§ SIR CHARLES WINGFIELDsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether his attention has been drawn to a Letter in the "Times" newspaper of the 25th June, from Mr. Forsyth, in which it is stated that, owing to the want of a sufficient staff of translators, a period of four or five years generally elapses after the admission of an appeal from India to the Privy Council before the report reaches England, and that at the present moment there are between two hundred and fifty and three hundred appeals from the Presidency of Bengal alone awaiting transmission to England; and, whether it is the intention of the Secretary of State for India to direct any measures to be taken to expedite the transmission of appeals to this Country?
MR. GRANT DUFFsaid, in reply, that the Secretary of State in Council lately called the attention of the Bombay Government to delays in the transmission of appeals from the High Court there, and he intended presently to address the Government of India as to the expediency of hastening the transmission of appeals from all the High Courts.