§ MR. CALLANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to a semi-editorial in the "Weekly Dispatch" of Sunday, February 12th, inciting the people of Northampton not to pay taxes lawfully due by them "until their representation, of which they have been illegally deprived, was restored to them;" and, whether he will see that the necessary steps be taken forthwith to make amenable to justice the party responsible for this recommendation? The real point of his Question had been carefully eliminated by the obliterating pencil of the Clerk at the Table.
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI am sorry I am obliged to confess that I did not see the article in question. I have a good deal to do, and I have not time to read all such publications. I have no reason to believe that there is any combination to prevent the taxes being collected, and, therefore, I think there is no necessity to take any action.
§ MR. CALLANsaid, that in consequence of the unsatisfactory answer he had just received, he would give Notice that he would furnish the right hon. and learned Gentleman with the article in question, and would then ask his opinion upon it.