§ MR. CLOUGH (Portsmouth)I beg to ask the Attorney General whether the Lord Chancellor is aware that at a special sitting of the Winchester Bankruptcy Court, held on Friday, the 18th August, 1893, before Mr. Registrar Godwin, a Petition in Bankruptcy was presented by Mr. C. S. Wooldridge, solicitor, against His Honour Judge Leonard, of the Hampshire County Court, Circuit 51; that the petitioning creditor was Mr. James Moore, Sheriff's officer of the said Judge, an auctioneer of Grove Road (South), Southsea, the amount of the debt being £278 for money lent; that the act of bankruptcy alleged in the Petition was the failure of His Honour Judge Leonard to satisfy two judgments obtained against him by the said Moore, in respect of the amount referred to, one being dated 19th March, 1891, and the other 17th April, 1891; that, on the presentation of the Bankruptcy Petition by the said Mr. Wooldridge, the learned 1885 Registrar said he had been advised that he had no power to make a Receiving Order against the said Judge in his own Court; and that the said Registrar adjourned the ease for a month to enable the petitioning creditor to make arrangements for the transfer of the proceedings to London; and what steps the Lord Chancellor proposes to take under the circumstances?
§ *THE SOLICITOR GENERAL (Sir J. RIGBY,) ForfarThe Lord Chancellor is causing inquiry to be made into the matters referred to in the question put by my hon. Friend, hut I am not in a position to make any further answer.