Text this: Return to an order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 12 March 1857 for, a copy of a despatch from the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General of India in Council, in the Judicial Department, dated the 11th day of March 1857, No. 20, as to the memorial of certain Christian missionaries, praying for a commission of inquiry into the social condition of the rural population of Bengal (in continuation of Parliamentary paper, no. 51, of the present session)