Mr. T. Buncombebegged to put a question to the right hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department, relative to a statement of his upon a former evening, that out of 1,207 persons flogged in prisons, the number of adults was only seventy. He (Mr. Duncombe) found, on referring to the official returns, that the number of adults was 418, leaving 789 juvenile offenders. He wished to know whether his statement were correct.
§ Sir James Grahamsaid, it was true, that in 1841 there were 418 persons subjected to corporal punishment, but 348 were so punished according to sentences of courts of justice, and seventy received punishment for breach of prison discipline, either under sentence of magistrate, or by the act of the gaoler, confirmed by the magistrate. What he wished to convey was, that out of 70,000 persons confined only seventy, or one in a thousand, received corporal punishment for breaches of prison discipline.