§ MR. VANCEsaid, as, according to the Act of Parliament, no new Master in Chancery for Ireland could be appointed without the consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, he wished to ask whether it was the intention of the Government to fill up the present vacant mastership?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONThe question is still under consideration, and no decision has been come to upon the subject.
MR. WHITE SIDEsaid, perhaps he might be permitted to remind the noble Lord that there were only four Masters in Chancery in Ireland, until a fifth Master was transferred from the Court of Exchequer to the Court of Chancery. The Statute, however, made provision that when the new Master died another was not to be appointed without the consent of the Lords of the Treasury.