HC Deb 15 August 1881 vol 264 c1914
MR. MACFARLANE

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will cause to be prepared and lay upon the Table, early next Session, a Return, showing, for the years 1880 and 1881, the number and description of assaults with violence in England and Wales, and the punishment awarded in each case?

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT

, in reply, said, he thought the hon. Member would find what he wanted in the judicial statistics, where assaults were classified.