§ MR. J. G. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his attention has been called to the 17th Annual Report of the Prison Commissioners for Scotland, in which it is shown that of the 28 female convicts still in custody many of them are old women, more fit for treatment in a poorhouse than in an institution for inflicting penal servitude; and, whether he will consider the desirability of giving effect to the recommendations of the Commissioners?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATEThe question is founded on a misapprehension. No recommendation is made by the Prison Commissioners in the paragraph referred to, which contains nothing more than a simple statement of fact and opinion.