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MISCONDUCT OP COACH DRIVSILt. - ' " . •
Mr. M. A. TATton then fillet,, ht aitenrifirr of ;7
the House to a subjrct which wes not as .16.11 4:61. *,
colited to produce mirth as the Ind, Out rvl.sch„.
oil the coistreri, loss Aro prothivtive or tile oio•t
seri )))) a evil—he alluded to thr faiiciut and waitron
practice of so many of the publicetagecoefh drivers
endangering the lives of passengers by th-ir furior a
driving. As the 14w now stood, there wan hardly
soy way of punishing those fellows; baerwer Muni-
tare or intoxicated they might Ise, uoleur death re-
suited from the accident ; by the present Caw Owe
Wu a great doubt whether thee lifpf 0 pegielvd. ,
for a misdemeanor. He knew that by the 50th of
the tole King, c. 48, there were •i.ti. or;ishi,.. is,
Marti for improper conduct, !sat where a G3e,t),.1
or other tujory short of death stow fr,u the qt:..
~ .1 or drivers, there wee no other rotti4trwrot
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tare of Nowlin., unless the driver were liable to a
criminal indictment iii case of notorioff's miseorw
duct, accordifl to the opinion of a Jury. Ii wee
true, that as the law now stood, the driver or pro.
prietor were responsible by civil action its ths •Isope
as 'penalty, which. by the way, they all paid fur
I each other by • costjuint purse ; still, in Ilia opiliciti.
no real alteration to remedy the evil Conti, eve, be
effected, unless the driver were held rifi ttt Melly re-
sponsible fur his conduct, sod liable to dor :•13(1.
imprisonment according to the cileefinminicra of t 1:r
ra.,. lle concluded by moving for leave to lortt.4
iu a Bill fur punishing crimin.illy the rlsivers of
stage coaches and carriages, for accidents occasioned
by their neglect or misconduct.
Leave ass given, and a Committee appointed to
prepare and bring ii) the Bill.
NEW INSOLVENT DEBTONS' BILL.
Lord ALTHORP rove. to purenuoce of his notice,
to move for lease to bring in a Bill for the BAD( of
Insolvent Debtors. The Bill winch lie. meant fis
propose was the same as that svh.flo he had •,) 14Friy
brought into the last Parliament. It ads tiwrt lure
quite unnecessary for him to trellises% much upon
the time of the House, as there must be a consider-
able number present who, whilst in the last Perlis.
Meisi, mart have put themselves in powsresion of
the measure he then intended, and winch he how
meant to intro duce a second time. But as pine
mew Member* may wish for an outline of his pl.in.
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Ice should beg Irate briefly to *tide it. The tin ~f
principal objects of his Bill were—first, to give cre-
ditors
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a more easy power to detect concralment of
property on the part of fraudulent debtors; ai..l
his second was, to enable the Comminowirra of Ilie
Court so examine. out of dour,, into all matters 1.
touching the conduct and property of. tlw insolvent, Ng
so as to satisfy the creditors at large. These were
the principal alterations lie proposed introducing lit
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Isis new Bill.
Mr. LOCILIOART—" Does the Noble Lord mean
to confine the scope of his Bill to the two objects
Ice has mentioned 1"

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Lord A venom. —" Certainly not ; but hey
are the principal points."
Mr. LOCKHART expressed the satisfaction he felt
at the Noble Lord's answer, and at fin ling flint Site
new Bill meant to embrace the Pll bivel ;n a con-
pretwirtive manner. The two Bills isliearly io fnrce
certainly required much attention and alteration ;
they were merely CON tinedio the analogons 1.111111.
lion of the general practice reap, ctiag debtors and
creditor., without at all makingforoper distinctions.
There was out class of debtors Owl was, for in-
mantic. intangible by either of these Bills—he vomit
those debtors who had incurred drainage. Inuiscled
on actions at law, and who had dune great its-
jury to their neighbours ; beside", in caore of
penalties inflicted under particular Statute., they.
were permitted their discharge just as ordinary
debtors. This ought not to lie iinarnitted, for the
maxim should be adhered to, " Qui aux hubct pt.
emulate lend persona." There was one more
alteration,nil which he thought ought to be Imre-
duced. Io many cases debtors obtained their
charge merely because creditors would mot incur
the expense of opposing them. Care should be
taken that such debtors should trot escape with im-
punity. He also thought that the new haw should,
as much as powible, be assimilated to the law of
Scotland, and that the oars preitaadi of alwaing
the debtor's claim for relief should rest on himself,
and that it should not be thrown on the creditor iu
the first instance to shetv_the contrary.

Lord Aresoar said, on the second reading he
would enter fully into the merits of his Bill. Ho
added, that it provided for many of the points to
which the Hou. Gentleman had called the atten-
tion of the House, and he was glad to have the
assistance of that Hon. Member through the pro.
greys of the measure. With reference to persons
detained for penalties, he thought the term of im.
prisonment provided iu the last Bill fully tuf.
hcient.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
On the motion of Mr. Alsasattr. the following
Account* were ordered to he hild before the flou*v :
Accounts of the Net Reornue, from the 10th of October.
IBM, to the Sth of Anti', 1620, distinguishing the qaartrily
amounts.
Accounts of the deficiency in the Cemoolidated Fund, up
to the year ceding no the Sth of April, 11120, and the manner
in which it was made cowl.
The amount of Interest psi as Low, from the year
tat* is tote, distiocuishisc the modern.
Aolonsais of the Premiums sod Booming on the &mues-
lis. of Irish Limits, the camber of yard', Ate.
The Ansonia of the Esports sod Imports of Li IWO% and
of Limeiwyors, Hemp, Flax, he. daring the last tee years.
IRISH STOCK.
Oe the motion of Mr. C. Quire, leave use
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giveu to bring in Bills to enable ... —of Equity
in Ireland w compel the transfer of Stock, without
asking the Batik of Ireland or the Grand Canal
Company st party thereto; and also to regulate

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