§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE (for Sir EDWARD WATKIN), asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he is now prepared to give an answer to the Question put to him by the hon. Member for Southwark (Colonel Beresford) in reference to the Order of the Lord Chamberlain, whereby the public were to be excluded from free access to the Houses of Parliament?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that he had been in communication with the Lord Great Chamberlain upon the subject of the recent Police Order, and he was sure that the object of the noble Lord had been entirely misunderstood. The Lord Great Chamberlain's sole object was to take care that there should be a sufficient safeguard with reference to visitors, and to give ample facilities for every person to see the House who was entitled to do so he hoped that that night arrangements would be concluded which would be satisfactory both to the officers of the House and to the public at large