§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR rose to present a Bill for the punishment of Fraudulent Debtors, and to which he asked their Lordships to give a first reading. The Bill was intended to be a supple- 642 mentary measure to the Bankruptcy Bill which had gone down from their Lordships' House, but which, in consequence of the pressure of other Business, had been stopped in its progress through the House of Commons. Of course, he had no idea that any progress beyond the first reading in their Lordships' House could be made this Session with the Bill which he was now about to lay on the Table, but he wished to lay it on the Table in order that it might be considered by the country during the Recess.
§ Bill for the punishment of Fraudulent Debtors, and for other purposes, presented by The LORD CHANCELLOR; read la. (No. 192.)