§ MR. BENTINCKsaid, he wished to ask a Question of the Secretary of State for the Home Department of which he had given him private notice, Whether any answer has been received from the Chief Constable of the county of Norfolk to the 959 communication which had been addressed to him by the right hon. Baronet as to the accuracy of the statement of the alleged mortality among children in the parish of Emneth, in the county of Norfolk?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, in reply, that a detailed statement having been made on the authority of the coroner for Lynn with reference to the alleged mortality among children in the parish of Emneth, he had referred it to the chief constable of the county in order that inquiry might be made; and he had received from him the day before the House adjourned a full Report, which showed that the statement of the coroner was very grossly exaggerated. That statement having attained extensive circulation by being made in that House, he thought it would only be right that the Report of the chief constable should be laid on the table; and if the hon. Gentleman (Mr. Bentinck) moved for it, the Report would be produced and printed. He might add that with the Report from the Chief Constable of the county he would produce a letter from the clergyman giving a statement of the circumstances of the parish.