§ MR. ONSLOWasked Mr. Attorney General, Whether it is a fact that the Lord Chancellor has written to the Lords Lieutenant of the various counties requesting them in future not to submit to him the names of any brewers for the Commission of the Peace; whether brewers are not already precluded by Law from adjudicating on licensing questions in order not to disqualify them altogether for the Magistracy; and, if BO, why the Lord Chancellor has, on his own responsibility, fettered the discretion 624 of the Lords Lieutenant; and, whether he is within his Constitutional right in so doing, and thus precluding a specified class of the community from the magisterial service without considering each special case?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES),in reply, said, he had made inquiries on the subject from the Lord Chancellor, who, he found, had a rule, that when brewers' names were submitted to him for the office of licensing magistrates, with the names of other persons who were large owners of property in boroughs and counties, his Lordship left out the names of brewers.