§ MR. H. L. W. LAWSON (Gloucester, Cirencester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware of the grievance under which householders and other occupiers suffer in that they are exposed to the risk of having their goods dis- 768 trained upon for ground rent payable not by them but by the owner of the house; and, if so, whether he will consider the expediency of protecting them by law, as in the case of the rate levied for metropolitan water supply?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. H. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.This is one of the incidents of the present Law of Distress, and the hardships which it may involve are not confined to the cases referred to by my hon. Friend. The whole subject is well worthy of consideration, but I cannot undertake to deal with it by legislation.