§ MR. T. ROBINSON (Gloucester)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill this Session to amend the law and practice in regard to the administration of estates in the Court of Chancery, with the view of preventing the great delay, and diminishing the heavy cost so frequently attending such administration in that Court; and whether he will consider the desirability of having a yearly official Return made of all estates in course of administration in the Court of Chancery, and of taking power to transfer the administration of any such estates as may be found to be insolvent into the Bankruptcy Court, to be wound up according to the practice of that Court and in sight of the public.
§ * MR. W. H. SMITHThe Government intend to deal with the subject of the first part of the Question by carrying out as far as possible the recommendations of the Committee presided over by the Master of the Rolls, whose Report is on the Table of the House; but we are not at present able to say whether legislation will become necessary to give full effect to those recommendations. With regard to the second part of the Question, which requires much consideration, the Lord Chancellor will be communicated with.