§ MR. CAINEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he is aware that Salvation Army riots have again broken out at Salisbury, and that, on Wednesday last, a crowd of more than a thousand persons surrounded the Army and assailed them with rotten eggs, bags of flour, fireworks, and other missiles, to the serious injury of many; if it is true that the Police did not interfere, and that the magistrates of Salisbury refuse to protect the Army assembled in the streets of that town; and, if he has yet recalled the circular issued by the Home Office to the magistrates throughout the Country on the subject of the Salvation Army, and issued fresh instructions in accordance with the recent decisions in the Court of Queen's Bench?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI have no information in this matter, Sir. The 448 magistrates of Salisbury have not consulted me upon it. I have not recalled a Circular, because I have not issued a Circular, and I do not propose to issue instructions in the matter. If the magistrates ever ask my advice, I shall advise them to follow the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench; and, as far as I can observe, that course seems to have been taken here—a strict policy of nonintervention.