§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet any information to communicate with respect to the inquiry into the case of the treatment of the prisoner John Daly?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI received a letter from the visitors on the 17th inst., in which they informed me that they had already held three sittings for the purpose of inquiring into the medical and general treatment of John Daly and other prisoners in Chatham Prison. The visitors find it necessary to examine a large number of the prison officials, and they will probably have to hold three or four more sittings in order to complete their inquiry and prepare their report, and as their other duties render it impossible for them to sit de die in diem, some little time must necessarily elapse before the inquiry is concluded, but they trust that their report, and the evidence on which it is based, will be in the possession of the Home Office before the House re-assembles after the Easter Recess.
§ MR. SEXTONWho are the visitors?
§ MR. MATTHEWSThe County Court Judge of the district, Sir John Lennard, and two other gentlemen whose names I do not remember.