HC Deb 12 July 1861 vol 164 cc802-3
SRI JOHN SHELLEY

said, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether the Government has received any information relative to the circulation by the Government of Bengal, in official envelopes marked "On Her Majesty's Service." of an English translation of a "Bengalli Play," containing attacks on British set- tlers connected with the manufacture of Indigo in Bengal, on their wives and families?

SRI CHARLES WOOD

replied, that if his hon. Friend had any curiosity to read the play, he would send him a copy; but he had received no information whatever that it was of the character which his hon. Friend described.

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