§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether he will add to the Papers now before the House, the dissents of Members of the Council of India to the Vernacular Press Act, so that they may be in the hands of Members before the right honourable Member for Greenwich brings on his Motion which stands for Friday?
§ MR. E. STANHOPESir, the proceedings of the Indian Council are usually of a confidential character, and my noble Friend desires entirely to reserve his right to grant or to refuse the production of any part of those proceedings. But, as in the particular case of the dissents of Members of that Council to the Vernacular Press Act, he is unwilling to do anything which may even have the appearance of placing any impediment in the way of its full discussion, he has authorized me to lay these Papers on the Table of the House. I have done so to-day, and I hope they may be in the hands of hon. Members before Friday evening.
§ Subsequently—
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Minutes written by the late Lord Metcalfe and Lord Macaulay in 1835 on the Liberation of the Press of India, and referred to in the Papers lately laid before Parliament with reference to the Indian Press Law?
§ MR. E. STANHOPESir, I will lay upon the Table to-night the Papers referred to in the Question, together with the Minutes written on the same occasion by two other Members of the Legislative Council.