§ MR. KING (Hull, Central)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is true, as stated in India, that the Secretary of State recently sent out a despatch to the Viceroy in Council, suggesting that pensions of uncovenanted servants should be paid at a fixed rate of exchange, or anything to that effect; what, if so, was the reply of the Indian Government; and, whether he will lay a copy of the Secretary of State's despatch and the reply thereto upon the Table?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The statement made in India as described in the Question is inaccurate. The correspondence which has passed between the Secretary of State in Council and the Government of India on the subject cannot, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, be laid on the Table with advantage to the Public Service.