§ Mr. S. Wortley moved, that there be laid before the House copies of Despatches from the Governor-general of Bengal in Council, the Governors of Madras and Bombay, containing copies of any Proclamation in those Presidencies for the Abolition of the practice of Suttee. The hon. Member stated, that the House would see by these despatches, that the order for the abolition of this practice had been already issued in Bengal and Madras, and though it had 1356 not, at the date of the last despatches, been issued in Bombay, it was probable that it had been issued since.
§ Mr. F. Buxtoncongratulated the House and the country on the abolition of this barbarous custom, and thought the noble Lord at the head of the government of India was entitled to great credit, for his humanity and firmness in doing that which other Governors-general had been afraid to attempt.
§ Motion agreed to.