§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If there is any objection to lay upon the Table an approximate statement, with explanatory details, of the head of charges and amounts thereof, which will show, as Sir John Strachey states in his financial speech, that a net reduction of the net Civil Expenditure had been effected in the seven years from 1869 to 1876, amounting to no less than £1,500,000 a-year?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTON,in reply, said, there would be no objection to lay the Papers on the Table. The figures of Sir John Strachey were based on those of the last seven years.