LORD STANLEYsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether he has received any recent Reports relative to the investigation into the Land Tenures of Oude; and, if so, whether he is able to state the substance of such Reports, or to lay them upon the table?
§ SIR CHARLES WOOD, in reply, said, the noble Lord was aware that whatever rights had existed would be preserved. He had made inquiries for the purpose of ascertaining to what extent the investigation had been going on under the direction of the officers appointed for that purpose, and who were as impartial as men could be. He had received no public Reports upon the subject, but as far as private communications went the purport of them was in accordance with the views of the noble Lord that very few claims to occupancy had been established.