§ MR. BURNIE (Swansea, Town)I beg to defer the following question in order that further investigation may be made, and I hope that investigation will be strict and careful:—To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with respect to the arrest of three men (William Howell, William Bird, and Robert Burns), in Albemarle Street on Friday, 17th March; their being marched through the streets to Vine Street Police Station by three policemen and there charged with obstructing the footpath; then marched to Marlborough Street Police Court, where the Magistrate dismissed them without any fine; was it legal to so arrest the men; is he aware that one of them (at least) was in the road when arrested; had the fact that they were carrying boards headed "Tailors' Strike" anything to do with the arrest; was there any ground for the statement made by one of the men before the Magistrate that the arrest was prompted by some tailoring establishment in the locality; and can he state how long since were any sandwich-board men previously so arrested in that locality for obstructing the footpath, and what boards were they carrying?