§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can lay upon the Table a copy of the Order in Council issued by Lord Glenelg, Liberal Secretary of State in 1837, permitting West Indian planters to ship coolies from India, together with the Reports on the subject referred to in the Resolution of the late right hon. W. E. Gladstone, in 1840, and mentioned in the "Life of Gladstone" by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Montrose Burghs; and if he can inform the House how many similar Ordinances have been sanctioned with regard to indentured labour, and in what years they were passed.
§ MR. LYTTELTONAs the hon. Member has already moved for a Return of the Orders in Council as regards indentured labour from India now in force in British colonies, and I hope soon to be able to lay it on the Table, I do not think it is necessary to give a transcript of the Orders on the subject at so remote a date as 1837. With regard to the second part of the Question, I am unable to trace the Resolution in the records of the Colonial Office.