§ MR. PATRICK A. M'HUGH (Leitrim, N)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if it is a fact that four British subjects, recently convicted of high treason in the Transvaal and sentenced to death, have been reprieved by President Kruger; can he state the terms on which the death sentences were commuted; and, can he inform the House if the present prison treatment of these four convicts is similar to that accorded to ordinary malefactors undergoing terms of imprisonment in the Transvaal?
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINFour gentlemen were condemned to death as stated in the Question, and I believe that three of them were British subjects. I have not yet learned what punishment is to be substituted for the death penalty. I have no official information as to their present treatment, but the newspapers report that they and the other 59 political prisoners enjoy certain indulgences. ["Hear, hear!"]