HC Deb 20 August 1886 vol 308 c159
SIR WILLIAM CROSSMAN (Portsmouth)

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to institute any judicial inquiry, by means of a Royal Commission or otherwise, into the charges brought by Colonel Hope and others against the Ordnance Department?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)

asked that the Question might be postponed till Monday.