§ MR. WESTasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether it is the intention of the Lord Chancellor to fill up the County Court Judgeship rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Dimsdale, before the Motion respecting the reduction of the number of County Court Judges, now standing for Friday next, is disposed of?
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, in reply, said, the Lord Chancellor had directed inquiry to be made how far the circuit lately filled by Mr. Dimsdale could with advantage and propriety be absorbed into other circuits. If it could it would be so absorbed, but not otherwise. In the course of the last two or three months two County Court Judgeships had been suppressed by the Lord Chancellor; but the Government could give no pledge as to the suppression of particular Judgeships or the reduction of the number to 35, and he would remind the hon. and learned Gentleman that nobody had fixed that limit but himself.