§ MR. VANCEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he intends to introduce any measure this Session to regulate the office of Coroner in Ireland?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONin reply, said, that as far as he could judge, the grievances under which the coroners laboured were not sufficiently urgent to warrant a Bill being introduced to meet their case and their case alone. As the hon. Member was aware, lie had last Session introduced a Bill dealing with the position of county authorities, and, among others, with the position of the coroners. That Bill, however, made very little progress, and if he again proposed it he could scarcely see any prospect of its becoming law this Session. He felt bound to add that, although the coroners, as a body, were favourable to that measure, it did not, he believed, go nearly as far as they desired.