§ MR. PEASEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the case of James Thomas, who was brought up from gaol to the Royal Court at St. Helier's on a charge of having assaulted one of the warders, a charge for which he was afterwards punished, when it appeared that the prisoner had been kept in his cell two months without being allowed exercise for fear he should incite other men in confinement to rebel; and, whether he has any control of the Channel Island Prisons; and, if so, whether he proposes to take any notice of this case?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, his control over the Channel Islands prisons was very limited, nor did he know anything of the particular case mentioned in the Question; but he had communicated with the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, and if he had any power of putting matters straight he would do so.