§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, since it is a common practice in counties to hand over the prosecutions to the magistrates' clerk upon the committal of the accused, and that the clerks to the borough magistrates are expressly prohibited by statute from being directly or indirectly interested in the prosecution of any person committed by those justices, he is prepared to introduce or support a measure to secure the disinterestedness of the legal advisers of county magistrates?
§ MR. HIBBERT, in reply, said, the Home Secretary would take the earliest opportunity of putting the clerks in. counties on a footing with those in boroughs.