§ SIR H. COTTONTo ask the Secretary of State for India, if he will state in what year the Report of the Royal Commission which sat shortly after the Mutiny to consider the question of the forces necessary for the protection of India, and advised that 80,000 British troops were required, was presented to this House; and what is the reference number of the Command Paper in which that Report was published.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) The Report was presented in 1859. The reference number of the Command Paper is Cd. 2515.