§ The EARL of ELLENBOROUGHsaid, he begged leave to lay upon the table of the House a Bill comprising but one clause, 1202 and which was taken from the Government Bill on India now before the House of Commons. It was not a clause of which he himself particularly approved; but he certainly thought he should fail in any endeavour to induce their Lordships to join in the exact conclusion which he might have formed upon this subject. It was a clause by which the Company were enabled to increase the European force now in their service by 7,810 men. At present the European force allowed to be employed by them, under the law, was 12,200; but under the new Bill they would be enabled to have 20,000 in their service. And, further, instead of having in this country only 2,000 troops, they might have 4,000. He (the Earl of Ellenborough) felt so strongly the necessity of losing no time whatever in increasing the number of the European forces in India, that he thought it most highly desirable that their Lordships should at once pass, as a separate Bill, this clause, and send it down to the House of Commons, so that it might become law some six or eight weeks sooner than it would do if their Lordships were to wait until the Government Bill came before them. The recruiting service might then very shortly commence; and from 2,000 to 3,000 men might be forthwith sent out to India, to be at the disposal of the Government, to meet any emergency which might arise consequent upon the withdrawal of Her Majesty's troops for our requirements elsewhere. He begged, therefore, to move the first reading of the Bill. Bill read 1a.