§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. SERJEANT SIMON,in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, explained that his object was simply that it should reach the same stage which it had done last Session. He had no intention of pressing it further at present, but would wait until the House had an opportunity of seeing the large and comprehensive measure consolidating and dealing with the whole question of the Criminal Law which had been promised by Her Majesty's Government.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Serjeant Simon.)
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsaid, his hon. and learned Friend would probably find that many of the questions dealt with in the present Bill were included in the measure which the Government were about to introduce. On the understanding that his hon. and learned Friend did not proceed with the Bill further without previously consulting the Government, he would have no objection to its being read a second time.
§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONintimated his willingness to give an undertaking to that effect.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock till Monday next.