§ 19. Mr. T. SMITH (for Mr. THORNE)asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is in a position to state whether Mr. John Mulholland, who is an 944 inmate of the Argyll and Bute district asylum at Lochgilphead, has yet been discharged from that institution as sane?
Sir A.LAMBERTWARDMr. Mulholland was liberated to his sister's care at Glasgow on the 23rd instant, having been granted 28 days' leave of absence. It has been arranged that his sister is to report to the medical superintendent of the asylum before expiry of the 28 days, and if Mr. Mulholland continues to keep well mentally he will then be formally discharged.