§ MR. CROSSLEYsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General, if it was the intention of the Government to introduce any measure during the present Session to amend the Law of Bankruptcy by which the present costs might be greatly lessened: And whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce any measure by which creditors, by means of deeds of assignment, which should not as at present be deemed acts of bankruptcy, might be enabled by themselves to wind up insolvent estates?
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsaid, with respect to the first part of the question of the hon. Member as to the introduction in the course of the present Session of a measure for lessening the costs of proceedings in bankruptcy, he was not aware that the attention of the Government 1487 had been directed to the subject; and, with respect to the second part of the question, he had to state that the matter was under the consideration of Government.