MR. O'CONNOR POWERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in view of the resolution in favour of amnesty to political prisoners passed on the 13th instant by a largo majority of the Canadian Legislature, he intends to recommend Her Most Gracious Majesty to exercise Her royal clemency on behalf of persons confined for political offences in great Britain and Ireland?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, he presumed the Question referred to certain prisoners whose case had been brought under his notice last Session. He then stated that he did not recognize those men as being political prisoners, nor did he now see any more reason than at that time to interfere with the ordinary course of the law so far as they were concerned.