§ MR. MACDONALDasked Mr. Attorney General, If persons that are employed in the dockyard and other public works of the Government fall within the provisions of the Employers' Liability Bill; and, if they do not, if he would explain why are they excluded from the protection intended for other workmen?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES), in reply, said, the workmen referred to did not come within the provisions of the Bill. It was not intended that they should be included in its provisions, for it was a well-known legal principle that the Crown could not be proceeded against by a subject in respect of any alleged wrong; so that if 296 workmen in the Government Dockyards were brought within the scope of the Bill, they would be placed in a better position than the rest of the public.