§ MR. SAMPSON LLOYDasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether, considering the great importance to the commercial and industrial interests of this Country of establishing commercial intercourse with the populous south-western provinces of China, Her Majesty's Government intend to take steps to complete the survey of the land route from Rangoon to Kiang Hung, which in 1867 was ordered to be made by the Noble Lord the present Chief Secretary of State for India, and of which the first half was actually completed in that year, as appears by a Report laid before this House?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONAs my hon. Friend is aware, the completion of this survey will involve certain risk and considerable expense. Pending the consideration of the information obtained by the recent missions of Colonel Browne and Mr. Grosvenor, the Indian Government do not think it expedient, in the present state of feeling upon the frontier, to take steps for the completion of the survey of this particular route.