§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state how many threatening letters were brought to the notice of the police in England during the past twelve months; and whether he can explain why the Criminal Statistics for England take no cognisance of this offence.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASI have no information of the number of threatening letters brought to the notice of the police. When they constitute a criminal offence they are entered under the appropriate head in the English Criminal Statistics, according to the nature of the offence, which depends on the nature of the threat.
§ MR. MACVEAGHWhat is the difference between a threatening letter in England and one in Ireland? In the latter country you class them all as outrages.
§ MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! That does not rise out of the Question.