§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been drawn to the very considerable number of small newspapers which are published in London and various English towns for the purpose of promoting a system of swindling under the guise of betting, and to the fact that the advertisement clauses of the Betting Acts are systematically evaded in these as well as in some more regular sporting papers, Metropolitan and Provincial; and, whether the Home Office will undertake the prosecution of some of these offenders, or if the Government has it in contemplation to introduce a measure for the establishment of public prosecutors?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, his attention had not been called to the small newspapers to which the hon. Member referred; but, on the Report of the Chief Commissioner of Police, a prosecution was undertaken in February last by the Treasury Solicitor, for the purpose of an example to future offenders.