The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-23 00:00:00

POOR RATES.

Mr. lIENLEY moved for a return as respects the year
ended at Lady-day, 1864, of the following particulars,
namely, the gross estimated rental of property rated to the
poor rate in each parish in England and Wales ; the
rateable value of the same property ; the amount expended
during the year for the relief of the poor; and the rate in
the pound of such expenditure on the gross estimated rental
and the rateable value respectively, with the averages of
each union (in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No.
491, of session 1861.)—Ordered.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
Mr. TAYLOR moved for an address for return of all
places wherein the Baths and Washouses Acts have been
adopted, with the date of such adoption, and the expense
incurred in the execution thereof, and the total amount
raised from or on security of rates on account thereof.—
Ordered.

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 one 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. HADFIELD 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
case 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 he would make inquiries, and lay
the whole of the particulars on the table of the house.
CHURCH AT NAZARETH.
Mr. HANBURY asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether instructions had been given to her
Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople to apply for
a firma; 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 flow 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 he 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 Teddington. With respect to the sewage at Kingston,
falling into the Thames, steps had been taken in the Court
of Chancery to prevent a continuation of it ; and as to the
water companies, persons were appointed to see that they
did not take more water than they were empowered to do
by Act of Parliament.
THE WELLINGTON MEMORIAL.
Sir M. FARQUHAR asked the Chief Commissioner of
Works what progress, if any, had been made towards tho
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.