§ SIR EDWARD WATKINasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is proposed to add to the number of magistrates for the city of Exeter; and, whether a list of ten gentlemen, all Conservatives, has been sent up to the Lord Chancellor for him to select from; and whether, of these ten, one is a wine merchant and three others practising solicitors?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSSir, in reply to the Question of the hon. Member, I beg to say that I know nothing as to any proposal to add to the number of magistrates for the City of Exeter. My noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor desires me to say that he has 392 not received any application for the appointment of additional magistrates for the City, and I am therefore entirely ignorant whether one aspirant to the office is a wine merchant and three others are practising solicitors.