§ MR. COOPEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in consideration of the great extra amount of work which has been imposed on the Metropolitan police magistrates by several Acts of Parliament since 1838, at which time their stipends were fixed, he is prepared to make any, and what augmentation to their salaries?
§ MR. FORSYTHasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he intends to recommend an increase of the salaries paid to the Magistrates of the Police Courts of the Metropolis?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, the Government were quite aware that the salaries of the police magistrates were fixed a long time since, and that other Law Officers who now performed functions certainly not more important than those magistrates, were in receipt of much higher salaries. They thought the matter was one which deserved the greatest consideration, and it was at the present moment under their consideration.