§ LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISHasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the statement of Mr. Hawley, who was committed to prison with hard labour for offences under the Vaccination Acts, as to the treatment which he underwent in the Wakefield House of Correction; and, whether he has ascertained if that statement is substantially correct; and, if so, whether such treatment is in accordance with the Rules issued under the Prisons Act, 1877?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he understood that notice of legal proceedings had been given both against the Justices and the Governor of the prison, and therefore it would be very difficult for him to say anything now either as to the commitment or the treatment by the Governor. It was not the case of an order to pay money, but a conviction for an offence, and therefore Mr. Hawley was a criminal prisoner, and did not come within the meaning of the Act of 1877. He was not put to hard labour.