§ MR. HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if he has received an application, supported by the leading judicial authorities in London, from the St. Giles's Christian Mission to Discharged Prisoners for the grant of an old ship as a temporary home for the considerable number of first offenders successfully remitted by the Metropolitan magistrates to the care of the Mission, instead of to prison during a probationary period; and if it will be possible for him to accede to the request?
§ LORD G. HAMILTONThe Admiralty received an application to this effect from the Secretary of the St. Giles's Christian Mission in August, 1889, but, with every wish to assist in furthering the good work of this Society, they were obliged to give a refusal, having no vessel suitable or available for the purpose.