§ Mr. Hoggbegged to put a question to his hon. Friend, the Secretary for the Board of Control. There had been laid before the House a despatch from the Secretary for the Colonies, addressed to the commissioners for regulating the affairs of India, transmitting a copy of an Order of her Majesty in Council regulating the introduction of labourers from India into the Mauritius; also a copy of a despatch containing the opinion of her Majesty's Ministers, regarding the supply of free labour from India to the Mauritius, and requesting that the despatch and enclosure should be transmitted to the Governor-general of India. His question was, whether the President of the Board of Control, before authorising the transmission of those documents, would consider it his duty to lay on the Table a copy of a despatch from the Court of Directors, containing their views of the subject, and the instructions which 1377 they might issue on the subject to the local Government.
Mr. B. Baringsaid, the object of the Board of Control, and he believed also the wish of the Court of Directors, was, to give every possible facility to the course taken on this subject. He had no objection to lay the papers to which his hon. Friend referred on the Table.