MR. WILSONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the employment of young children at public entertainments in a manner dangerous to their lives or otherwise; and if he will consider the advisability of making such regulations as will lessen the risk or prohibit these performances?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, his attention had been called to the subject. The invariable practice had been in the first instance to send a warning to the parties concerned that they would be held responsible for any damage that might occur. That warning had been almost always attended to. No complaints relating to this subject 1612 had been brought under the notice of the Home Office of late; but if his hon. Friend would bring under his notice any case he would undertake that a proper warning should be sent to the parties.
MR. WILSONsaid, he understood that a child engaged in connection with a Chinese troupe at Stoke-upon-Trent had been injured.