HC Deb 09 May 1878 vol 239 c1597
MR. NEWDEGATE

I beg leave to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, or some other Member of the Government, Whether he can inform the House when the Estimate mentioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday last with respect to the removal of troops from India to Malta will be brought under the attention of this House?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS

In the absence of my right hon. Friend, I can only state what he himself stated to the House of Commons—namely, that he would let the House know at the earliest possible opportunity when he would be able to bring forward that Estimate.

THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON

I have been partly anticipated by the hon. Member for North Warwickshire; but it may be convenient that I should give formal Notice—as I had previously intended to do—that I will on Monday next ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, When the Estimate for the expenses of the removal of Indian Troops will be laid upon the Table, and on what day he proposes that it shall be considered in Committee?