HC Deb 18 May 1893 vol 12 c1239
MR. PAUL (Edinburgh, S.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India will be directed to consider the desirability of carrying out the recommendation made by two members of the recent Commission that trial by jury should be extended to all Sessions cases in the district of Bengal, where it now partially prevails; and whether the Government will consider the desirability of introducing it as an experiment into the se districts where it is not now in force, as the Commissioners have unanimously found it to have been successful over so largo an area?

*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. GEORGE RUSSELL,) North Beds.

A further Despatch on the recommendations contained in the Report of the Commission is expected from India, and the Secretary of State must reserve any expression of his opinion until that Despatch has been received and considered.