COLONEL JERVISasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the Memorials of Lieutenant Colonel W. Stubbs, R.A., Major Stevenson, R.A., and R. Sadleir, R.A., forwarded to the Adjutant General, Horse Guards, War Office, February 18th 1875, by order of the Right Hon. the Commander in Chief in India, Lord Napier of Magdala, together with his Letter, No. 771 Camp, dated 1st February 1875, reached the War Office; if so, if he will explain War Office Return, 25th June 1875—
That no Memorials nor Letters addressed to the Commander in Chief in India by the Officers of the Royal Artillery, complaining of the mode in which the Warrant of the 5th day of July 1872 has been carried out by the Government of India, have been forwarded to the War Office;whether his attention has been called to a Letter of Lord Napier of Magdala, dated Simla, 9th August 1875, likewise addressed to the Adjutant General of the Forces, Horse Guards, London, informing H.R.H. Field Marshal Commanding in Chief that he had received many other Memorials, but had not forwarded them, because he was awaiting a reply to his Letter of the 1st February 1875, but had informed the Memorialists "that the question had been submitted 1323 to His Royal Highness's consideration;" and, whether any reply has as yet been made to either of the said Letters or any one of the Officers concerned?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY, in reply, said, he had made inquiries, and he found that there was no trace in the War Office of any such letter of Lord Napier or of the memorials said to have been enclosed. In regard to the second part of the Question, there had been a difference of opinion upon the subject, and no reply had yet been made to either of the letters.