§ Order for Committee read.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, before you leave the Chair, Sir, I hope the House will allow me to make an observation in reference to a remark that has fallen from the right hon. Gentleman the late President of the Board of Control (Mr. Vernon Smith). In the observations which I made in respect to the instructions sent out to India I certainly had no intention whatever to convey to the House that any censure was implied on Viscount Canning. My observations were strictly in reply to the question put by the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Devonport (Sir E. Perry); I had in my mind his reference to the kingdom of Oude in particular, and I wished to convey to him that the instructions sent out to the Governor General of India indicated the observance of a spirit of toleration and respect for property, mentioning, as far as Oude was concerned, that a distinction should be drawn with reference to the revolt in that kingdom and that in other parts of India, and that we should consider it rather in the light of a war that had ceased than a rebellion which was raging.
§ House in Committee.
§ Mr. FITZROY in the Chair.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERmoved the following Resolution—
That, towards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, all Drafts or Orders for the payment of any sum of money to the bearer on demand, which being drawn upon any Banker, or any person or persons acting as a Banker, and residing or transacting the business of a Banker within fifteen miles of the place were such Drafts or Orders are 1602 issued, are now exempt from Stamp Duty, shall be chargeable with the Stamp Duty of One Penny for every such Draft or Order.
§ Resolution agreed to.
§ House resumed.
§ Resolution to be reported on Monday next