§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, a Question of which he had given private Notice, Whether he was aware that the police, in Marylebone, had distributed voting papers from house to house for the election taking place that day, together with a paper printed in large type with the words "Vote, No, and distinctly defeat and settle the question." Was this part of the duties allotted the police by the Chief Commissioner?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) Birmingham, E.), in reply, said, that he knew nothing of the facts put forward by the hon. Member. The hon. Member's Notice had only been placed in his hands as he entered the House. He, therefore, had had no time for inquiry. He had no knowledge of the imposition on the police of any such duty as the hon. Member had described.