The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-16 00:00:00

BILL.

Toe house went into committee on thi3 bill, on the
mot..;on of the ATTORNEY-GENERA.L for IRE-
LAND.

Oa the Ist clause,

Mr. MACARTN EY said that, as in a com-
tnittee of progress, he could not move the refer-
ence of this bill to a select committee, that its
pecuniary and official clauses might be properly
c msidered, he should men ly confine his remarks to
Viose clauses, and at a future stage of the bill move their
reference to a select commitAe for the object be had
stated. The hon. gentleman, at some length, entered
into the constitetioe of the present Bankruptcy and In-
solvent Courts in Ireland, and t' e number of judges and
officers connected with them, and the salaries paid to
them. The present bill contained 430 clauses. 30 of
them referred to the constitution and pecuniary arrange-
ment of the new courts ; 4 to the stamp duties ; 271 to
bankruptcy ; 72 to insolvency ; and 19 to joint bank-
ruptcy and insolvency administration. The clauses were
mixed up in such a manner in the bill that they required
the most serious consideration and attention of a select
committee to put them in a shape to be properly and
easily understood. He asked-the committee to suspend
the consideration of the pecuniary and official clauses
until after they had been considered attentively
by a select committee. Tile honourable gentle-
man said that a looie system was adopted by the
Treasury towards the Irish law courts, and referred to
a charge of 37,0001. advanced by the Treasury, within
two years, teevaids the payment of the Bankruptcy
Compensation Fund, Chancery Compensation Fee Fund,
and the Suitors' Joe Fund.
Mr. VANCE alio urged various objections to the
bill. Great inconvenience mnst result from combining
bankruptcy and insolvency in the same court. He also
objected the clauses putting the officers of the old
court, who were capable of discharging their duties for
many years to come, on the Treasury compensation
scale, to their injury and the increase of charges on the
public funds that would be occasioned thereby.
Mr. \VHITESIDE was at a loss to understand why
the distinction should be kept up between bankruptcy
and insolvency. It inflicted great injustice on many,
and he instanced the case of a gentleman who succeeded
to an estate in Ireland, on which there were certain
charges to some of which he made himself liable. He
gave up everything. His estate was sold in the In-
cumbered Estates Court, and he was made an insolvent,
the effect of which was that he was still liable, whereas
if he bad been made a bankrupt he would have received
his certificate and become a new man. (Hear, hear.)
The learned gentleman also objected to the abolition
and creation of so many law offie,s in Ireland, andisaid
that he intended w move for a return of the number of
persons capable of attending to business who had been
compensated or pensioned by the Government to make
room for new officers on every change that took
place in the administration of the law in Ire-
land. He assured the committee that they would
be astonished at the number of pensioned law-officers
walking idly about the streets of Dublin who were in
the prime of life and capable of discharging efficiently
very important duties. This bill would add to the num-
ber. This bill if passed would entail great expense with-
out a corresponding benefit. Re concurred in the sug-
gestion that the bill should be referred to a select com-
mittee, as the result might tend to the improvement of
the bankruptcy and insolvent law of England and Ire-
land, by abolishing the distinction that at present existed
between the two.

[LEFT SITTING.]

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--;This Day.)

LONDON, Jane 16.—Wind this day at noon, N.E.; strong
breeze, and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, June 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Stag,
from Youghal; Australia, Belize. Sailed—Falke, Phila-
delphia; Nile, Calcutta.
SOUTHAMPTON, June 15.—Arrived—Sidney Trade, from
Youghal
PLYMOUTH, June 15.--Wind E.S.E.—.Arrived—Hurst,
from Newcastle for Quebec. •
MILFORD, June 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived---Vampire,
from Swansea for the Cape of Good Hope, with a leak in
the bows.
SWANSEA, June 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Child, from
Coquimbo; Balmoral, Bayonne.
SHIELDS, June 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Chapman,
from Iquiqui ; Harriet Sophia, Bayonne.
SUNDERLAND, June 15.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—Octa-
via, for Bombay. •
HULL, June 15. —Wind S.E.—Arrived—Pacific, from
Manzanilla.
OFF HURST CASTLE, June 16.—Colombo (s.), from
Alex mdria.
CLYDE, June 13.—Arrived—Sailed—William Sorlie, for
Halifax, N.S.; Vasca de Gama (s.), Lisbon.
CARDIFF, June 11.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Annette, for
Ancona; Providence, Malta; Sloga, ditto; Nova Klas,
ditto.
BELFAST, June 15.—Arrived—Venilla, from Buenos
Ayres.
GLASGOW, June 15.—The Prince of Wales, from Trini-
dad to the Clyde, was spoken on the 21st May, in lat. 31.
N., long. 56 W., making water, by the Copia, arrived in
the Clyde.