§ In reply to MR. HIBBERT,
MR. ASSHETON CROSSsaid, that the Prisons Commissioners, whose ap- 1528 pointment was just announced, were appointed under the recent Act which gave power to appoint them at once. Although the Act itself did not come into operation immediately, it was necessary that preliminary arrangements should be made by the Commissioners. The four gentlemen were all to be paid. Two of them were old directors of prisons and two were magistrates, one taken from the North and one from the South.