§ Sir James Mackintoshrose for the purpose of shortly stating his intention to postpone the further progress of some of the bills he had introduced into parliament in amendment of the penal code of this country.—In consequence of a conversation which he had had with the law officers of die Crown, he was aware of their intention to oppose three of these bills; and in the present state of public business, and when the mind of every member was occupied so deeply in the consideration of one unfortunate question, he should think it ill-became him to press forward those bills which were so important to the country He entertained a reasonable hope that there would be time in the course of the present session to terminate the subject, but for the present he should only move the second of those bills on which he did not anticipate opposition. The Limitation of Forgeries bill, the Repeal of the Statute act relative to Larceny, and the Navigable Rivers Robbery bill, were the three on which he expected opposition. The other three he hoped his learned friend the attorney-general would allow to pass their second readings, leaving the discussion on them to take place in the committee, on the bringing up of the report.
§ The said bills were then read a second time.