§ MR. MONKasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the case of Samuel George Merrett, who was convicted at Gloucester in April 1876, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for a crime which it has been proved he never committed, and who has consequently, on the recommendation of the right hon. Gentleman, received a free pardon from Her Majesty, is one which he can fairly recommend to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for some compensation to Merrett in respect of his twelve months' wrongful punishment?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, that the case had been sufficiently met by a sum of money and some other assistance having been given to the man.