§ MR. COBBETTsaid, he had intended to have given notice of a Motion, "That the Minutes of the Evidence taken in 1851 by the Select Committee appointed to consider the state of the law and practice as regards the taking of Inquisitions in cases of Death, and the appointment, duties, and remuneration of the Officers employed therein, be laid before this House." That Committee had not reported, because its labours had been brought suddenly to a close by the termination of the Session, and they recommended that the inquiry should be renewed at some future time. His attention had been attracted to the subject by the recent interference of the Magistrates of Yorkshire with the office of Coroner, which he thought rendered it desirable that the inquiry should be renewed in the ensuing Session. As the evidence taken before 2075 the Committee of 1851 was in the library, he had thought it might be convenient that it should be printed. Perhaps, however, the right hon. Gentleman (Sir G. Grey) might be of opinion that it would be better to reappoint the Committee and continue the inquiry, and instead of putting the Motion on the paper, he would ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he would object to the reappointment of the Committee in the ensuing Session?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, he thought it highly desirable that a Committee should be appointed to pursue the inquiriy which the Committee of 1851 had commenced. As the evidence of that Committee was incomplete and ex parte, there might be objections to printing it, but it might be laid before the Committee appointed nest Session.