§ In reply to a question from Mr. D. Maclean,
Lord Stanleywas understood to say, that the Government had sent out instructions to the Governor General of India to remove the regulations which prohibited the emigration of Hill Coolies. With regard to the manner in which the local Governments of the West-India Colonies should provide for their introduction, he had thought it most desirable to submit that question to those authorities themselves, it of course being for the Legislature of this country to consider hereafter the conditions upon which they proposed to arrange the matter. As to whether Parliament should give its sanction to the proceeding in the shape of a guarantee of any sort, for money or otherwise, the question was one of altogether too much importance to submit to Parliament at this period of the Session, and upon the whole also he thought it would be most desirable that they should delay 830 any legislation upon the point until the local assemblies were ready to submit to Parliament the conditions upon which they proposed to conduct the immigration.