and divided. With regard to the first of these points, the Times says, (and it is an opinion whioh, in substance, we have often heard Sir George Arney promulgate from the Bench,), that there are only two reasons why Courts or creditors should be troubled with the affairs of a debtor. The one is to preserve his person from imprisonment ; the other to pre serve his estate from loss, mismanagement, or unfair distribution. "Where there is no estate, as is almost uniformly the case with insolvents who are not traders, and no imprisonment, there is no occasion for anybody to trouble himself about the debtor. Subsequently, the Times goes on to say (and we ourselves entirely agree with the sentiments expressed by it) :— " We regret, however, to see that the "Attorney-General proposes to retain im " prisonment for debt in cases of fraud, or u other outrage, as he expresses it. This seems "to us to spring 'from a confusion of ideas. " When we have got rid of the idea of taking " a man's body in satisfaction of his debt, we " have no pretext for taking him as a debtor "at all. Imprisonment for fraud should be " the result of criminal prosecution, and not "under an obsolete and barbarous process, "which considered that the creditor was satis "fied by taking a man's body for his debt, "just in the same way as he was satisfied by "taking his goods." In the second place, the English Attorney- G-eneral suggests that the proper persons to collect and manage the estate belonging to the creditors are the creditors themselves, acting by a professional agent, appointed and paid by them on each separate occasion, and thus having the strongest interest to acquit himself creditably and satisfactorily to his employers. The Attorney-G-eneral thinks, and we agree with him, that the Bankruptcy Court, though a good means of inquiring into the conduct of the bankrupt, would be an expensive and inefficient administrator of his estate. Surely the members of the G-eneral Assem bly could contrive to afford themselves lei sure, during this ensuing session, to devote a small portion of their time to this important matter. 