The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at 5 o'clock.
Lord CHELMSFORD presented a petition from the
Corporation of Carlisle in favour of an amendment of the
law regulating the commencement of legal proceedings in
the three parts of the United Kingdom.
The LORD CHANCELLOR admitted the importance of
the subject, and agreed with his noble and learned friend
that same amendment was necessary, but there were great
difficulties in the matter ; but with the assistance of his
learned friend he did pot despair of surmounting them.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Land :llof fgage Bank of India bill was read a second
time.
CHIEF RENTS (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill passed through committee, and was reported
without amendment.
TURNPIKE ROADS BILL.
This bill was read a secod time.
SIR JOHN LAWRENCE'S SALARY BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Hull Docks—Marple, New Mills, and Hayfield Junction
Railway—and Southwark and Vauxhall Water.
The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (No. 2)
Bill) was read a second time.
LISBURN ELECTION AND BERWICK-ON-
T WEED ELECTION PETITIONS.
The select committee to consider these petitions were
appointed, and the first was ordered to sit_ at half-past II
o'clock to. morrow.
SALE OF LIQUORS PERMISSIVE BILL.
A very large number of petitions from different parts of
the country were presented in favour of this bill.

THE INVASION QF DENMARK.
Mr. D. GRIFFITH gave notice that on Monday next
he would move that, in the present opinion of the country,
as to the outrage committed by the invasion of Denmark,
it would be proper to suspend that portion of the law
which would prevent the Danes from being supplied with
ships from this country.
The ftailway Companies Powers Bill and the Railway
(Construction Facilities) Bill were, on she motion of Mr.
GIBBON, postponed until the 7th of April.
PRISON DIETARY.:
Mr. BUXTON asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether his attention had been drawn to a
statement recently male by Mr. E. Chadwick, before the
Society of Arts, that " taking 104 prism returns, which
enab'ed a comparison of the twenty gaols where the expense
and the quantity of the diet were the lowest, the twenty
where the expense and the quantity of the diet were the
highest, and the twenty where they were intermediate, the
results came out as follows :-
20 Lowest 20 Inter-
Prison mediate 20
Diets. Lints. Highest.
Ounces of solid food per week 188 213 228
Cost per head per week
Sick per cant 3 15 23i
Deaths per 1,1,00
and whether he would cause any inquiry to be made on the
subject ?
Sir G. GREY said he had not seen the statement re-
ferred to, and he could not say m what grounds it had
been founded, but the subject should be investigated.
RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.
Mr. BENTINCK asked the Under Secretary of State
for War, upon what grounds the prayer of a petition to the
War-office from four companies of Rifle Volunteers, viz.,
the 6th, 16th, 17th, and 23d, raised in the county of Nor-
folk, the petition praying that according to the War-office
regulations these tour companies should be formed Into a
separate administrative battalion, and having been pre-
sented to the War-office by the Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Norfolk was refused ?
The Marquis of HARTINGTON said that under the
present regulations battalions should be composed of six
companies.
SUB-INSPECTORS OF FACTORIES.
Lord J. MANNERS asked the Secretary of State for
the Home Department what steps, if any, had been taken
to comply with the requests contained in the memorial of
the sub-inspect ers of factories presented to him last year ?
Sir G. GREY said that the subject had been brought
under the consideration of the Government, and on a future
occasion he would make a statement on the subject.
CONCENTRATION OF THE COURTS OF
JUSTICE.
Mr. A. MILLS asked the First Commissioner cf
Works whether it was intended to introduce any
measure during the present session for the concentra-
ration of the courts of justice: And whether his atten-
tion had been called to the serious depreciation of property
on the site recommended by the Commissioners of 1869, in
consequence of the uncertainty which had prevailed during
the last three years as to the intentions of the Government
on the subject ?
Mr. CO WPER said that he was unable to give a full
explanation on the subject at present, but hoped shortly to
be able to satisfy the hon. member.
Mr. TRACEY asked the Secretary of the Admiralty
whether, having regard to the demand for lieutenants as
gunnery instructors having become so mucoh greater than
the supply, that during the last five years noofficer had been
allowed to remain in the school of gunnery long enough to
obtain a competent knowledge of the subject, it was the in-
tention of the Admiralty to hold out any inducements to
officers to qualify as instructors ?
Lord C. PAGE r said that at present he could not state
the intentions of the Admiralty, but he trusted he should
be able to do so on a future occasion.
Sir R. CLIFTON asked the Under Secretary of State
for War, by whose authority an order has been made in the
storekeeper's department of the 11,yal Military Clothing
Depot at Pimlico, by which the pensioner clerks, non-
commissioned officers, are required to apply for a pass for
the police on accidentally lesvihg the building, the same
order not existing in the other branches of the establish-
ment
?
The Marquis of HARTINGTON said the clerks were
not required to apply for passes, and they
.had only to give
their names to the porter's clerk in passing through the
building.
THE RECENT CASES OF ALLEGED STAR-