§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he can give a reference to any prison rule under which the letters and other trifling souvenirs given by Captain Colbert, of the Irish Volunteers, on the morning of his execution to a friend in prison for delivery to others were not allowed to be taken and delivered; also any rule under which the condemned men and their friends in prison were told by the soldiers in charge that the noise of shooting outside was that of soldiers practising for the executions; and, if these acts were not enforced by rule, can he say by whose order they were enforced?
§ Mr. TENNANTI am having inquiries made.