MR. DUDLEY FOETESCUEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his 88 attention has been called to the fact, as alleged, that no inquest has been held on any of the bodies washed ashore on the 2oast of Pembrokshire, from the wreck of the Mars steamer in April last; and that no official inquiry has been instituted into the causes that led to that disaster?
§ SIR GEOERE GREYin reply said, he had written to the coroner to ascertain why no inquests had been held, and the reply was that there were very few survivors, he believed six, and that they had all left Pembrokeshire before the bodies of those who had been drowned were washed ashore; and as no evidence could be submitted to a jury beyond the fact of the bodies having been found, it was not thought worth while to empannel a jury to verify that which was a notorious fact. With regard to an official inquiry, he believed that among the six survivors, there was no one qualified to give an, opinion as to the management of a ship.