§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If his attention has been called to a recent sentence of public flogging inflicted upon certain students of a high school at Dacca, on the charge of being concerned in a brawl or disturbance with the police; and, whether these youths belonged to some of the most respectable families of Dacca and the neighbourhood?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSSir, the Secretary of State's attention has been called to certain Indian newspapers, from which it appears that three boys, seemingly students of the Dacca Collegiate School, were convicted on different charges of assault, and sentenced to be whipped. In two, if not in all, of the cases the whipping was to be by way of "school discipline." There is no information in the India Office as to the family or respectability of the boys thus punished. The case is receiving attention.