§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he is now aware that the Church Conservative Club, some time last month, issued a list of 103 prizes, varying in value from £15 to 2s. actually drawn in the lottery previously advertised by that Club; whether the numbers of the tickets drawn include one numbered 281,879; whether he has received any Report from the Director of Public Prosecutions, or from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or from the Chief Constable, as to any action taken in the matter; and, whether he will lay the Correspondence upon the table?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.), in reply, said, he had no specific information as to the facts contained in the first part of the Question; but he had that morning received a letter from the Chief Constable of Lancashire, stating that proceedings had been taken before the magistrates against the Church Conservative Club on a charge of drawing a lottery. He had already informed the House of the action taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The correspondence that had taken place contained confidential matter, and he must decline to place it on the Table.