HC Deb 21 July 1879 vol 248 c955

Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [16th July], "That the Bill be now read a second time."

Question again proposed.

Debate resumed.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir JOHN HOLKER)

I wish to make one or two observations with reference to this Bill, and I hope that the House will now allow it to be read a second time. I then propose to move that it be committed pro formâ. I think that course will meet with the approval of the House, and I may say that I make the proposal in consequence of the recommendation of the hon. and learned Member for Coventry (Sir Henry Jackson). I have only this further remark to make—that the Government will be quite willing, next Session, to introduce into the House a Bill for the consideration of the Law of Bankruptcy—that has been suggested, and the Government are quite willing to do so. I have to move that the Bill be now read a second time.

MR. WHITWELL

thought there could be no doubt that the only plan for remedying the present defects of the law was to adopt the course suggested by the hon. and learned Gentleman.

MR. DILLWYN

complained that a Bill of an important character like the present had been left to that period of the Session. He only hoped that Her Majesty's Government would not attempt to force the amended Bill through the House at that late period of the Session, for it seemed to him that it would be very likely to give rise to considerable discussion.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill read a second time, and committed; considered in Committee, and reported; to be printed, as amended [Bill 254]; re-committed for Monday next.

House adjourned at a quarter before Four o'clock in the morning.