§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he would explain to the House by whose authority the police entered the office of a paper called the Commonweal, and took away the type; and what means the editor must adopt to regain possession of it?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS,) Birmingham, E.The type in question was seized by the police at the same time as Mr. Nicoll was arrested for the libel printed from it, as one of the implements used in committing the offence. Since the conviction of Nicoll various persons have claimed the type, the title to which appears doubtful; and Mr. Vaughan, the Police Magistrate, has issued a summons against the police, on the hearing of which the true owner will, no doubt, have the type restored to him. The police are anxious to get rid of it.