MR. SULLIVANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the newspaper reports of certain observations and proceedings on the part of Mr. Lefroy, County Court Judge at Bridport, June Court; and, whether any inquiry into the truth of these grave circumstances has been ordered by the Lord Chancellor?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that he had not seen the observations in the newspapers with regard to Mr. Lefroy; but the Lord Chancellor told him that he had received a communication from some gentleman living in Dorset, containing newspaper cuttings reflecting on Mr. Lefroy, and asking his 1425 Lordship to hold an inquiry; but the Lord Chancellor, on consideration, had declined.