§ MR. THORNEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the action of the police in preventing Councillor O'Brien from entering the Chiswick Council Chamber on Thursday, 18th April; and whether, seeing that the Chairman of the Council obtained the services of the police to prevent a councillor attending to his duties, he proposes to take any action in the matter.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE, Leeds, W.)The police were warned to be in the vicinity of the Chiswick Council Chamber on the 18th instant, as it had been intimated to them that a disturbance was feared; but they took no action to prevent Councillor O'Brien from entering the Council Chamber, nor did they in any way assist in his removal.