The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tms DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Glasgow and South Western Railway (Additional
Powers), London and North Western Railway (Additional
Powers, England), and South Wales and Great Western
Direct Railway.

The Lords' amendments to the following bills were con-
sidered and agreed to :—Belfast Gas, Bristol and Exeter
Railway, Bristol Joint Station, Carnarvon New Water,
Great Eastern and London and Blackwall Railways, Ham-
mersmith and City Railway, London and South Western
Railway (New Lines in Surrey), London and South
Western Railway (Pirbright, Aldershot, and Farnham
Junction), and London and South Western Railway (Tor-
rington Extension).

PRISONS' BILL.

The house then went into committee on this bill.
The remaining clauses were agreed to.
On the schedule relating to punishment,

Mr. MUNDAY thought that power should be given to
inflict severe punishment on women, more than was done
at present. He proposed an amendment, allowing the hair
to be cut short in extreme cases.
Mr. BRISCOE opposed the amendment.

Mr. BARROW said that extreme cases did sometimes
occur. He know of a case where a woman of the most
violent temper was confined in jail, and the authorities
wore powerless to prevent her screaming and singing
obscene songs at the top of her voice.
Sir D. LEIGHTON said he was aware of a case where a
woman was so violent that it was necessary to put her in
irons and handcuffs to protect the prison officers from her
violence. Sho remained in that state for fourteen days
before she begged pardon. On another occasion she
threatened the matron, and told her she had not the power
to flog her. However, the matron, who had just at this
time resigned her appointment as she was going to
be married, hearing the woman going on in the most
disorderly manner went into the ward and gave her
a sound flogging, and she never created a disturbance
again. The conduct of the matron was illegal, that he
knew, and she would have been discharged had matters
been different ; but the matter showed that severe punish-
ment had its virtue.

A division, however, took place on the olause, the
original amendment having been withdrawn in favour of
inserting some words suggested by the hon. member for
Northampton.

Ayes
Noos
Majority
The amendment was negatived.

With rospect to the religious instruction of prisoners,
Sir G. GREY said the provisions of the Prison Ministers
Act was embodied in tho bill under discussion. According
to which each prisoner on entering a prison was called upon
to state his belief. There was no compulsory attendance
required at particular periods by all prisoners at one plane
of religious instruction. _ _ _

The schedules and preamble were then agreed to, and the
bill was ordered to be reported to the house with amend-
ments. The report was ordered to be brought up on
Thursday next.
The sitting of the house was then suspended.
The house resumed at 6 o'clock, and was
(LEFT SITTING.)

ba Assistant-Surgeon, vice Richard Westrop Saunders,
M.D., who resigns.
21st Foot—Lieut. Frederick George Jackson has been per-
mitted to resign the Adjutancy only.
26th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon W. Carpenter, M.D.,
to be Assistant Surgeon.
29th Foot—Lieut. Thomas Camden Lambert to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Richard Edwyn Barry, who're-.
tires ; Ensign Wm. Robert Elliott to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lambert ; Ensign Jacob Henry Pitfield
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Frederic Bond, who
retires ; Thomas Charles Yard, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Elliott; John Wm. Jameson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Pitfield ; Staff Assistant-
Surgeon John Peter Hamilton Boileau, M. 8., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Wm. Langford Farmer, appointed
to the 16th Lancers.

31st Foot—Lieutenant David Dempster Chadwick, from
half-pay, of the late sth West India Regiment, to be
Lieutenant, vice William Edward Tibbets, who retires

upon half pay.
41st Foot—Staff-Assist.-Surgeon William Hugh Jameson
to be Assistant-Surgeon.
49th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Lau ence Corban,
M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
63d Foot—Ensign Alexander H. Goldie Maubman to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Henry Beere, who
retires ; Gentleman Cadet Joseph Myres Jackson, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Taubman.
66th Foot—Ensign William Lowther Beattie to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Ambrose Benjamin Humfrey,
who retires ; Pearce O'Keilly, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase. vice Beattie.
96th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edward O'Sullivan to
be Assistant-Surgeon.
100th Foot—Lieut. Cecil Edward Leny Lyon to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Sir Alfred Adolphus 'Slade, Bart., who
retires ; Lieut. Jeremiah Bingham Kersteman to: be
Captain, by purchase, vice Constantine M'Dougall Moor-
som, who retires ; Ensign George Malcolm Fox to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lyon ; Ensign John Hart
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kersteman •, Louis
Nicholas de la Cherois-Crommelin, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Fox; Charles Villiers Summerville
Downes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hart.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. James John Plumridge
to be Captain, withoutpurchase, vice Stephen M'Donough,
who retires upon full-pay; Ensign Joseph Fitzgerald
Lynch to be Lieutenant, vice Plumridge ; Gentleman
Cadet Eyare King, from the Royal Military College, to
be Ensign, without, purchase, vice Lynch ; Frederick
Hutchinson Forgett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice W. E. Last, promoted, by purchase, in the 2d West
India Regiment.
DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain James Hare, late Adjutant of
a Depot Battalion, to be Instructor of Musketry, vice
Captain Francis Brownlow, 72d Foot, who rejoins his
Company ; Captain James N. Colthurst, late Adjutant
of a Depot Battalion, to be Instructor of Musketry, vice
Captain J. J. S. O'Neill, 20th Foot, proceeding to India
as District Inspector of Musketry.