§ MR. DALRYMPLEasked the Under Secretary of State for India, in reference to questions on the same subject on July 10th of last year and February 18th of this year, Whether any decision has yet been arrived at by him in regard to the new rules affecting the leave of those uncovenanted civil servants in India whose cases have remained undecided since last year; and, if not, what has become of the list of uncovenanted civil servants in Bengal which accompanied a despatch from the Government of India, dated May 26th, 1874, and upon whose cases a decision was deferred until the receipt of further information from that Government, while the list for the province of Oudh was accepted by him, and the officers mentioned in it were admitted, two years ago, to the benefit of the new rules?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONSir, no decision has at present been arrived at by the Secretary of State regarding the application referred to in the Question of the hon. Member. The subject is one upon which it is very difficult for the Secretary of State to make any great change without having before him a statement of the definite opinion of the Government of India. No such statement has at present been received, but a despatch upon the subject will shortly be sent out.