§ Lord Lyndhurstbegged to ask the noble Marquess, whether the gentleman who had been recently appointed solicitor to the Home Office, was to be allowed to 1022 hold with that office the situation of the secretaryship to bankrupts?
The Marquess of Normanbywas glad to answer the question of his noble and learned Friend. The gentleman alluded to, had been appointed to the situation of solicitor to the Home Office, with the distinct understanding that it was impossible that he should continue to hold the office of secretary to bankrupts. He had held both offices up to the present time for the convenience of his noble and learned Friend on the woolsack; but it was never intended that both offices should permanently be vested in one person.
§ Lord LyndhurstI put the question because I have before me a paper of so late a dale as the 31st of March, signed by I hat gentleman as secretary of bankrupts.
§ Adjourned.