§ MR. MACDONALDI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will inquire into the circumstances in which a sentence of seven years' penal servitude was passed at Stirling two weeks ago on Mary Dymock for throwing her illegitimate child into a river, she being at the time exhausted from a long night walk, and almost desperate and starving; and whether, if the circumstances justify it, he will advise a reduction of the sentence?
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Sir G. TREVELYAN,) Glasgow, BridgetonThis question should have been addressed to me. I will give any Petition presented to mo on behalf of the person referred to the most anxious consideration. I am sure the hon. Member will see I cannot say more than that.