§ MR. W. VANSITTARTsaid, he would beg to ask the President of the Board of Control if Her Majesty's Government intend to send out any additional troops to Bombay and Madras to supply the place of the regiments despatched from those Presidencies to Bengal and the North-Western Provinces? Such was the lawless and disturbed state of those Provinces that he would venture to state, from his experience of the country, that it would be impossible to remove any of the troops now there or on their way there for some considerable time, even after the fall of Delhi.
MR. VERNON SMITHsaid, that since the unfortunate occurrences in India Her Majesty's Government had sent one regiment and a battalion of the 60th Rifles to replace the regiment which was withdrawn from the Madras Presidency during the Crimean war. They had also sent four regiments to Point de Galle, to rendezvous until they were sent, at the discretion of the Governor General, to Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta. Besides that, the Directors of the East India Company had applied to Her Majesty's Government, and Her Majesty's Government had complied with the request, to send two regiments of foot to Madras, two regiments of foot to Bombay, and two companies of Foot Artillery to each presidency. The 3rd Dragoon Guards were also sent to Bombay. He hoped the hon. Member would be satisfied that, although the troops in the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay had hitherto shown themselves to be staunch and faithful, Her Majesty's Government had not neglected to provide a sufficiency of Queen's troops for those Presidencies in case of an emergency.