Mr. LLOYD MORGANasked the Home Secretary whether, in the Returns presented to the House of sentences of corporal punishment inflicted upon prisoners between 1st January and 31st December, 1907 and 1908, respectively, the number of strokes ordered by the respective judges were in fact inflicted; whether there were any cases during the said period in which the whole or any part of the sentence was remitted or was not imposed; and, if so, whether he will give the number and state the details of such cases mentioned in the Return?
§ Mr. GLADSTONEThe number of strokes ordered by the judges was inflicted in each of the cases mentioned in the Returns. To prevent misunderstanding, I may point out that the Returns relate only to indictable offences, and do not include sentences of whipping under the Vagrancy Acts. Several sentences of whipping under the Vagrancy Acts were remitted in the years 1907 and 1908.