§ MR. ARTHUR ELLIOTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the approaching Summer Circuits, Whether it is intended so to commission Her Majesty's Judges as to restrict criminal business at the assizes to cases committed for trial to the assizes, or whether it is intended to further employ Her Majesty's Judges, as at the late Spring Circuits, in the trial of "Sessions Cases?"
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTThis is a matter over which I have no control. It is settled by the Judges themselves, and their view is that at their Circuits there must be a gaol delivery of all prisoners, whether committed to the Assizes or to the Quarter Sessions.
§ MR. ARTHUR ELLIOTThe right hon. and learned Gentleman is aware that since the last Circuit some changes have been made.
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTThe change has been the result of a decision come to at a meeting of the Judges.