§ Colonel WEDGWO0Dasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to a sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour passed by the North London Police Court magistrate upon a labourer, Wright, for cutting off a tress of a girl's hair; whether he is aware that this offence is a well-known sexual aberration; and will he recommend that the sentence be remitted?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe answer to the first two parts of this question is in the affirmative. The answer to the third part is in the negative.