§ SIR EDWARD WATKINasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in reference to representations made to him last year, he has proposed any improvement in the dietary or any reduction in the labour of soldiers sent by verdict of Court Martial to Millbank or any other Civil Prison in which military are confined?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, the Secretary of State for War some time ago appointed a Committee, and, in accordance with their Report, sanctioned certain alterations in the dietary of military prisoners in Millbank. He (Mr. Cross) thought the Report so good that he adopted the same scale for all the other prisoners.