§ MR. WILLSasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, When it is intended to proceed by writ of "capias" in the Queen's Bench Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice against John Rafferty of Monaghan, who was charged in February last before the Liverpool Stipendiary with being concerned in smuggling 2,405 pounds of leaf tobacco concealed in fifty casks, entered as containing flax seed, and also with being implicated in three other smuggling transactions of great magnitude, the said John Rafferty having been then discharged by the Stipendiary Magistrate from the custody of the police on the application of the Commissioners of Customs, who intimated their intention to prosecute in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. CHILDERS)Yes, Sir; proceedings are being taken in Rafferty's case, and it is set down for hearing this term. It is not, however, possible, as yet, to give the exact date of hearing.