§ SIR WILLIAM FRASERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the circumstances of the murder, on the 9th of February, of George James, close to the Grosvenor Road Station, and within a few yards of the Chelsea Suspension Bridge; and, whether he will state if any and, if any, what steps have been taken by the Commissioners of Police to bring the murderer to justice? Also, when the Report of the Commission or Committee, appointed at the close of last Session, to inquire into the conduct of the Detective Police of the Metropolis, will be laid upon the Table of the House?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply to the first Question, said, his attention had been called to the matter, and he had received the depositions taken before the coroner. It would be unwise to make public the steps that were being taken in the matter. With regard to the second Question, he had received a Report, which, of course called attention to certain points which, in his opinion, deserved to be corrected. Some of these had been corrected already, and the rest were under the consideration of the Secretary of State; but it would be obviously unwise, until certain points had been corrected, that these matters should be published so that advantage could be taken of them.