Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from...

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals relating to the Windward Islands. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (reference to costs of plaintiff in Donnelly v Gumbs, St Vincent);
• Admiralty (proceedings of HMS Argus during riots, Tobago);
• Council Office (Order in Council confirming Acts to amend constitution of St Vincent and Tobago);
• Crown Agents (loans for St Lucia Central Sugar Factory Company);
• Law Officers (Special Commission for trial of rioters, Barbados);
• War Office (military movements in connection with riots, Barbados; attendance of Lieutenant General Farren at Legislative Council, Barbados; steps taken for preservation of peace during trial of rioters, Tobago; Queen's Birthday dinners,, Barbados);
• West India Committee (objections to confederation, Barbados; outbreak with reference to confederation, Barbados; serious aspect of affairs in Barbados; copies of telegrams reporting rioting and loss of life, Barbados; 'agitation' in Barbados and request for recall of governor; position of affairs in Barbados; origin of 'disturbances' and as to their being attributable to governor; protests against changes in constitution, Barbados; governor's proposals to improve system of labourers as tenants, Barbados);
• Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company (unsettled conditions due to confederation);
• Colonial Office (interview with deputation of West India Committee; selection of Justice Phillips for purposes of trying rioters);
• General Post Office (claim of postmaster of Barbados for expenses of remitting Imperial share of postage collected; grant of power to Colonial Postmaster to detain mail packets, Barbados; non-receipt of certain remittances, Tobago; application of Royal Mail Company for steamers to be allowed to depart before appointed hour when practicable, Barbados);
• Charity Organisation Society (appointment and passage of Mr Boreham, Tide Waiter);
• Anti-Slavery Society (unsatisfactory state of prisons in Barbados);
• St Lucia Central Sugar Factory Company (critical position of company; affairs of the colony).

Individuals:

• F M Alleyne (Barbados: critical state of affairs in the island; conduct of governor in holding communication with so-called 'bad characters' who believe in land equality for 'black' people);
• R B Austin and P L Phillips (Barbados: resignation of members of Legislative Council owing to introduction of two additional official members);
• R B Austin and others (memorial for Governor Hennessey's recall, Barbados);
• Archbishop of Canterbury and others (diocese of Barbados - separation of remaining Windward Islands; no objection to Act No 11, Barbados; Anglican Church Ordinance 1 of 1876, St Lucia);
• Thomas Daniel & Company (affairs of the island, Barbados; request for extended powers to West India Loan Commissioners, Barbados);
• G William DesVoeux (St Lucia: proposed code of civil law; Fleming's resignation of his seat in Executive Council; need of additional £2000 for reconstruction of wharves);
• Archdeacon Dunbar (insistence of Lieutenant Governor of Tobago that clergy must live in their own parishes);
• Hill & Chambers (Barbados: alarming state of the island; constitutional changes effected by change in Governor's commission, etc);
• F Hincks (opinions as to confederation, Barbados);
• T D Hill (Barbados: charges by Governor Hennessey against proprietors respecting their treatment of tenants; appointment of commission for trial of rioters; passage of Bill prolonging sessions because of trial of rioters, etc; appointment of Phillips as judge for trial of rioters; necessity for immediate recall of Governor Hennessey);
• Leith (irregular sales of land under alleged escheat by government, Grenada);
• E K Moylan (practice at the bar whilst in office as Chief Magistrate, St Vincent);
• J McCarthy (appointment as medical officer, Grenada);
• W C Pigott (suspension from office of coroner, Barbados);
• Phillips and Lynch (memorial for removal of Governor Hennessey, Barbados);
• Lushington Phillips (trial of rioters, Barbados);
• H Richards (asks for removal to another colony, Grenada);
• F Ryder (appointment as principal medical officer in Carriacou);
• John Savage (report of commissioners of education, Barbados);
• Lieutenant General Sir C Trollope (Barbados: suspension of confederation until petitions against have been heard; federation of Windward Islands);
• Sir J Walker (Barbados: dangerous state of the island and Hennessey's speech of 3 March; Governor's statement that he acted for an absentee proprietor while holding office under the Crown).

Topics

Charities

International

Manufacturing

Litigation

Labour

Public disorder

Army

Caribbean

Slavery

Race relations

Food and drink

Navy

Communications

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Prisons