MR. POWELL - WILLIAMS (Birmingham, S.)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has any objection to lay upon the Table of the House, before the date to be fixed for Committee on the Local Government Bill, a Return, showing the number of sentences exceeding six months' hard labour passed by County Courts of Quarter Sessions in England and Wales during the year ended 31st December, 1887, distinguishing between sentences of imprisonment and of penal servitude, and classifying the sentences of penal servitude according to their duration?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. STUART-WORTLEY) (Sheffield, Hallam)(who replied) said: I shall be happy to grant the Return asked for; but it will take some little time to prepare, and I cannot promise it by any exact data.