§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will lay upon the Table a Return of the number of persons reasonably supposed to have been murdered in England, Scotland, and Ireland, for which no convictions have taken place, since the 1st January 1871?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTin reply, said, he had inquired into this matter, and he found that there were no materials from which such a Return as was asked could be made.