THE LORD CHANCELLORpresented the Report of the Select Committee to which the several Bills for the consolidation of the Statute Criminal Law were referred; stating that the Committee had 747 gone through these Bills and made various Amendments, which were now reported to their Lordships. The Committee was attended not only by law Lords but also by several lay Lords, and the Bills wore in such a state now that he trusted that they would be adopted by both Houses of Parliament and become law.
§ Bills committed to a Committee of the whole House on Thursday next.