§ MR. RAIKESsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure, during next Session, with the object of enabling juries to convict persons guilty of infanticide, without exposing them to the sentence of death now necessarily pronounced, but never carried out in such cases?
MR. BRUCESir, I am unable to give any pledge on this subject, more especially as I am in doubt, as at present advised, whether it would be proper to consider infanticide apart from the general question of murder.