§ LORD JOHN MANNERSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether any steps have been taken to suppress an exhibition called the Human Serpent, to which his attention was called on the 12th June by the Reverend Edward Lyttel?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, he inquired into the case at 522 the time; but the circumstances did not seem to bring it within the Act of 1879; and, therefore, it was impossible for him to interfere.