§ SIR GEORGE BOWYERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, What are the intentions of the Government with regard to the Statute 21 George 3, c. 49, and whether the Government will introduce a Bill of indemnity as well as a Bill repealing or otherwise dealing with such Act; and, whether the Secretary of State for the Home Department or the Attorney General have the power to stay proceedings 1132 taken under the Act or otherwise prevent the recovery of penalties, and whether that power will be exercised accordingly?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that the Brighton Aquarium Company had consented to open the institution on Sundays simply as a scientific institution, though money would be received at the doors. The question to which the hon. Baronet referred would be tried immediately before a Court of Justice, and, according to the judgment pronounced, the Government would take such action as they might deem right. He did not think the case was one in which penalties ought to be inflicted, and so far as he had the power he should take care that they were not enforced.
§ SIR GEORGE BOWYERasked whether the Aquarium might be opened as a place of amusement?