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of short-hand writers ! Besides which a clause o:

considerable importance has been introduced into
the Bill in its altered form, preventing the retro-
spective operation of the law upon non-traders—a
class, it should be remembered, now, for the first
time, made subject to the law of bankruptcy.
Altogether therefore the changes suggested by
the Lords' Select Committee, and adventured upon
by the Lords themselves, though various and un-

doubtedly important, are not by any means of tha

root and branch kind that the Attorney-Genera

apparently deems them to be. Lord GRANVILLE as
Leader of the House, and the Lord Chancellor in his
capacity as Chairman of the House of Lords, and in
his supreme character as the first of all our judicial
authorities, were the only dissentients who uttered
one syllable on Tuesday evening in depreciation of

the amendments introduced into the Bill of the At
torney-General. The Earl of GRANVILLE could no
allow them to be Amendments. The Lord Chan

cellor was especially angry at the striking out o

the Bill, contrary to his advice in Committee o

the suggested new Chief Judgeship in the re

constructed Court of Bankruptcy. But besides

Lord BROUGHAM'S authoritative voice, there were

raised loudly and earnestly in favour of the
acceptance of the Bankruptcy Bill, as amended,

the voices of Lord OVERSTONE, who pro

nounced a panegyric upon the Select Committee—
of Lord LYVEDEN, who pronounced the changes
made as all of them very beneficial—of Lord WENS-
LEYDALE, who enforced the claims of the Select

Committee for commendation rather than for blame

And prior to the last mentioned noble and learned
lord, the voice also of Lord ORAN WORTH was heard

on Tuesday, insisting that really and truly, after al
that had been said about it, the only substantia

alteration in principle that had been adventured
upon by the Lords, at the suggestion of the Select

Committee, was this—that the management and

collection of the funds of the creditors are made to

remain still, as they have remained now for thirty

years past (thanks to Lord BROUG SiA3l), in the
hands of the official assignees: thus entrusting

" the administration of the estate to a person who

has no interest in concealing anything, and who

will expose alike the delinquencies of the creditor

and of the debtor." Everything considered, then,
we do earnestly hope that upon mature reflection
the Attorney-General will decide not to throw

overboard the Bankruptcy Bill—in dudgeon at the

Lords' Emendations.

Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Clarence
Paget, C. 8., M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, has been
invited to distribute the prizes on Saturday next to the suc-
cessful pupils of the school frigate Conway, in connection
with the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool.

FATAL ACCIDENT WHILE BATHING IN THE
TWAMES.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon,
between the ;hours of one and two, to a lad named John
Emms, residing at 2, Lovelace-court, Strand, while bathing
in the river Thames near the Adelphi steamboat-pier. It
appears that he got out of his depth, and being unable to
swim he was drowned before his companions could reach
him.

The Italie of Turin gives the following descrip-

tion of the seal of the Bourbonist committee at Rome.
It is circular, and its surface is divided into three peas
by two concentric circles. In the outer ring formed by the
latter, we read the words : Associazione religiosa—Direz-
iftoohnrveetfiAhrarTGeletneraole del C.B. (which stands for Comitato Eol-
bonico). In the inner ring there are the words : Segretario
GlivenedernaelsedCay.,(meaning Clary)—Presidents A. (which stands
County of Trepani). In the central circle there is
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lord of the manor, bad amongmtheeemtioem
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feet of one of his comrades. It is needless to say thatt thethe
greatest alarm was occasioned. When ho was raised it
was discovered that the ball had entered the neck immedi-
ately behind the right ear, and escaped through the back
part of the skull, which was dreadfully shattered. Death
had been instantaneous. The body was immediately re-
moved to a farmhouse close by. The cause of this melan-
choly occurrence has not been definitively ascertained, but
it is conjectured that the young man,who was firing for the
first time, had imprudently brought his firelock up to full
cock before the proper time, Luta touched the trigger with
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Laws of Bankruptcy and Insolvency. The
Attorney-General expressed this vexation of his,
in point of fact, so eagerly and precipitately the
other evening that he was called to " order" for
so doing—seeing that the House of Commons was
not supposed at the time to be aware of the
decision arrived at, in this matter of the Bankruptcy
Bill, by the other branch of the Imperial Legisla-
ture. Since then the Bill has been read a third
time by the Lords, and passed. This occurred,
in fact, during the sitting of Tuesday evening.
And it is worthy of particular notice at this criti-
cal period, both in the progress of the Bill and in
the advancement of the Session, that the all but
unanimous feeling of the great legal luminaries
who spoke upon this question in the Lords on Tues-
day evening, is to the effect that the Bill, as
emended in the Lords at the instance of the Select
Committee, ought to be accepted in its new form
by the Attorney-General and perfected into an
enactment before the close of the session, with the
concurrent support of her MAJESTY'S Government.
Lord BROUGHAM, whose opinion to this effect is a
Tower of Strength to the amenders of Sir RICHARD
BETIIELL'S measure, Lord BROUGHAM led off the
discussion by avowing it as his opinion " that
though the bill might not contain all that some
people might wish to find, still it would be a most
valuable measure." The noble and learned lord
further expressing "his earnest hope, and, indeed,
his confident expectations, that, whatever differ-
ences of opinion might exist on the subject, the
amendments which had been made in the Bill
would be accepted by the other House." That, re-
collect—from Lord BROUGHAM ! The noble earl
the leader of Her MAJESTY'S Opposition imme-
diately afterwards explained, that although the
modifications adventured upon by the Lords, at the
instance of the Select Committee, were many of
them, undoubtedly, most important, the leading
principles of the measure were still left in their full
integrity untouched.
In point of fact, the three conspicuous
principles comprised within this remarkable
measure remain, beyond a doubt, unaltered
by the Lords, uninterfered with in any way by the
Lords' Select Committee. First of all—the amal-
gamation of Bankruptcy and Insolvency ! Secondly
—the obliteration henceforth of all distinctions
hitherto subsisting between traders and non-
traders ! Thirdly—the extension to the already
hard-worked County Courts of bankruptcy jurisdic-
tion. Objections there were to these last two prin-
ciples, objections recognised and articulated both in
the Lords and in the Select Committee. But in spite
of that—they have been left thus in this Bill, as we
have said, unaltered in any way whatever. The
principal changes adventured upon in the Lords being
on the other hand—Firstly, the rejection of the
appointment of the Chief Judge of the Court of
Bankruptcy ! Secondly, the Committee, first of all,
and the Lords afterwards, struck out certain provi-
sions relative to the duties of the official assignees
and the creditors' assignees ! Thirdly, they swept
aside, among other provisions deemed by them to
be injudicious, those necessitating the employment