§ MR. BRADLAUGHI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the police have recently received instructions from the Post Office Authorities to make inquiries and report as to meetings of Post Office employés about to be held; whether such instructions have been issued to the police generally, or in what districts; and if he will state to the House why the police have in this respect in any case been substituted for, or added to, the Local Postmaster?
§ *MR. RAIKESNo, Sir; no such instructions have been given either generally or in particular localities.
§ MR. BRADLAUGHThen the inquiries which have been made in the County of Bucks by the county police have been made without the instructions of the right hon. Gentleman?
§ *MR. RAIKESCertainly, Sir; I have given no instructions.