§ LORD R. CECIL (Marylebone, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the London police are prosecuting inquiries into the antecedents of Madame d'Angely through the French police; and, if so, by whose orders such inquiries are being made and 1122 for what purpose they are being carried out.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Inquiries have been made and are being made by the Commissioner of Police, acting with my authority, with a view to laying the results before the Royal Commission. Grave charges have been brought against the police, and the police are entitled, in my opinion, to take any fair and lawful measures which may be necessary to make good their defence.