§ MR. BRISTOWsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state why no Inquest was held by the Coroner upon the body of a Coastguardsman who was killed by one of the trains of the South-Eastern Railway Company on their North Kent line, at Milton, next Gravesend, on or about the 1st day of February last?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that in reply to a communication made to the Coroner, stating that dissatisfaction had been expressed at his omission to hold an inquest, that Gentleman explained that he was not surprised at the dissatisfaction which had arisen, but that, in declining to hold the inquest, he had only acted upon the instructions issued by the magistrates of the county to Coroners, and not on his own view of the requirements of the case.