§ MR. SHERRIFFsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he can inform the House when the Report of the Judicial Commission will be issued; whether it is intended to be sent out in two parts; and, if so, whether the recommendations of the Commission as to alteration of Assize Districts will be contained in the first or second portion of the Report?
§ MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSENsaid, in reply to the Question of the hon. Member, that he had that evening presented the First Report of the Judicial Commission, from which statement his hon. Friend would doubtless infer that there was another part to follow. The Commissioners declare their opinion that the judicial business of the country ought no longer to be distributed according to the accidental division of counties, but that certain counties should be consolidated in convenient districts, and they also recommended the remodelling of circuits. The details of their scheme were not stated in the present Report, but merely the general grounds upon which they had arrived at their decision.