MR. J. COWENasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department a Question of which he had given him private Notice. There was a society called the Radical Club, which met in some house near King's Cross, and a lecture was now announced by Mr. James Beale—a gentleman well known to Liberal Members in that House—and another by the hon. Member for Cavan (Mr. Biggar); while a third one was to be delivered on the political state of Europe. He understood that those lectures had been stopped, and that the owner of the house had been threatened that his licence would be withheld from him if these lectures were continued. He wished to ask the right hon. Gentleman, If it was true that such an intimation had been sent to the owner of the house; and, if it was not true, would he state the reason why such an intimation had been made?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that the hon. Gentleman's Question was the first he had heard of the matter, he having been out of town; but he would make inquiry on the subject. He doubted very much whether the hon. Gentleman's information was correct.