§ COLONEL NAGHTENasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has received any information at the Home Office tending to show that a great number of criminal offences are committed in some districts where large bodies of troops are stationed, resulting in convictions which throw heavy expenses upon the counties where such convictions take place; and, if so, whether, in order to prevent such offences and to diminish such expenses, he is prepared to recommend that additional police be provided in those localities at the cost of the Government?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, that he had not up to present moment received any complaints on the subject, but he had ordered inquiry to be made, and if he found such cases existing he would deal with them.