MR. DICK-PEDDLEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been drawn to the case of James Bell, a miner, aged 17, who, having been charged on the 18th inst. before the Justice of Peace Court at Airdrie with stealing a turnip from a field, and having pleaded guilty, stating that he was out of work and led to commit the theft by hunger, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour; and, if so, whether it is intended to order the remission of the remainder of the sentence?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that he had considered the matter in consultation with the Lord Advocate, and the sentence to which the hon. Member referred would be remitted.