§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he will now instruct the Police to protect the public, more especially on Sunday mornings, from the great and increasing nuisance of itinerant newsvendors crying their goods in the streets?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI am as sensible as my hon. Friend of the 1437 nuisance to which his Question refers; but I am sorry to say the police have no power to put a stop to it.
§ MR. SEXTONasked whether the right hon. Gentleman thought that it was a nuisance to the considerable section of the public who wished to purchase newspapers?
§ MR. T. P. O'CONNORwished to know whether the right hon. Gentleman was aware that a large number of the working classes in London and other cities had no time except on Sundays to read newspapers?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTMy answer had no reference to the Sunday part of the question; that is a matter of Sunday trading which it is very difficult to deal with. I understood the Question to refer generally to the extraordinary noise. I wish newsvendors would find means of conducting their business in a more tranquil, and I may say more accurate, manner.