MR. HERBERTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the hardship inflicted upon jurors of the working-classes when, in addition to the loss of wages, they are compelled to pay railway fares amounting to a substantial sum when such jurors reside at a distance from an assize town; and whether, having regard to such hardship and to the public service upon which such jurors are engaged, he is prepared to make provision for the payment to jurors of travelling expenses not exceeding the parliamentary railway fare.
§ MR. GLADSTONEMy attention has been called to this matter, but I have no authority to make provision for the payment of jurymen's travelling expenses. Legislation would be required for that purpose, and I fear I can make no promises in regard to it.