institutions, many who though perhaps finding the food better than they had expected when they first entered the place, are unwilling to submit to rules of order. propriety, cleanliness and regularity, necessary to such a place, without fault finding. Hence it is not unusual while enquiring along the cells of male convicts to hear the inmates of several cells express their satisfaction with treatment and food, while those in a cell next to these declare the food intolerable in quality, and deficient in quantity. These evils of the grumblers are scarcely known in Europe, strict discipline and severe application of penalties, lead the convict there to quiet submission; while excessive out-of-door interference leads a few of the inmates of our Prison to undervalue the advantages which they enjoy beyond what they had in foreign jails, and to overrate the inconveniences of confinement, and the want of artificial stimulants, and the necessity of conforming to general rules.

Enquiry shows that the amount of beef supplied to each prisoner daily is a little over twelve ounces of meat, independent of bone and gristle. This is by far a larger amount of meat than is contained in the dietary of any European prison, and is found, with very few exceptions, satisfactory to the prisoners.

FOR THE SICK.

The physician of the prison has complete direction. of the dietary of every prisoner reported as unwell, and

food of a good quality, from beef tea to chickens, is supplied, and such appliances as may be prescribed by the "Doctor." Mutton chops, beef steak, and butter for the bread are usual for the convalescent. Of course such provisions are furnished only on the order of the physician.

EASTERN PENITENTIARY.

The following is the established dietary of the Eastern Penitentiary, in this City; of course all gives way to the wants of the sick, and the directions of the physician :

BREAKFAST.—Every Morning.-Coffee made of Rio coffee, two pounds, and roasted rye, two pounds; with one pound, or one and a half pounds, bread.

DINNER.-Sunday.-Beef, soup, with beans and

potatoes.

Monday.-Beef and soup.

Tuesday.-Mutton, soup, and potatoes.

Wednesday.-Beef and soup.

Thursday.-Mutton, soup, and potatoes.

Friday.-Beef and soup.

Saturday.-Mutton, soup, and potatoes.

SUPPER.-Tea and bread.

During three months of the year, sour crout and pork, one dinner in each week.

Quantity of meat about one pound for each individual.

EUROPEAN DIETARIES.

The Congress held in London in 1872, appointed a commission to gather, digest, and publish, what are called Penitentiary Statistics, and a folio of 109 pages has been prepared, printed in Italy, in the French language, and sent forth as the first fruits of the labours of that Commission. The contents are exceedingly interesting, and use will be made of them as circumstances suggest.

We have read with care that part of the report of the Congress, that presents the Tariff Elementaire, that is, the dietary of most of the principal penitentiaries and large prisons of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Continent of Europe. It will be seen that the food of prisoners in the two penal institutions in Philadelphia, viz., the Penitentiary and the County Prison, exceeds in quantity and quality that which is supplied in Europe. We commence with the Empire of Austria.

AUSTRIA.

In the penal institutions of Austria there is no meat served to prisoners, excepting on Sunday and Thursday, and then not every week; and when it is served, it is a part of the soup, and accompanies that dish. The following are the directions for making the soup for Monday, and for one hundred persons :

One hundred and seventy-eight pounds for one hundred men, and of that weight one hundred and fortyone pounds are of water, and thirteen pounds are bones. and gristle.

The next use of meat is on Monday, occasionally, when to one hundred and forty-one pounds of water, there are added thirty-one pounds of bullock's liver; so that for one hundred men there shall be thirty-five pounds of herbs, liver, and salt.

About twenty ounces of rye bread is furnished to each prisoner daily.

Only two meals a day are furnished.

Mush and milk are served once a week.

HUNGARY;

a part of Austria, has for her prison nearly the same dietary as that of the Empire.

BELGIUM.

Belgium, which has the best general penitentiary system in the world, has a very modest dietary, rather upon the maigre order. She supplies soup every day, but only three times a week do the prisoners receive

soup that is made of fresh meat. The following is the recipe for the soup supplied to one hundred prisoners.

The breakfast is formed of bread of mixed flour, and drink made of forty-five quarts of water, two pounds of chiccory, and five quarts of milk.

DENMARK.

The prison fare for Denmark is two pounds of rye bread a day for men, and one and a half pounds for women; one pint of beer, and in winter half a pint of hot beer. Neither tea nor coffee are served, and nothing (excepting the beer) given as substitute.

Twice a month, on Sunday, there is a soup served, in which there are fifty pounds of beef, bone and all, for one hundred persons, and on the alternate Sunday soup is served, made of HORSE FLESH.

Subjoined is a recipe for the horse meat soup :