§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Lord Lyons will be instructed to take steps to prevent the deportation or execution of the ten or more Englishmen who are stated in the public journals to be at present prisoners at Satory until they have been publicly and legally tried?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, Lord Lyons has taken the greatest pains to ascertain what number of British subjects were among the prisoners at Satory. Fifteen only could be at first discovered; he has heard of three more since. Of the 15 he has reported the release of four. Two others of the number have been traced to Brest. Lord Lyons has instructed our Consuls at Brest and Cherbourg to ascertain whether any British subjects have been sent to those ports, and to endeavour to obtain the release of any against whom there is not sufficient evidence of being guilty of any serious offence. Lord Lyons hopes the other British prisoners will soon be released. Indeed, with the exception of a boy 12 years old, named William Lowe, arrested behind a barricade with a pistol in his hand, whom the French hesitate to release, many other boys equally young having been found in the Insurgent ranks, there is reason to believe that the greater part if not all the English prisoners at Satory have been released. Lord Lyons was assured some days ago that summary executions had ceased in Paris, and no one would now be punished except after a deliberate trial and sentence by court-martial. He had written and spoken to M. Thiers and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and had been positively informed that no one would be punished without trial.