§ MR. BIGGARasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether Peter M'Knight was convicted of manslaughter at Belfast Summer Assizes in 1877, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude; whether he was discharged at the end of about four years, but taken prisoner in Liverpool on 21st June 1881, and lodged in a lunatic asylum, at Whittingham, Preston; if so, what were the grounds for his being sent to the asylum; and, what are the reasons for his present detention?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, he had inquired into the matter, and had received a Report from the medical officer that the man was quite unfit to be at large.