§ MR. NAOROJI (Finsbury, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether he could lay a statement upon the Table of the House showing the details of the annual expenditure at the India Office since the institution of the grant on objects of a literary, scientfic, or antiquarian character (see page 9 of the Homo Accounts), and the objects to which literary patronage is extended, as well as details of any analogous expenditure not included in the grant—e.g., the cataloguing of the Records of the India Office, the indexing of the Indian events recorded in The Times newspaper, and the recent Literary Missions to Portugal?
MR. G. RUSSELLThe Secretary of State has no objection to giving the information for which my hon. Friend asks as an Unopposed Return; but I 1872 should be glad if he would confer with me as to the terms of his Notice of Motion before putting it on the Paper.