CAPTAIN WHITEsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is true, as reported in the "Freeman's Journal" and other Irish newspapers, that corporal punishment—namely, flogging—has been inflicted on the person of the convict O'Donovan Rossa within the last month; if so, for what offence; and was it inflicted with the sanction of the Home Secretary?
MR. BRUCESir, the Question has been put to me without notice, but I think I may answer with as much certainty as if I had received notice, that not only not within the last month, but at no period has corporal punishment ever been inflicted on the convict O'Donovan Rossa; nor do I believe that he ever received the slightest punishment beyond his ordinary imprisonment since September, 1868.