§ VISCOUNT NEWPORTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, before any action is taken respecting the re-arrangement of Circuits, an opportunity will be given to the localities affected to state their views?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, that no action with respect to the re-arrangement of Circuits could be made except by Statute or Order in Council, which would be laid on the Table of the House. In either case Parliament would have cognizance of the matter. He was authorized to say that the Lord Chancellor would be glad to receive any representation from localities which might suppose that they would be affected by any change made.