§ Mr. PICKERSGILLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was with his knowledge and sanction that convicts being conveyed from one prison to another were unnecessarily exposed to the public gaze; and whether he would cause such arrangements to be made as would prevent such exhibitions?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLNo, Sir. The hon. Gentleman knows quite well that I have given no sanction to the unnecessary exposure of convicts in transit to the public gaze. On the contrary, every convenient arrangement to prevent it is and will be made.
§ Mr. PICKERSGILLHas the right hon. Gentleman read the description given by a famous man of letters of the show which was made of him, when a convict, on the platform at Clapham Junction?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI have not studied his work; I do not know his name.
§ Mr. PICKERSGILLI will send it to the right hon. Gentleman.