§ MR. MAURICE HEALY (Cork)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the remarks of Mr. Justice Grantham at Chelmsford, reported in The Standard of the 2nd instant, as regards the enormous expense and inconvenience involved in the system of transferring prisoners and witnesses from one county to another, made necessary by the Winter Assizes Act; whether there is any reason to doubt that a Circuit of the going Judge from county to county would involve much less inconvenience and expense; 883 and, whether the Government propose to take any action in the matter?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.), in reply, said, that his attention had been called to the remarks of the learned Judge. He could only say that the question of public convenience and public expense was very fully considered when the present arrangement was made.