§ SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFFasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether any intelligence has been received from the Government of Gibraltar respecting arrests and imprisonments of different of Her Majesty's subjects, in that possession, made on the occasion of the installation of Dr. Canilla, as Vicar Apostolic, under the protection of the troops?
§ MR. COURTNEYA despatch was received to-day from Gibraltar which will be included among the Papers now with the printers. It appears that in clearing the Church of St. Mary the Crowned, which had been occupied early on the morning of the 2nd by persons who had commenced barricading it, 43 arrests were made, all, with one exception, by the civil constables. Twenty of these were tried the next morning by the magistrate, and one of them, who had assaulted the police inspector and been punished on the last occasion of disturbance, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. All the prisoners were defended by a barrister. Of the other persons arrested, some were bailed until the following day, when all the rest were tried. The same day, the 4th, notices of appeal were lodged in respect of 24 of the convicted prisoners, and, bail having been given, they were released pending the appeal.