The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-24 00:00:00

TESTS AT OXFORD.

Lord R. CECIL said when the motion for the second
reading of the bill for the abolition of tests at Oxford was
before the house he should move that it be read a second
time that day six months.
FLOGGING IN WORKHOUSES.

Mr. SCULLY asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether his attention had been called to
certain returns lately presented to this house, showing
that 1,138 persons (not being soldiers or sailors) of vari-
ous ages, from six to sixty-three, have been recently
flogged in England and Wales, receiving from 50 to GO
lashes, in many instances, by the order of only ono magis-
trate, and frequently for very petty offences or acts of mis-
conduct.

Sir G. GREY said he had seen the return, but it ex-
tended over a series of years. The punishment was in-
flicted under the Juvenile Offenders Act, 11th Vic., chap.
82. There had been punishment inflicted by one magis-
trate, but then he was a stipendiary. He believed it was
usual for two magistrates to sign the order.
MISCONDUCT IN PRISONS.

Mr. HA DFIELD asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether any report was made to Go-
vernment of all the cases of flogging in prisons, by order
of magistrates, for offences committed out of prison, and
also for misconduct in prison, without publicity beinggiven
of the offences charged, the evidence in support of the
charges, the punishment ordered, the ages of the offenders,
the number of lashes inflicted in each case, and other par-
ticulars ; and, if no such report was made, whether it was
his intention to adopt measures to put an end to secret
flogging in prisons without a public trial.
Sir G. GREY said no record of punishment inflicted on
females was kept, but with regard to males a very exact
one was kept. It was open to the prison inspectors, and
in the event of any irregularity it was his duty to make a
report to the proper quarter.
Mr. FOSTER asked particularly with respect to the
ease of punishment inflicted on a child six years old. It
had only, he believed, been inflicted as late as June last.
Sir G. GREY said ho would make inquiries, and lay
the whole of the particulars on the table of the house,

CHURCH AT NAZARETH. _...v.
Mr. HANBURY asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether instructions had been given to her
Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople to apply for
11.firMall, without which the Rev. Mr. Zellar is unable to
build a church at Nazareth.

Mr. LAYARD said instructions had been sent out, and
a firman, he believed, had been applied for, but no answer
to the application had yet been received.

RIVER THAMES.

Mr. D. DAMER asked the President of the Board of
Trade whether he was aware that at a sho- t distance be-
low Hampton Court Palace there was last summer hardly
four feet of water in the River Thames at the deepest part,
and that when the waterworks near Kingston were pump-
ing the river ceased to Sow over the weir at Teddington
during the period of such pumping ; whether any of the
sewage of Kingston flows ultimately into the Thames
above Teddington weir ; and whether ho was aware that
there were three water companies alone at Hampton, each
of which draw off 12 millions of gallons daily, and have
power to increase the amount to 60 millions, when the in-
creased population shall require it.
Mr. W. COWPER said it was true that on a particular
day there was not more than four feet of water at the part
mentioned, but it was a very shallow part of the river,
and the river had never ceased to flow over the weirs
at T i
Teddington. With respect to the sewage at Kingston,
falling the Thames, steps had been taken in the Court
of Chancery
to prevent a continuation of it ; and as to the
water
did nrote°Zanies, persons were appointed to see that they
more water than they wore empowered to do
by Act of Parliament.
THE WELLINGTON MEMORIAL.
Sir M. FARQUILIA asked the Chief Commissioner of

Works what progress, if any, had been made towards the
completion of the memorial to the late Duke of Wellington
in St. Paul's Cathedral ?

Mr. W. COWPER said Mr. Stevens had not yet com-
pleted his model, and he had frequently remonstrated-with
him at the delay. He could not state when the model
would be ready.