§ MR. CARBUTTasked, Whether it was not the fact that the existing law for the protection of minors was sufficient if properly administered; and if the Home Secretary thought the sentence of seven weeks' imprisonment upon Lord St. Leonards was sufficient punishment for having committed an assault upon a servant?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI have often said that I have no authority over the magistrates, nor over the Recorder of the City of London. Whatever my opinion may be, I could not make the sentence greater.
§ MR. CARBUTTI wish to know whether it is not a fact that the noble Lord had been imprisoned during the whole of the last seven weeks?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTHow should I know?
§ MR. CARBUTTThen I beg to give Notice that I will ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman, Whether the noble Lord ought to have been imprisoned for seven weeks; and whether he had served the full time for which he was sentenced?