The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-10 00:00:00

Directors, and the Board of Control respectively. Of all
aorrespondence and papers (not already laid before partia-
-1 meat) on the subject of the sail circular letters, or the said
rep lets or replies, on the belief of the natives in the corrup-
tibility of the Bombay government or its subordinate offi-
cers, or the moan, of cradle icing the same ; of all correspon-
deuce and papers (not already laid before parliament) on the
subject of the conduct of the Bombay government in
"arresting in linsine" some of Colonel Outram's most im-
portant investigations of official corruption, as described in
the political I tier of the Court of Directors of the 23d
I June, 1852 (Parliamentary paper No. 560, of session 18.52.
page 17), or on the subject of the charges against Colonel
I Outram, contained in the minutes of the Bombay govern-
l- meat or its members, of labouring under monomania (Pee-
liamentary paper, No. 560, of iUll 18.52, page 1,265),
and of being emitted by " rancorous personal feelings"
(Parliamentary paper No. 560, of seesion 1852, page 013),
in his conduct of certain of those inquiries which the Court
of Directors afterwards declare to have been conducted
with a " zeal, energy, ability, and success " entitling him
to credit (Parliamentary paper, Na. 560, of session 1852,
page 27). Of all documents on the records of the India
House, a owing, or tending to show, the viewsof individual
directors in reference to Colonel Outram's removal from
office, or in reference to the treatment he received from rho
Bombay government, or in reference to the probable conse-
quences of his removal, Sr in reference to the measures by
which these consequences might be best averted. Of all
documents tendiug to show what measure* have been tskea
by the B entuy government, or ordered by the Court of
Directors, far the purpose of eradicating the belief in the
corruptibility of high OfficiAls, which has been declared to
exist at Baroda by Col. Outratn, sari also by Mr. W. E.
Frere, the commissioner despatched by Lord Falkland's
government to report OR certain allegations made by Col.
Outram, and who furnished a report, dated the 72nd day
of October, 1351 (Parliamentary paper, No. 560, of session
1852, page 1,013), and by other public servants: And of
all documents tel.ding to chow if may or what measures
have been taken to effect the removal of, or convey censure
tot the ministerandothermembersoftheOuicower'adults r,
pronounced guilty by the Bombay government of hosing
laboured to thwart Col. Outram's legitimate and official
inquiries, and to interpose difficulties in the way of his
doing justice to oppressed individuals entitled by guarantee
to British protection (Parliamentary paper, No. 560, of
session 18.52, p. 17, and P. 411.)
Mr. WODEHOUSR—Return of the average quantity of
malt exported from the eastern ports of the United tiaiig-
dom—viz., Harwich, Lynn, and Yarmouth—under the
operation of the act of 1696, to which a moderated rate of
duty of per bushel, with a rate of bounty on export,
was attached ; specifying also whether any and what extent
of export of malt appears to have taken place at that time
from the ports of Kent, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, or any part
of Wales, either to Holland, France, the Channel Wands,
or any other part of Europe, most of which parts may be
assumed to be in some degree adapted for the growth of
barley, and all equally disposed to avail themselves of any
advantage which the existing state of circumstances might
hold out to them.

Mr. W ODE1101:88 —Copies of the statements made by Mr.
Presaly, the Secretary of the Board of Stamps, and Mr. Tre-
vor, the Comptroller of the Legacy Duty, before a commit•
tee of the House of L irds, iu the month of April, 1849, on
the burdens affecting real property; showing that a large
number of estates were devised to be sold fur the purposes
of sub-iquent partition, and therefore not, in point of fact,
exempt from the operation of the act affecting probates and
wills.

Mr. WODEItOtha —Returns showing the total amount of
taste remitted in the beginning of the session of 1816 by the
vote for the discontinuance of the property tat, and the
subsequent abandonment of the war malt duty and other
duties of excise (reaching to a sum between seventeen and
eighteen millions), which, according to a "memorandum
laul befire parliament respcc'ing the proceedings of govern-
meet ar to the unfunded debt from the year 1815," were
intended to form a part of the ways and means for a much
longer period, "by which the revenue became wholly'
uneu ail to meet the charge upon the country without some
extraneous aid." Of the total number of taxes re-imposed
in 1817, with the date of the issue of Exchequer bills
for the relief of the poor and the encouragement of public
W 0141., at the opening of the session of 1817, in the spring
and summer of which year it is distinctly stated tin the
document above referred to, that "a great improvement
had occurred in the internal situation of the country ;"
specryieg that the funds, which had been 63 at the begin-
niag of the year, rose about the month of August to 81,
and in October to 82 and upwards. And, of the average
price of wheat for the years 1815 and 1816, the average price
of wheat for the years 1817 and 1818, and the averve
of the year following, viz., 1819, with the date of the
special commission by which Mr. Hunt and others were
Wet by Mr. Justice Bayley, upon an indictment preferred
against them for a conspiracy, at Manchester, to alter the
legal frame of the government and constitution by force and
threats.