§ MR. ERNEST FLOWERI desire to ask the Home Secretary a Question of which I have given him private notice. It is if he has decided whether Dr. Jameson and his colleagues are to be treated as first-class misdemeanants?
§ * SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYYes, Sir. After considering all the circumstances I have thought it my duty to advise the clemency of the Crown—[cheers]—and the sentence is commuted into one involving the treatment of the prisoners as first-class misdemeanants. [Renewed cheers.]