MR. STANLEYasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Whether an inquiry recently held at Grange over Sands, Lancashire, respecting "the duties and emoluments of the Guides of the Lancaster (and Ulverston) Sands," has been instituted with a view to the abolition of those offices, or to their more efficient performance?
§ MR. CHILDERS,in reply, said, that some weeks ago he received a representation from a magistrate residing in the neighbourhood of Grange to the effect that the Guide of the Lancaster Sand had been brought six times before the bench of magistrates on charges of drunkenness, that all his property had been sold, and that his family had quitted him. He was not aware at the time that he could have anything to do with this Guide, as the Duchy possessed no property in that part of the country; but on inquiry he found that the office, and 1294 also the office of Guide over the Ulverston Sands, were in the gift of the Duchy of Lancaster, which was responsible for the proper discharge of their duties. The Chairman of the Petty Sessions at Ulverston had at his request undertaken to make an inquiry into the matter, and he hoped soon to have the aid of that gentleman's advice.