§ MR. GRANTHAMasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether he has received any communications from India as to an alleged refusal on the part of the Government in India to reimburse Lieutenant Colonel Malcolmson, C.B. 849 and Major Currie, the expenses they were respectively put to in defending themselves at the trial by court martial, ordered to be held in consequence of charges made against them by Brigadier General Burrows and Nuttall, which charges were disproved at the trial on which Colonel Malcolmson and Major Currie were honourably acquitted?
§ THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said, no communication had been received from India on the subject of the refusal on the part of the Government to reimburse the officers mentioned, nor had the Home Government received any applications in any other form. Of course, if any such application were made it would be considered; but it would be contrary to all precedent to grant it.