§ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYpresented a petition from the Cotton Supply Association, praying for the Parliamentary Encouragement of the East India Irrigation and Canal Company; and asked, Whether the Governor General of India had been informed that the settlement and execution of a contract between the Government and the East India Irrigation and Canal Company had been left entirely and without reserve in his hands, and that the Secretary of State was prepared to sanction any arrangement the Governor General might consider fair and equitable?
EARL DE GREY AND RIPONSir Charles Wood is ready to sanction any arrangements which the Government of India, after mature deliberation, may consider fair and equitable.