§ MR. MOONEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will state the number of crimes in England in the years 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, and the months of January and February 1907, under the following heads: murder, attempts to murder, threats or conspiracy to murder, manslaughter, felonious wounding, intimidation and molestation, unnatural offences, attempts to commit unnatural offences, indecency with males, indecent assault on females, defilement of girls under thirteen, defilement of girls under sixteen, setting fire to crops, killing and maiming cattle, arson, and malicious injury.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe figures for 1906 are not complete. There are no monthly Returns. The hon. Member will find the other figures he requires in Table XIX of the Annual Volumes of Criminal Statistics.
§ MR. MOONEYWhat is the reason for the difference of procedure in England and Ireland?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI cannot say. It is a matter of administration.