LORD BROUGHAMsaid, he would introduce to their Lordships, for the third time, a Bill on a subject of very great 535 importance. It was a Bill for consolidating and amending the criminal code. That Bill had been thoroughly considered and greatly improved; and he hoped that when it was passed in that House, it would also be fairly considered elsewhere, and that no fatal alterations might be made in it, as had been made in the Bankruptcy Consolidation Bill, whereby many criminals had been enabled to escape from justice.
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