The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-23 00:00:00

MADRAS IRRIGATION COMPANY.

Sir C. WOOD said that £797 000 had been collected for
the purposes in question, of which £717,000 bad boen ex
pended.

PRISONERS IN NEWGATE.
Mr. LOCKE asked the Home Secretary
attention had been directed to the treatment3ewhetohfer hisr_
sons confined in Newgate whether it was true that
all persons apprehended in the City of London
on suspicion of any offence are (regardless of their ante-
cedents) lodged in Newgate Gaol, and treated as cri-
minals ; whether such persons have to clean out
their own cells, and whether they are deprived of
proper sleeping accommodation and a proper knife with
which to eat their food; whether all persons remanded on
suspicion are prohibited from seeing their wives and
children, except through a double iron gratin,g and in
the presence of a gaoler ; whether persons so treated,
and ultimately acquitted or discharged, have any and what
redress ; and whether persons charged with less serious
offences are treated the same as persons charged -with
murder ?

Sir G. GREY said that persons in the position in ques-
tion were not treated as criminals, although the regulations
of the prison required that they should clean out their cells.
Their friends were allowed to see them under certain con-
ditions, and their legal advisers had free admission to
them.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. BLACK asked the Lord Advocate if the penalty
which was incurrable by the medical practitioners of Scot-
land under the 41st section of the act 17th and 18th Vict.,
c. 80, is repealed by the 14th section of the act 23d and
24th Vict., c. 83 and if not, did he intend to take the
necessary steps to procure a repeal of this enactment, and
so place the medical practitioners in Scotland on a footing
of equality with the medical practitioners in England and
Ireland.

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The LORD ADVOCATE said that the sections of the
act alluded to were not repealed, but their stringency had
been relaxed. With regard to the second part of the ques-
tion, he had to inform the, hon. member that it was not his
intention to bring in any bill on the subject.
THE NEW BRIDGE TO REGENT'S PARK.
Mr. H. LEWIS asked when the new bridge loading to
Regent's-park over the canal would bo completed and
opened to the public ?
Mr. COWPER said that the bridge was nearly corn-
mploente:hl,. and would be open to the public at the cud of the
secretary to the Admiralt
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COURTS OF JUSTICE BUILDING.
On the motion for going into committee
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY moved that on this bill,
consi-
deration of the bill should be the further
consequence of some of the objections
for a month, in
enter-
tained as regarded its provisions.j ions which were
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who presented petitions

in favour of the bill from different members of the bar, ex-
pressed -a hope that the house would not consent to the
amendmant of the hon. baronet.
The amendment was negatived, and the house went into
committee, and several of the clauses of the bill were
agreed to.
COURTS OP JUSTICE CONCENTRATION (SITE)
BLL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
In reply to Mr. ROLT,.
Mr, COWPER said that on carrying out the provisions
of this bill Government had no powers to make a bridge
over the streets or a canal under them.
The bill was then read a second time.
BANS NOTES ISSUE BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. BUCHANAN made some observations in wilitli he
raised the question as to the right of Government to io,
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