§ MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to a recent trial at the Hereford Assizes, in which Lord Chief Justice Coleridge stated that a farmer named George Walkins had been illegally fined £2 by the Abbeydore Magistrates, and that whoever had got the £2 and did not give it back very quickly would probably find himself in a scrape; and that it was subsequently admitted that the Excise had got this money; and, whether restitution has been ordered?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (MR. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)Yes, Sir; I have seen a newspaper account of this trial. The whole case has bean, I understand, referred for consideration to the Law Officers of the Crown, to whom any further Question on the subject should be addressed.