§ MR. CONYBEAREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 425 Whether his attention has been drawn to the case tried by Mr. Mansfield, at the Marlborough Street Police Court, of a man who quarrelled with his mistress's five months old baby and brutally beat it on the arm, who excused himself on the ground that he did it in a fit of temper, and was ordered to find security in the sum of five pounds to be of good behaviour for the next three months; and, whether he will take any and what steps in order to protect innocent infants for the future?
§ THE SECBETAEY OF STATE (Sir R. ASSHETON CROSS), in reply, said, he had learnt, with regard to the case referred to. that no sensible injury was inflicted on the child. Although the Secretary of State had power to advise the Sovereign to remit a sentence, he had no power to interfere in order to make the punishment heavier.