§ MR. VANSITTARTsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether his attention or that of his Council has been directed to the Memorials of Her Majesty's Covenanted Civilians, praying for the redress of certain grievances?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, that the Memorial in question had received the attention of himself and of the Members of his Council; but the question required very considerable attention, especially as the circumstances of the memorialists in the three Presidencies were different, and their requests different, and where there were also certain arrangements of a complicated character that must be gone into. He quite agreed that the case was one which required action on the part of the Government, and he could assure his hon. Friend that it should receive the most careful consideration from himself and the Council of India.