COLONEL GRAYasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If, seeing the early age at which many of our soldiers are sent to India, as shown by the return of the ages of the non-commissioned officers and men of the 54th regiment, the authorities there will send as many as possible (of those under twenty-one years of age) to the hill stations to be there employed in industrial pursuits, until of an age better calculated to bear the effects of the Indian climate?
MR. GRANT DUFFsaid, the Government of India was quite alive to the expediency of sending as many young soldiers to the Hill Stations as the interests of the service would permit; but it would not be conducive to discipline that general instructions should be given to send to the hills all young soldiers arriving in India.