§ SIR DE LACY EVANSsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether it is the fact that twelve Field Batteries of Artillery are ordered or intended to be sent to India; and whether the transit of troops to India by the way of Egypt is ordered to be totally discontinued.
LORD STANLEYreplied, that the batteries had been ordered and would be sent, but not until June, by way of the Cape, so that they would not arrive in India during the hot weather; and that the transit of troops by Egypt was only adopted on account of the emergency occasioned by the disturbances in India, and would not be adopted for the future.