COLONEL SYKESsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. Member for Peeblesshire, What progress has been made in adapting the form of the Scotch Judicial Annual Returns to those of England, as promised some Sessions back by the Lord Advocate?
§ SIR GRAHAM MONTGOMERY, in reply, stated, that no progress had been made in the direction indicated, and was not aware that any promise had been 1565 made; but, from a Report of the Crown Agent of Scotland, dated the 24th of July, 1863, he found that two volumes of statistics were in the Home Office, one relating to police and the other to common law and equity. Consideration would be given to the question as to what steps should be taken to secure a compilation of the statistics.
COLONEL SYKESsaid, that at present the Scotch statistics were absolutely useless, from the form in which they were set out.
§ SIR GRAHAM MONTGOMERYpromised that the matter should be dealt with next Session.