§ MR. WATKINsaid, he wished to ask Mr. Attorney General, If his attention has been called to a recent case in the Common Pleas, "Corbett v. Dallas," in which an action (against the late Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company) is brought by a person found guilty in 1862–3, of the crime of procuring abortion, by the regular tribunals of Rupert's Land, sentenced to six month's imprisonment, afterwards forcibly rescued from prison and now at large in this country; and, whether refugees from justice from "Rupert's Land" can exercise, under the present state of the Laws, a right of asylum in England or are liable to re-arrest?
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsaid, in reply, that he had received no information at all upon the subject. With reference to the more general part of the hon. Member's Question the colony referred to stood in exactly the same position to England as any other British Colony, and any man escaping from it to this country could be arrested by means of a proper warrant issued by the local authorities.