§ MR. P. A. TAYLORasked the Postmaster General, Whether it is a fact that during the last week a large quantity of publications, including the following, viz.: a newspaper called the "National Reformer," three pamphlets written by Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, and a pamphlet entitled "No. 10 of the Freethinker's Text Book," written by Mrs. Besant, have been seized and detained at the General Post Office, under the Act 33 and 34 Vic. c. 79, s. 20, as "indecent or obscene;" if he is aware that these publications have been regularly sold without complaint or prosecution; and, whether he will lay upon the Table a Copy of the Regulations issued with the approval of the Treasury required by the Act?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERSI am informed that none of the publications specified in the Question of the hon. Gentleman have been detained at the General Post Office, and I cannot say that I know anything about the circumstances of the sale of these publications. Some copies of a publication entitled Fruits of Philosophy have been detained under the Act 33 & 34 Vict. c. 79, s. 20, as "indecent." Regulations were made under Section 20 with the approval of the Treasury. They are dated the 26th of September, 1870, and I shall be happy to lay a Copy on the Table of the House if the hon. Member moves for it.