§ SIR DE LACY EVANSsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether he has not received from the Secretary of State for India in Council a Letter from the Bombay Government, dated the 25th day of February, 1860, with enclosed Letter from the Inspector-General of Ordnance in Bombay, dated the 30th day of November, 1859, together with Copy of a Letter from the Bombay Government, dated the 12th day of March, 1860, with Enclosure from the Inspector-General dated the 15th day of December, 1859, all relating to Stores sent from this country to India; and whether there will be any objection to laying Copies of this Correspondence upon the Table of the House, together with Copies of any Correspondence concerning the recall, by the Council of India, of certain Storekeepers recently sent to India by the Secretary of State for War?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that he had in the course of the afternoon obtained the correspondence to which the question of the hon. and gallant Gentleman referred, and there would be no objection to lay it upon the table. He was very glad that the hon. and gallant Officer had asked for these papers, because he trusted that they would remove a good deal of misapprehension as to the value of the stores and the degree in which perishable articles were sent in an unserviceable state. He might say that these occurrences took place long before he was in office, and also before the creation of the office of Secretary of State for India.