§ * MR. REESI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether arrangements can be made whereby persons of comparatively small means living in the suburbs of London can be spared from such frequent calls to serve on special and common juries as are made upon them at present.
§ * MR. GLADSTONEI have no authority with regard to the arrangements for summoning jurors, and cannot give any instructions in the matter. Service on juries is a public duty which must necessarily cause some inconvenience to those on whom it falls, but I have no reason to think that residents in London suburbs have any special grievance in this matter.
§ * MR. REESIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that such summonses seem to be escaped by persons living in houses with high rents?
§ MR. GLADSTONENo, Sir. I am not aware of that.