§ MR. E. H. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the sentence of three years' penal servitude passed upon Alfred Northbrook Rose, who at the Lewes Assizes on the 14th instant was convicted of stealing books from a friend; whether there are any, and, if so, what, previous convictions recorded against this man; and, if he will consider the advisability of recommending the mitigation of this sentence?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTMy attention has been called to this case, but I have no information with regard to it, or to the antecedents of the prisoner, beyond what is contained in the newspaper reports. Any facts that may be brought to my notice will, as in other cases, be carefully considered by me; but at present I see no sufficient ground for interference.