§ MR. WALDEGRAVE LESLIEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his refusal to comply with the Prayer of a Petition from certain parties in Aberdeen on behalf of Margaret Smith or Swanson, who, in April, 1864, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude for a first offence, and that a case of theft, to which she pleaded guilty—was based on information received from the presiding Judge or other authorities in Scotland; and, if so, whether he will lay upon the table of the House Copies of the Memorial, reply, and all other relative papers?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, in reply, that he had declined to comply with the request of the memorial in question that the sentence might be mitigated; but he had sent the memorial to the Judge, and he had not yet received the Judge's answer.