§ MR. F. O'CONNORbegged to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department, without intending to cast the slightest censure 106 upon the parties concerned, but merely to ascertain a fact which it was desirable should be known, namely, whether there was to be one law for the rich, and another for the poor—whether it was the intention of the Government to take any proceedings against the parties who had mot at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, on last Tuesday week? He had himself been at meetings, for attendance at which men had been prosecuted, where no such violent language had been used as had been spoken at the meeting to which he was alluding. [Laughter, and "Oh, oh!"] He did not think the question was one which ought to be met by a laugh in that House.
§ SIR G. GREYwas understood to decline giving any answer to the question.