§ MR. HARDCASTLEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether there is any truth in the statement which appears in the "Standard" of that morning, to the effect that a printed draft of the Government measure for regulating the trade of Licensed Victuallers had, by accident, got abroad; and, whether the account given by that paper of the provisions of that measure has any foundation in fact?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTSir, of late years, a great many printed drafts of a great many subjects have, by accident, got abroad; but I can confidently state that no printed draft of a Government measure for regulating the trade of Licensed Victuallers has got abroad, and for this reason—that there never has been such a draft, and, therefore, it never has been printed.