CAPTAIN FABERI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of daily police court charges for drunkenness in Peckham during the ten days previous to the late election at that place?
§ MR. GLADSTONEDuring the period referred to there were in all ten cases. There was the same number of cases at Peckham during the corresponding period of the year 1907.
§ MR. COLLINS (Lambeth, Kennington)May I ask if the Home Secretary will endeavour to procure a return showing how many barrels of beer and how many gallons of spirits were consumed at Peckham during those ten days?
§ MR. T. L. CORBETT (Down, N.)Having regard to the reckless charges made by His Majesty's Ministers and others in regard to this election—
§ *MR. SPEAKEROrder, order. That is a matter for argument—on the platform.
§ MR. PIKE PEASE (Darlington)How many of the persons arrested were Peckham residents, and how many came from other parts of London?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI cannot say.