§ COLONEL NORTHasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether any application has been made to confer a medal on the officers and men who composed the expedition to Perak?
§ COLONEL STANLEY, in reply, said that, so far as he could trace the matter, some application of that kind was made two or three years ago; but the service performed at Perak was not thought to be of so important a nature as to render it the subject of a special medal. At the same time there was some hard fighting; and he was, therefore, prepared to place himself in communication with the Colonial and the India Offices with the view of seeing whether the medal for frontier service could not be so extended as to include a special clasp for Perak.