§ LORD BELPERhaving presented a petition from Robert Hulton, of Putney Park, complaining of delays in the Incumbered Estates Court (Ireland), and praying for measures to remove the cause thereof;
THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid, he would take that opportunity of stating that the Government had had their attention called very recently to the state of that Court. The Government had hoped that 329 two Commissioners might be sufficient to transact the business of the Court; but from representations recently made to them they had come to the conclusion that, whatever might be done eventually, there must be a successor appointed for the present to the office vacated by Baron Richards, in order to wind up the business of which he had charge when he retired from the Court.