The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-14 00:00:00

CONVICTION OF GIFSIDI IN CORNWALL

Sir G. GREY—I answered • question the other everting
which wail pat to me by the boo. member fee Northampbse-
shire relative to thel•Dt4llol, passed upon 1101110 Meeks is
Cromwell, who were alleged to have bees committed for
sleeping under • tent. Since then I have written to the
committing magistrate, requesting him to furnish me with
the minutes of evidence and a report of the rem. It tamed
out, as I expect•J, that they were committed nadir the
Vagrancy Act, and sot for say dream such as that of
sleeping undeT• tent. I have rewired • letter from the
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lioglotrate. which, S. justice to him, 1 desire to to nod the
Llama. It Iso kaolin :

" Lek ot Vicarage, Mar 12.—Having received thin ssors-
log your letter of the 10th instant, requesting lee to fursith
you with a full report of the case of the committal of the
sissies by me, I beg to communicate to you the following
particulars. At Bruth, some few days before the com-
mittal, one of them was apprehended by the police for
vagrancy, and was discharged on her promising to illl9o the
neighbourhood ; instead of doing which she was found the
following day at Cambortie, only three miles of,
telling tartness. On another day rubsequant. a sae
sod woman of the party were found sleeping toge-
ther under a waggoc which did not belong to them, and
again cautioned by the police. On the Saturday previous
to my committal the whole party ware found os the
estate of Trelissick, in the parish of St. Edit, where
they did a great deal of injury, breaking down tree, and
lighting fires, when the police swig cautioned them, sad
finding them there again on Monday, vpreheaded them and
broughtthem to me. They had pained through the wagers
part of the county, between Redruth and St. Win begging
and tellies fortunes. The superintendent of police had
gives particular directions to the polio, to watch them, as
there had bees many thefts committed is that part of the
county, sad this party of gigolos had been suspected of
being connected with them. When the party were brongbt
before me, I examined them individually and collectively,
and found that they had oo visible mesas of lataristonse,
and could giro no satisfactory motorist of thassiolvin. Madre
these circumstances, for tbo isfsty of the orsualy, I coast-
dared it in; duty to mamma them."
PERSONAL EXPLANATION.

Mr. LOW E remand mid—fir, I have to solicit for a few
moments the indulgence of the house once more, to mate
a short personal explanaticia, and 1 need that indulgence
very greatly, because I am quite aware that the case is one
of first impreeerne, and I may &ppm, though I hope
wrongly, to keeper too notch on the indulgence of the
house in what 1 am going to sty. (Hear, beer.) lost
treeing a document was produced of which I had no
notice—of which I Led no knowledge—end of
which it was impossible for me to give any
account satisfactory to the house, without searching
the records of the Privy Council-offici. Upon that docu-
ment a statement was brooded that, though what I had
said to the house on a former occasion was true ha intent, it
was absolutely false in fact. Now, I am not accustomed
to have the words " absolutely false " connected with any
statement of mine—(heer, hear)—even when coupled with
the explanation that my intent was to speak the truth
nor eau I regard it as a matter of ioditferenoe that it should
be cancelled in that way. I therefore throw myself upon
the indulgence of the hones to enable use to axplain what
that document really is, and to give them the result of the
researches I have wade respecting it. I know I ought, in
accordance with the rules of the house, to have rises
in my place at once, but I wee unable to do so.
There are two kids of inspectors' reports, the owe general,
which are made for the purpose of being submitted to par-
'lamest on the general state of the districts which the in-
I @nectars impact. It is is reference to these reports that the
minute of 1861 wesmade ; it is with reference to these report.
that the T*ooloo°ll°l the home of the 12th of April last was
passed ; it is with reference to these reports slam that the
explanation I offered on the 19th April was made ; and it is
with reference to these reportsthat the oncemisionhooved for
last night by her Majesty's government was appointed.
There is a second kind of report which is also made by the
inspectors, which may be celled • special or particular report.
It is the report of the inspector on each school that he
inspects. It is not intended to be laid Were parlivineet,
it is a departmental matter. (Rear.) It is mad* by the
impactor sad teueernitted to the adios of the Privy Council,
and •summary of that report is made and transmitted to
the school at the mine time that the grant it awarded.
When I said oe a former ocessiee that I gave Name in 1864
that so interlineatiou should take place in the reports of the
inspectors, I meant, and I am sanded I was understood by
the hove's& meaning, the reports which were intended to
be laid before parliament. (Rear, hear.) It was to them
that she whole diciasaioa led keen *slot ; it esuld only