VISCOUNT DUNGANNONasked the Lord Chancellor, whether in the next Session of Parliament it was contemplated to alter and amend the present Petty Sessional 557 Acts in Ireland, so as to assimilate them to those now in force in England and Wales?
THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid, that his right hon. Friend the Attorney General for Ireland had this subject under his consideration, and would next Session be prepared to introduce into Parliament a Bill to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to petty sessions in Ireland; but not entirely to assimilate them to the English law upon the same subject, partly because he thought that the circumstances of Ireland rendered necessary some variations from the law of England, and partly because in some respects he considered the law of Ireland superior to that of the former country.