MR. J. B. SMITHsaid, he begged to ask the Secretary of State for India whether any steps have been taken by the Government of India to carry into effect the orders of the Home Government, to restore the Principality of Dhar to its Native rulers?
LORD STANLEYsaid, a letter had been sent to the Government of India upon the subject referred to, in the month of June or July last, but no official reply to that despatch had been since received. A private letter, however, from Lord Canning, dated the 28th of August, had reached him, in which reference was made to the difficulties which surrounded the question of the restoration of the Principality of Dhar, and it was intimated that an official communication would shortly follow. None such, however, had arrived.