§ Mr. TREVELYANasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Mr. Chandler has been sentenced, on 8th November at Exeter, to two months' imprisonment with hard labour for distributing more than a year ago some copies of a pamphlet by Mr. Arnold Lupton, " What we are fighting for," and that as soon as he learnt that Mr. Lupton was being charged for publishing the pamphlet he destroyed all the undistributed pamphlets, even prior to their being condemned; and whether, seeing that Mr. Lupton, the writer and publisher of the leaflet, only received a fine as his sentence, he will consider the mitigation of the sentence of two months' hard labour on a man who only distributed his leaflet?
§ Sir G. CAVEI had heard nothing of this conviction, but I am making inquiry.