HC Deb 27 April 1860 vol 158 cc219-20
MR. KINNAIRD

said, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether he has received any official accounts of the origin and causes of the late disturbances among the Ryots in Lower Bengal; and whether any measures are in contemplation for increasing the number of European Magistrates and for improving the police generally in Bengal in accordance with the recommendations of the late Lieutenant Governor r By the last mail he believed that intelligence had been received of the increase of the disturbances.