§ MR. BATESasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the decision of the magistrate of the Thames Police Court on Thursday in the case of the master of the ship "Locksley Hall," when the master was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment for putting a seaman in irons for mutiny, the captain having asked him repeatedly to do his duty, and he having persistently refused to do so; and, also the decision in the cross action against the seaman for refusing to work, when the magistrate convicted the seaman of the offences charged against him, and sentenced him to one day's imprisonment?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he had not had his attention called to this matter, until he received the pri- 1838 vate Notice of it from his hon. Friend. Of course, after that Notice, he would make inquiry.