MR. OTWAYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether the Home Government have sanctioned the transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to Simlah?
VISCOUNT CRANBOURNE,in reply, said, the Home Government had not only not sanctioned any such transfer, but no application had been made for such a transfer. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman was referring to the excursion which the Governor General had taken to Simlah.