§ MR. MORRISONsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, If George Edward Gurney, who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, on June 11th, of attempting to obtain a licence to sell spirits by offering a bribe to the Chairman of the Kensington Division of Magistrates, is in receipt of any pension from the Government; and, whether it is the intention of the Commissioners of Excise to continue his present licence to sell beer by retail?
§ MR. HUNTsaid, in reply, that the man Gurney, who had been a police officer, was pensioned in 1848, but his pension was liable to be forfeited on his conviction for any indictable offence. The attention of the Home Secretary should be called to 426 the circumstances of the case, and he would exercise his discretion with regard to it. With regard to the other part of the question he had to say that it was not in the power of the Commissioners of Excise under the present state of the law, to decline to renew his beer licence in case Gurney obtained the statutory certificate from the overseers.