§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in reference to his postponed reply to a Question on the 8th June, Whether he is yet in a position to state the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown as to the legality of certain betting advertisements to which his attention had been called, and whether that legality is to be tested in a Court of Law?
MR. BRUCEsaid, in reply, that the legality of certain betting advertisements to which his attention had been called had been submitted not to the Law Officers of the Crown, but to Mr. Poland, who had charge of some of these cases, and Mr. Poland was of opinion that some of the advertisements were illegal, while some escaped the operation of the law. Those cases which fell within the opera- 1340 tion of the law were now in the hands of the Solicitor to the Treasury and the police.