§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the Inland Revenue authorities, after being apprised that the Crystal Palace Directors were disqualified by special Act of Parliament from selling distilled spirits in the palace and grounds, have granted to them a licence for that purpose; and, if this be the case, whether he intends to take any steps for the vindication of the Law?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply said, that he had inquired into the subject 1581 and found that the licence had been obtained by the directors in the usual manner—namely, on the certificate of the licensing justices. The Inland Board of Revenue had been advised that the certificate was imperative upon them, and that they had no power to interfere with the discretion of the licensing justices in granting it.