§ MR. HOPWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the complaint made by the justices of Altrincham, in the county of Chester, that they were called upon to try offences committed at Knutsford, seven miles off; whether, the police gave as an excuse that they could find no magistrate at Knutsford; whether, in consequence, prisoners are sometimes kept at Knutsford several days for trial, and are conveyed handcuffed to Altrincham; and, whether he will use his influence to correct this state of things?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, some of the magistrates at Knutsford having been returned to that House, and others having died, he had received representations as to the inconvenience which had thus been caused in the neighbourhood, and had sent them to the Lord Lieutenant in order that he might take action in the matter.