§ MR. R. N. FOWLERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he will shortly announce the measures of relief which he is prepared to grant to the warders of Her Majesty's Convict Prisons, in response to the nearly nine hundred petitions which they have recently sent to the Home Office, praying for amelioration as to their scales of payment and hours of duty?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTThere is a Committee sitting on this question, and we shall be shortly able to come to a decision upon it.