§ MR. CHAMBERLAINasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 2052 Whether his attention has been called to the inquiry into a municipal election at Carlisle, commenced on the 26th of March last, and to the Report of the Commissioner to the effect that numerous persons, including an alderman and a councillor of the borough and a guardian of the poor, had been guilty of corrupt practices within the meaning of "The Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872;" and, whether it is his intention to direct a prosecution of the persons named in the Commissioner's Report; and, if not, why not?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSin reply, said, that all the Papers had been laid before the Law Officers of the Crown, and he had not yet received a Report from them concerning the matter.