HC Deb 09 March 1860 vol 157 cc217-8
GENERAL PEEL

said, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether there is any truth in the statement that has appeared in the papers, copied from the Oude Gazette, "That tidings have been received at head-quarters of a feeling of discontent still lingering in the minds of the remnants of the late Company's European Troops, especially the Artillery; it has transpired that several of them, in different parts, have been in correspondence, urging each other to agitate for the bounty; to put down this spirit of insubordination the Government has resolved upon some most stringent measures, which the ringleaders will be shortly made to feel."

SIR CHARLES WOOD

said, he had seen the statement to which his right hon. and gallant Friend had referred in the morning papers, but the Government had received no confirmation of the intelligence.