Lord Ellenboroughwished to call the attention of the noble and learned Lord on the woolsack and the noble and learned Lord opposite, to what had passed at the end of the last Session relating to a clause in the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, which compelled the proprietors of newspapers to insert the advertisements in insolvent cases, however long, for the small sum of 2s. 6d. He thought, that it was promised when the bill was passed, that a measure should be introduced in the early part of the present Session to relieve the proprietors from the burden of the insertion of advertisements inconveniently long for so small a sum.
§ The Lord Chancellorsaid, that as to making the proprietors publish insolvents' advertisements for a certain sum, there was the same provisions in the old Act as in the new. He could not, however, recollect any promise or any intimation, that any measure would be introduced to repeal or to alter this clause.
§ Subject dropped.