MAJOR STUART KNOXSir, as the hon. Member for Birmingham (Mr. Bright) thought fit last night to misrepresent what I stated on the subject of the treatment of Fenian prisoners, I have given private notice to the noble Lord the Chief Secretary for Ireland that I will ask him, Whether prisoners arrested under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act in Ireland have not always been treated in the same way as untried prisoners and insolvent debtors?
LORD NAASThe observation of the hon. and gallant Member is strictly true. The rule is that the prisoners apprehended under the Lord Lieutenant's warrant, no matter in what gaol they may be, are treated in regard to food, exercise, and other matters precisely in the same way as untried prisoners or persons imprisoned for debt.