§ MR. VANCEsaid, he would beg to 1327 ask Mr. Attorney General, If he will fix a day on which to move that the Lords' Amendments on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill be taken into consideration?
THE ATTORNEY GENERALSir, I will now state what I intended to say the other evening. I have had no opportunity of fully considering those Amendments myself, or of submitting the effect of them to Her Majesty's Government. I think that a certain time should be allowed the country to give its opinion upon the nature of those Amendments. They were discussed, as the House is aware, in a Secret Committee; and under those circumstances I cannot fix a day, but it shall be as early as possible, and any course which I shall take will be dictated entirely by views of public utility. The Bill, as amended, is ordered to be reprinted, so as to show the extent of the Amendments.