§ MR. NORWOODasked Mr. Attorney General, Whether his attention has been called to the irregular sittings in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court owing to the repeated absence of Mr. Justice Butt on Circuit; and, whether, looking to the very serious inconvenience and loss thereby sustained by the mercantile community, arrangements cannot be made for continuous sittings of the Court of Admiralty?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES), in reply, said, he regretted that the necessary absence of Mr. Justice Butt on one of the Circuits had caused delay; but that Division was better than some of the other Courts, inasmuch as there were two Judges assigned to it, one of whom sat permanently in London. The Lord Chancellor, together with the aid of several of the Judges, had proposed a scheme by which it was hoped to relieve many of the Judges from going into the country on Circuit when there was no business to be done. Before the next Circuit it was hoped that scheme would be carried into effect.