§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that William Henry Cheesewright was committed for trial to the Essex Quarter Sessions on April 4th, as an incorrigible rogue and vagabond, and that the Bench directed him to be kept to hard labour in the interval; 76 and will he say under what statute the Bench has powers to direct prisoners on remand to be put to hard labour.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe hon. Member hag been misinformed. William Henry Cheesewright has not been committed for trial—he was convicted by the magistrate of being an incorrigible rogue, and committed to Quarter Sessions not for trial, but for sentence. He was ordered while waiting sentence to be kept to hard labour. This is the ordinary procedure for dealing with incorrigible rogues under Sections 5 and 10 of the Vagrancy Act.