§ COLONEL BARNEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, with a view of the prevention of crime in Railway carriages, he would approve of Railway Companies removing the upper portions of the partitions between compartments, as is now done in some of the Underground Railway carriages?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in reply, said, the Question might be properly addressed to the Board of Trade; but no Government Department had any right to interfere with the construction of railway carriages, and, therefore, their approval would not be required for such arrangements. It was entirely a question for the Railway Companies and the travelling public, and he might add that the proposed arrangements would not meet with universal approval.