§ MR. COBBI beg to ask the Attorney General whether, in view of 1131 the remarks made at the trial of the Walsall Anarchists on the hardship of criminal jurors having to wait during the hearing without remuneration, when he is reported to have promised to take note of the matter as a great hardship, he will consider the desirability of amending the law at an early date in order to give reasonable allowances for loss of time, and travelling, and other expenses to jurymen at Assizes, Quarter Sessions, and Coroner's inquests?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir R. WEBSTER,) Isle of WightHer Majesty's Government are fully alive to the burden which is imposed upon jurors in criminal cases by the fact that no allowance is made for their expenses, and the matter is receiving consideration. It is, however, a question of considerable difficulty, and it is necessary that accurate information should be obtained as to the probable charge which the amendment of the law suggested by the hon. Member would entail upon the Exchequer.