§ MR. OTWAYwished to ask the President of the Board of Control, whether it be true that the Government of India has recently proposed to annex the ancient Rajpoot State of Kerowlee to the British territories, in pursuance of the claim which was asserted in Lord Dalhousie's Minute of the 30th of August, 1848; and if so, whether the Home Government has approved of this proceeding; also, whether there be any objection to lay on the table of the House the communications which have passed between the authorities at home and in India on this subject?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, that the question had been referred by the Indian Government for the decision of the Home Government, and that the Home Government had decided to sanction the succession of the youth adopted by the late Rajah to the government of Kerowlee.