§ MR. COBBI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention, or the attention of the police, has been directed to the details given in the reports in the London and sporting papers of 31st May, of the prize fight for £2,000, between Jackson and Slavin on the previous day at the National Sporting Club; whether he is aware that the gloves which the combatants use in these fights are merely for the purpose of evading the law, and that in some respects the blows given by them are more severe and injurious than if they fought with bare fists, and whether he will give instructions to the police to put a stop to these fights, and to prosecute those who promote and attend them? Having regard to the answer given to the question which was asked yesterday on this subject, I shall only ask the second part of the question now.
§ MR. MATTHEWSI have nothing to add to the answer which I gave yesterday upon this subject, except that the police, as the Commissioner informs me, were not present on the occasion.
§ MR. COBBMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he is aware that Lord Lonsdale, who presided on this disgraceful occasion, was so ashamed of the whole proceeding, especially as to the number present, that he asked the representatives of the Press not to state the number of those who were present?
§ MR. SPEAKEROrder, order!