MR. GRANT DUFFSir, it may tend to expedite the despatch of business to-night if, with the indulgence of the House, I now state the intention of the Government with regard to a matter in which some hon. Gentlemen take much interest, and about which a great many 377 Questions have been addressed to me within the last week. I have, then, to announce that Her Majesty's Government intends, on the earliest possible day after determining the most convenient mode of proceeding, to move for the appointment of a Committee upon Indian Finance, in the full belief that the appointment of such a Committee will not only give satisfaction to some hon. Members on both sides of the House, who are very desirous for an inquiry into our financial affairs, but also tend to dissipate sundry apprehensions and misapprehensions which have arisen with regard to them.
§ COLONEL SYKESsaid, he wished to know whether the inquiry of the Committee would be extended to the administration of Indian affairs generally?