§ MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON (Durham, Barnard Castle)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the prosecution of a sub-postmaster in connection with certain betting swindles involving a firm carrying on its business in London and Flushing; whether the offices in the United Kingdom of such businesses in which money for betting is received at the foreign addresses have boon declared to be betting houses under the Act of 1853; and if he proposes to take any stops to suppress such illegal businesses in this country.
§ MR. GLADSTONEMy attention has not been called to the case of the sub-postmaster referred to, but in the recent case of one Robert Burrell it was held, under the Act of 1853, that though the money was received by his clerk at Flushing and thence remitted to Burrell's Bank at Plaistow, the business was transacted at 738, Barking Road, which was accordingly held to be a betting house. This decision is now being appealed against.