approbation of Lord,
Brougham, and all English lawyers. If the law of decree
in absence in Scotland, were open to the objections taken
to it, let it be amended, and the great recommenda,tion,
of that measure was, that it would draw all eyes to thci
defects in the laws of each of the three kingdoms.
Mr. Napier opposed the bill, on the ground that, under
its provisions, after the judgment there would be three
jurisdictions.
Mr. Hadfield supported the bill.
The house then divided. The numbers were :
For the second reading
Against it

Majority 3B
Tho bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Wednesday.

SUPPLY.
The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up,
and agreed to.

ELECTION EXPENSES.

Lord Robert Grosvenor moved for leave to bring in a
bill to alter the law in reference to the payment of the
conveyance of voters to the poll, and the hustings expend,
ses by the candidates at elections. He quoted the report
of the committee of 1834 in support of the principle that
candidates should be at no expenses at their elections, and
stated his opinion that, if electors were to be brought to,
the poll, the conveyance should be at the public expense.
Mr. W. Williams did not think that in practice there
would be any great end accomplished by the passing of
the bill.

Mr. H. Drummond thought the effect of the bill in
counties would be to disfranchise all the poor voters.
The house then divided; the numbers were—
For the bill
Against

Majority ...

93

IRISII COURT OF CII&NCESY.

Mr. Whiteside moved for leave to bring in a bll to
make provisio❑ for the appointment of registrars to the
Masters of the Court of Chancery in Ireland ; also, for
the safe custody of title deeds and documents lodged in
th 3 said court, and to amend the practice in certain
particulars.

The Attorney-General for Ireland would not object to
the introduction of the bill, though ho thought the powers
possessed by the Court of Chancery rendered it unneces—
sary. L:Jave was then given. 1:J

GRAND t/RIES (IRELAND,

Captain Megan obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the Grand Juries (Ireland) Act of 1836. g

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

Mr. Efeadlana introduced his bill of last sessipn, for the
amendment of the laws relating to the medical profession.
The objects of the bill are that there shall be the same
system of education fur the medical profession throughout
the United Kingdom—that license should to given to
practice in each of the three kingdoms, and that there
should be a perfect register of the profession.
The house adjourned at five o'clock.

A KNAPSACK IN A CREVASSE.--The cases of men lost
or nearly lost in glacier crevasses have, in every instance
that we can recollect, .been of those who were unaccom-
panied. A clergyman named Mouron is probably the only
amateur who has died in consequence. Behrer, a peasant
of Grindelwald, slipped once alone into the upper glacier
of that valley, and after three hours of sufferings, such aS
we may imagine in that horrible dungeon, regained the
upper world. Michel Devonassou, of Chamonni, fell into
a crevasse on the glacier of Talefre, a feeder of the Mer
de Glace, on the 29th of July, 1836, and after a severe
struggle extricated himself, leaving his knapsack beloW•
The identical knapsack reappeared in July, 1846, at 0,
spot on the surface of the glacier 4,300 feet from the place
where it was lost, as ascertained by Professor Forbes,
who himself collected the fragments, thus indicating the
rate of flow of the icy river in the intervening
.10 years.—"
Quarterly Revietu,.new number.