§ MR. COBB (Warwick, S.E., Rugby)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the fact that no report has appeared in the Press of the proceedings upon the inquest as to the death of the late Duke of Bedford, he will ask the Coroner to furnish to the Home Office a copy of the depositions taken at the inquest, and the names and addresses of the jurors? I also desire to know whether it is not the fact that no notice of any kind was given of this inquest on the list at the Coroner's office, as is usual in the case of all inquests?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS, Birmingham, E.)The Coroner has been good enough to send me the depositions in this case, and I am satisfied after perusing them that there is nothing to call for further inquiry or interference on my part, or to require that I should take the unprecedented course of asking for the names and addresses of the jurors. As to the last question, I will make further inquiry on the subject.
§ MR. PICKERSGILLI should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will put this specific question to the Coroner; whether, in the usual lists of 1025 inquests exhibited at his office, the late Duke of Bedford was described as Francis Charles Hastings, without any indication of his rank or title?
§ MR. MATTHEWSCertainly.