§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is true that the names of the two gentlemen just appointed magistrates for the borough of Ryde have, contrary to usage, been interpolated on the roll of the Commission of the Peace before the names of the existing justices; and, if this has been so done, if he would state why?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, it was true that the names of the two gentlemen who had just been appointed magistrates for the borough of Ryde had been interpolated on the roll of the Commission of the Peace before the names of existing justices, but it was not true that this had been done contrary to usage. From inquiries which he had made at the Crown Office he found that it was the invariable custom that gentlemen whose names were placed on the Commission of the Peace were placed on the roll according to their rank; and the two gentlemen who had just been appointed, having the precedence, had been put on the roll in the order of their precedence, and nothing more.