§ SIR DE LACY EVANSsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for War, with reference to the Letter from Sir Charles Trevelyan to General Peel, a Copy of which was laid before Parliament in July, 1858, whether the Statement therein proposed to be made of Sir Charles Trevelyan's reasons for differing in some important respects front the Report of the Committee appointed by Lord Panmure to examine the proposals submitted by him to the Royal Commission on the Purchase and Sale of Commissions in the Army, has been received by the Secretary of State for War; and, if so, when it will be laid before the House?
GENERAL PEELsaid, he had received the statement to which the hon. and gallant Gentleman had alluded, dated the 1st of February, and had submitted it to the Committee appointed by Lord Panmure. It was his intention to lay that statement and any answer that might be made upon it on the table of the House; but having received a very urgent application from Sir Charles Trevelyan, that it should be produced previous to his departure for India; if the hon. and gallant Gentleman moved for it he would lay it on the table at once, with the understanding that the answer of the Committee would also be moved for.
§ SIR DE LACY EVANSsaid, that he should on the following day make a Motion in accordance with the suggestions of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman.