§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state whether the rules of Her Majesty's prisons apply to naval prisons; and who is the confirming authority in the case of sentences of flogging in naval prisons under the new Prisons Act.
MR. GOSCHENThe rules of Her Majesty's prisons are applied by Admiralty regulations to naval prisons, so far as the special circumstances of the naval service admit. In cases of punishment by flogging in naval prisons under the new Act, the Visitors adjudicate. No superior confirming authority is provided for. These rules are applied to prisons abroad as well as at home, and reference to a superior authority would lead to inconvenience with prisons on foreign stations.