§ SIR RICHARD TEMPLE (Worcester, Evesham)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the Government of India have lately proposed to dismember the Bombay Presidency, by annexing Sind to the Punjab; and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government will place the Correspondence upon the Table of the House before arriving at a final decision on the subject?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)No such proposal has been submitted to the Secretary of State. The Secretary 325 of State is aware that a correspondence on the subject is going on between the Government of Bombay and the Government of India; but no such change could be made without the sanction of the Government of India. There is at present no correspondence to lay upon the Table.