§ MR. BIGGARasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been drawn to the case of a young man named Martin Nash, who was sentenced on Monday last to fourteen days, by the Mayor of Penzance, for no apparent reason but the absence of cash; whether he will order the release of the prisoner from remainder of his punishment; has his attention been drawn to a decision last week by same magistrate, in which the prisoner presented a charged six-chamber revolver at a Mr. Heran, and received no punishment whatever, but was bound over to keep the peace; and, whether ho will inquire into the conduct of the Mayor of Penzance?
§ MR. HIBBERT, in reply, said, that the case of Martin Nash appeared on inquiry to be an ordinary case of vagrancy. In the second case, the inquiry showed that the prisoner did not make a serious attempt on the life of the magistrate. He was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months in two sureties of £250 each. Neither of these cases called for the interference of the Home Secretary.