§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether he had seen the telegram from Lahore in The Times of the 6th instant, in which the Correspondent of that journal, after stating that the Ameer's Envoy passed through Lahore on his way to Simla, went on to say—
I am assured that he comes at the suggestion of the Viceroy, and hears a message in which the Ameer reminds the Viceroy that he had earnestly and repeatedly hegged the Government to hold Candahar for one year, in order to enable the Ameer to make his position secure. It is clear from the Envoy's account that the Ameer began to lose heart at hearing of the news of the evacuation of Candahar;and whether he was in a position to contradict the truth of these assertions?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONI have not received from the Government of India any information respecting the position of the Envoy from Cabul to Simla. I am, therefore, unable to say what message he may have been charged to deliver, or what statement he may have made. But I have referred to the Correspondence which has passed between the Ameer and the Government of India, and it certainly is not the case that the Ameer had earnestly and repeatedly asked the Government to hold Candahar for one year, in order to enable him to make his position secure.
§ SIR HENRY TYLERWas a request ever made to that effect?