§ MR. RADCLIFFE COOKE (for Mr. BUTCHER,) YorkI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a report in The Times of 18th September, 1893, of a speech alleged to have been delivered on 17th September at a public meeting in Trafalgar Square by Mr. H. Samuels, with reference to the present crisis in the coal trade, from which it appears that Mr. Samuels in the course of his speech said that the miners had to follow the example of the Polish Jews, who had shot down Frick, Carnegie's manager at Pittsburg. If the 1781 workers did not go in a body and fight, let them do it individually with the torch, knife, and bomb; whether the Regulations respecting the use of Trafalgar Square for public meetings permit of such language being used; and whether the Government contemplate taking any action in the matter?
§ MR. H. GLADSTONE(who replied) said: The Regulations respecting the use of Trafalgar Square for meetings relate only to the time at which they should be held, the notices to be given of the holding of such meetings, and the particular places from which speeches are to be delivered, but do not refer to the subject-matter or contents of such speeches, which remain to be dealt with according to law. I am of opinion that any attempt to make the person who delivered the speech in question liable to criminal proceedings would be attributing an undue importance to his conduct.