Mr. Rigby Wasonmoved for leave to bring in a Bill to remove the Summer Suffolk Assizes from Bury St. Edmund's to Ipswich. He did not wish them removed altogether from one town to the other—all he desired was, that the Assizes might be held, as they once had been, at each of the towns alternately.
The Earl of Jermynwas opposed to the proposed Bill, and should therefore take the sense of the House upon it at this early stage of the measure.
Mr. Rigby Wasonhoped, that the Bill would be allowed to be brought in, and that the opinion of the Magistrates of the county might then be taken on it before it came to a second reading.
Mr. Lambhad always been opposed to the introduction of measures of this sort, which he thought most inconvenient, 50 and not very proper to be discussed in that House. If they were to be brought before the House, it was proper that some evidence should be given that the opinion of the Magistrates, who were connected with the places to which such measures applied, was favourable to them. He, therefore, thought that it would be better if the hon. Gentleman would withdraw his Motion until he could ascertain the opinion of the Magistrates assembled in Quarter Sessions.
§ Motion withdrawn.