§ SIR J. JARDINE (Roxburghshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that in a charge delivered in a recent visitation of his diocese the Bishop of Bombay has drawn public attention to the practice of the reservation of the Holy Sacrament for adoration, or of the adoration of the Blessed Virgin, or children's Eucharists, or any rites or ceremonies which have been pronounced by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to be contrary to the law of the Church of England; and will he say whether any of such practices have occurred in churches belonging to the Government of India, or supported out of the public revenues, or have been followed by chaplains or others under the superintendence, direction, and control of the Governor-General of India in Council.
§ MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSEI have seen the charge delivered by the Bishop of Bombay, but I am not aware whether any of the practices prohibited in it had been customary in churches served by Government chaplains or supported out of public revenues. The Bishops in India have the authority required to deal with them wherever they prevail.