§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, inasmuch as by the Act 8 and 9 Vic. c. 74, the Act now in force for suppression of advertisements of lotteries, action for recovery of penalties is confined to the Law Officers of the Crown and certain other officials; and, that notwithstanding frequent in formations with respect to 135 such lotteries actually going on, the Law Officers have not taken action or allowed others to do it in their names, If he will arrange that in future the same course that was taken with the projected Bank Lotteries will be taken with all others?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSIt appears that this Question relates to the subject of advertising the holding of lotteries, and not to the lotteries themselves. With regard to advertising, any person so doing renders himself liable to penalties to be sued for by the Attorney General in the Court of Exchequer. In several cases I have given warnings to persons that they were liable to be proceeded against in that way, and I have handed over the papers to the Solicitor of the Treasury for him to deal with, and in such cases as, in my opinion, ought to be the subject of proceedings, I shall continue to do so. I do not feel bound to interfere generally in regard to these matters. So far as Scotland is concerned the matter is different. There parties offending are liable to prosecution both on indictment and summary conviction, and at the suit of any individual prosecutor.