§ SIR WILLIAM GALLWEYsaid, he rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether instructions have been issued to the Governor of Ceylon to form into a Special Fund, distinct from the general Revenue of the Colony, any sum accrued or accruing from the Duty on the Export of Coffee, imposed for the purpose of guaranteeing the cost of the Railroad to Kandy; and whether such fund is to be reserved exclusively for the defrayal of engagements in connection with the original Contract for that Railroad, or for the formation of any other Railroad which may be undertaken in substitution for it?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUEbegged to say that instructions had been issued to the Governor of Ceylon to form a special fund for the purpose adverted to by the hon. Member, and since that time sums of money had been paid into the Oriental Bank on account of that fund.