MR. CARTER (for Mr. PLIMSOLL)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the Government intend to prosecute the owners of the "Druid" for sending that vessel to sea in a state which drew from the Court of Inquiry two expressions of their opinion that the owners were guilty of culpable neglect; and, if not, on what grounds they refrained from a prosecution?
MR. BRUCEin reply, said, that some time ago he had received from the Board of Trade a statement with reference to the Druid, and acting upon that statement, he had written to the Solicitor of the Treasury on the 11th of June last to direct that a prosecution should be instituted.