§ MR. ST. AUBYNasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he is aware that there is a large triangular-shaped piece of land lying waste between the lines of the West London and District Railways, bounded on the west by the West London Railway, and the other two sides by the back of Philbeach Gardens and Eardley Crescent, terminating at West Brompton Railway Station, on which games and many kinds of noisy nuisances take place every Sunday; and, whether, inasmuch as the land is the property of the District Railway Company, and not under police control, he will take steps to ensure the decent observance of the Sabbath, and the comfort of the people living in the immediate neighbourhood?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, this seemed to be a piece of private ground; and, of course, it was impossible to interfere with private owners. He had inquired of the police, and from what he had heard he did not think there was anything seriously amiss at the place in question. Probably it was the 1128 fact that children played there, and that they did make a noise; but he had not the power—and he was not sure that he had the wish—to deprive the children of a playground which fortune might have thrown in their way.