§ MR. TREMAYNEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government to institute during the present year an inquiry into the Unreformed Corporations in England; and, if so, whether he will specify the nature of the inquiry which will be made?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that in accordance with what fell from him during the recent debate on this subject, it was the intention of the Government to advise Her Majesty to appoint a Royal Commission, composed of persons of great experience, to inquire especially into the criminal jurisdiction, and also into the revenues of unreformed corporations.