§ SIR DAVID WEDDERBURNasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether he can now inform the House as to the general substance of the Despatch recently forwarded by the India Office to the Government of India upon the subject of the Vernacular Press Act; and whether he will lay that Despatch upon the Table of the House?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONA despatch has recently been forwarded by the India Office to the Government of India, calling their attention to the Vernacular Press Act, and asking them to consider the expediency of repealing it. There will be no objection to laying that despatch on the Table if the hon. Baronet will move for it?