§ MR. LAWSON WALTON (Leeds, S.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General whether the Report of the Commissioner who heard the recent municipal election petition at Shrewsbury has been received by him; whether he will furnish Members with a copy of the same; and whether he will, in regard to the terms of the Report, consider the advisability of directing the persons mentioned therein as having been guilty of bribery to be prosecuted.
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir ROBERT FINLAY, Inverness Burghs)The Report has been received and will be laid on the Table. The Director of Public Prosecutions has been inquiring into the matter, and has instructed that in certain cases proceedings shall be instituted forthwith.
§ MR. LAWSON WALTON was understood to ask whether in regard to a charge of perjury arising out of these matters recently heard and dismissed by the local magistrates steps would be taken to submit a Bill to the Grand Jury.
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYThe circumstances of the prosecution have been considered, and I do not think I should be justified in sending a Bill to the Grand Jury.