§ MR. LAWSONasked the Secretary for the Home Department, Whether he has made arrangements to delay the execution, fixed for next Wednesday morning, of Pelizzioni, the Italian convict, now under sentence of death for the murder committed at Saffron Hill?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYI have given no directions on the subject. A memorial with respect to the case generally has been presented to me by Italians, and it is now under the consideration of the Judges who tried the case. I have not yet received their report upon it.
§ MR. BRIGHTsaid, he wished to ask the right hon. Baronet whether he did not think the case was one which suggested his interference without regard to any memorial with respect to it.
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, the facts upon which the application for his interference was based were contained in the memorial which had been drawn up by certain Italian gentlemen and presented to him through the Italian Minister, and that he had taken the only course open to him, which was to refer it immediately to the Judges for their opinion.
§ MR. BRIGHTI should like to know whether the memorial was presented to the right hon. Gentleman before the date of the confession of the murder alleged to have been made by another Italian.
§ SIR GEORGE GREYI really think 210 it does not conduce to the administration of justice that such questions should be put. I am not aware that any other Italian has confessed that he committed the murder. The memorial was presented to me on Friday last.