The LORD CHANCELLORmoved, that the Commons' Amendments to this Bill be considered. He would advise their Lordships to agree to the Amendments which had been made, with one exception. The Commons had struck out the clause which gave the Judge, when he directed an amendment in an indictment, to be made on the trial, the power of discharging the jury, and postponing the trial of a prisoner, so that no one might be taken by surprise. The Commmons had struck out this provision, thus leaving the law in a state which he was satisfied would frequently work injustice, and therefore he recommended their Lordships not to assent to that alteration.
§ The Motion was agreed to.
§ Some Amendments agreed to, and others disagreed to; and a Committee appointed to prepare Reasons, to be offered to the Commons for the Lords disagreeing to one of the said Amendments.