§ MR. C. FORSTERsaid, he rose to ask Mr. Attorney General, Whether it is his intention to re-introduce the Bill which passed this House in the Session of 1866, for altering the Law of Forfeiture on Conviction of Felony? Five years ago he had himself introduced a Bill on the subject, and it was read a second time without opposition; but in deference to the suggestion that such a Bill should be in the hands of Government, he resigned the question to the then Attorney General, the hon. and learned Member for Richmond (Sir Roundell Palmer), who introduced a Bill dealing with it in 1866. That Bill passed through all its stages without opposition, but when it reached the other House there came a change of Government and the Bill was dropped. The consideration of the question was again adjourned from time to time, but he trusted that the injustice and inconvenience of the present system would not be allowed to continue much longer.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsaid, it would be impossible at this period of the Session for the Government to bring in a Bill on the subject; but if the hon. Member would undertake to bring in such a Bill at some future period he thought it was not unlikely that he should be able to co-operate with him in carrying it through Parliament.