§ MR. SEYMOUR KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a person named Jawad Hussain has been arrested in Hyderabad, Deccan, on a charge of plotting to murder the British Resident, Mr. Plowden, or to blow up the Residency with dynamite; and that the arrest is stated to have been in consequence of the production to the Nizam by Mr. Plowden of a letter purporting to warn him that such a plot existed; whether there is any ground to believe in the existence of such a plot; and, if so, are any other persons stated to be implicated in it; what was the cause of the banishment from Hyderabad, on 15th ultimo, of the Political and Financial Secretary, the Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk, Mehdi Ali; and, having regard to the circumstance that similar designs on Mr. Plowden's life when he was Resident at the Court of the Ruler of Cashmere were attributed to that Ruler, and were without inquiry afterwards put forward as one of the causes officially assigned for his deposition, Her Majesty's Government will direct that a full and careful inquiry be made by some independent authority into the facts connected with the alleged plot, so as to insure that no injustice is done to the Nizam's Government?
MR. G. RUSSELLThe Secretary of State has seen a newspaper statement that Mr. Plowden had received the anonymous letter referred to by my hon. Friend. He has not received any information from the Government of India on the subject, nor as to the banishment of Mehdi Ali. He has, however, telegraphed for information on the subject.