If the /Ionise of Comnions nllotild yet have an opportunity
to discuss precedents for inquiriess-though we !mist say that we know of no precedent for such an accusation of untruth- fulness as General Maurice' has brought against the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer—we.- Jersey that the House will find much mote satieraction in the precedent of the Roebuck inquiry than in, say, the. Parnell Corrittiberlint. In lab& Palmersten appointed the Roebuck Parliamentary Conintittee to inquire' into. the mismanagement of the Crimean War by the. Aberdeen Administration. Whatever be thought of the- curious Invective of Roebuck himself, everybody will agreetliat the findings'. of the - Corrimittee satisfied the public mind much more than did the Parnell Commission. It will be renierabered that in -1888 the Government refrisedaRpetial Committee of the House of Cominorra which Parnell demanded, • and 'created 'a Special Commission presided. over by three 'Judges.
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