MR. PHILIPPSI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that public meetings are held at Wishaw Cross every week of the year, even on Saturdays and Sundays, and that no meeting there was ever prohibited by the Magistrates till the anti-compensation meeting was advertised to be held; and whether he can now state under what Statute the Wishaw Magistrates have power to "prohibit" a meeting "either at the Cross, or on or adjacent to the public streets of the burghs"?
§ * MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSONI am not aware whether the statements in the first paragraph of the question are correct. I answered the whole of the last paragraph on Monday.