§ MR. E. H. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has released a man named Phelps, late a private soldier of the Wiltshire regiment, who, on the 19th November last, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for highway robbery in Guernsey; if so, will he explain to the House upon what grounds, and what are the conditions of his release?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE-RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolThe sentence has been remitted by Her Majesty on my recommendation, the facts which came to light subsequently to the trial throwing such doubt on the propriety of the conviction as to justify me in taking this course. The release is unconditional.