§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to a case tried before Mr. Mansfield at the Liverpool Police Court on Monday last, in which a man named Mahony was convicted of having driven a four-pronged stable fork five or six times into the side of a donkey, the last time with such force that the prongs of the fork were so bent that it could not be withdrawn, and was, therefore, left in the animal's side all night; and, if the facts are correctly reported, he will express to the magistrate his condemnation of the sentence of three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, for such atrocious barbarity?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, he had already more than once, in answer to Questions, stated it was not within his province to review the gradation of sentences, and if he might be allowed to say so, he did not think it was a function the House could undertake with any great advantage.