§ MR. MORGAN LLOYDasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will inquire whether it be true that, on the third instant, one Albert Jones, aged eight years, was committed to Montgomery Gaol by two of the Welshpool Borough Justices, to be kept on remand until that day, on a charge of stealing twenty-four shillings—bail being refused; whether, as stated by the boy's mother to one of the Visiting Justices, she was, on the 10th instant, requested to induce her husband to vote for the Conservative candidate at the now pending election, and declined to do so because her boy was kept in prison; and, whether, on the following day, the boy was released by an order signed by one of the committing magistrates on the express stipulation that the boy's father would vote for the Conservative candidate?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSI have no information on this subject, and I do not believe a word of it. Till I receive some positive assurance on which I can rely as a foundation for the fact, I certainly shall not feel it my duty to interfere.
§ MR. MORGAN LLOYDsaid, he would show the right hon. Gentleman a letter from one of the Visiting Justices which would bear out the facts indicated in his Question.