§ MR. POWELLsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether a Report has been received from the Commission appointed to revise the scale of remuneration to witnesses and professional men engaged at assizes and sessions; to what portion of the matters referred such Report, if partial, extends, and whether the Government intend to introduce a more liberal scale of remuneration to witnesses and professional men so engaged?
§ MR. SOTHERON ESTCOURTsaid, that the Commissioners had last year made a partial and preliminary Report on the subject referred to them, and he hoped their final Report would be ready for presentation in a short time—certainly before the close of the present Session. Until, however, that final Report had been received no action could be taken upon it by the Government. He had entire confidence that the Report would be satisfactory to the country.