§ SIR HENRY TYLERasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether Dr. Edward A. Aveling and Mrs. Besant are still employed in connection with the Science and Art Department of the Government?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe Committee of the Science Classes held in the Hall of Science, Old Street, have again returned Dr. Aveling's name as one of their teachers. As he is qualified to teach according to the Rules of the Department, no exception has been taken to his employment. The Committee, who had also proposed to employ Mrs. Besant as a teacher, afterwards withdrew her name.
§ SIR HENRY TYLERgave Notice that he would, on Thursday, ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to a series of articles recently published in the "National Reformer," of which the Junior Member for Northampton and Mrs. Besant are the editors, under the heading of "The Christ of Dr. Aveling," and over the signature of W. J. Birch, and in particular to a passage in the "National Reformer" of March 5th, 1882; and, whether he will refer to the Public Prosecutor the question of preferring an indictment for blasphemy against the editors of the "National Reformer?" The hon. Member said, he would hand the extracts to the Clerk at the Table, as they were too horrible to read to the House.