HC Deb 20 July 1847 vol 94 c591
SIR R. H. INGLIS

asked his right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Control, if he was aware that the Marquess of Tweeddale, the Governor of Madras, had issued a regulation allowing the use of Bibles in the class schools established for the education of the natives in that presisidency, and if this practice had been discountenanced by the Government at home?

SIR J. HOBHOUSE

was understood to say that such a regulation had been issued by the Council at Madras, and that the Court of Directors had considered it to be a new step, the effect of which might be to alarm the natives.