§ MR. RATHBONEasked Mr. Attorney General, Whether he can give an assurance that no scheme involving the taking away of the Assizes for Civil and Criminal business from Anglesey and Carnarvon will be sanctioned by the Lord Chancellor or the Privy Council without affording those interested an opportunity of stating their case?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES), in reply, said, that the matter was under consideration; but, at the same time, any representations which the hon. Member might be good enough to make on behalf of his constituents would be most fully considered.
§ MR. BULWERasked if any scheme dealing with the alteration of the Assizes would be laid before Parliament, and whether there would be an opportunity of considering it?
§ THE ATTOENEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES)said, that some schemes, of course, would require legislation, while others would be effected by Orders in Council.
§ MR. BULWERasked whether the Judges or the Privy Council had the power to take away the Assizes from a particular place without the sanction of Parliament?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES)said, that was a very peculiar point; but the better opinion was that there was no power except by legislation to deprive a particular place of the Assizes.