§ SIR JAMES HASLETT (Belfast, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware of the desire of the commercial community in Belfast and surrounding districts that a winter assize for civil business should be held in Belfast; and if he will take such steps as may be necessary to secure this object.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) In the selection of the venue for winter assizes the governing consideration is the effective, convenient, and economical administration of justice. This depends on a number of changing circumstances, 1110 which vary from year to year, so that it is impossible at this period to give the undertaking asked for in the Question.