VOL 2D Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence and memoranda...

VOL 2D Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence and memoranda Parliament and government administration: Registration Office: progress reports. Duration of parliaments: views of Lords Melbourne and Howick. Tithe Commission Office:appointments. Irish members and legislation: Daniel O'Connell's views. Record Commission: C. Buller's motion. Militia staff pensions: Lord Howick's views. Question of Heralds' fees. Proposed mining college at Durham. British Museum: J R proposes purchase of Italian MSS. Correspondence: T H Lister; Lords Howick, Melbourne, Brougham, Conyngham; C. Poulett Thomson; A Panizzi; D O'Connell; C Buller and others. Legal: appointment procedure of magistrates : political problems; proceedings against borough of Stamford. Capital punishment: excluded crimes. JR's memorandum on prison reform. Correspondence: JR; Hon. C Law; R M Rolfe; Sir J Campbell. Lord Cottenham; Sir Robert Peel. Ireland: tithes: problems in Ireland; Lord Morpeth's views on appropriation; JR's plan. Constabulary appointments. Irish Poor Laws: cabinet views on Nicholl report and Mulgrave proposals. Irish Poor Commission resolutions. "General Association of Ireland": aims and composition. Municipal legislation. Orange Lodges: draft resolution. Lord Mulgrave's reports on state of the country: JR considers that he "seems to have found out the way of governing it" [fs. 113-14]. Correspondence: JR; Duke of Leinster; Lords Mulgrave, Holland, Tavistock, Morpeth, Stanley; T W Buller; cabinet ministers and others. Foreign affairs: Spain and France: Lord Palmerston's review of the Spanish civil war; he advocates more active intervention in support of the Queen. Lord William Russell considers that Thiers is "a bad man for us [and] much opposed to our proceedings in Spain"[fs. 348-9]. Colonial affairs: Ionian Is.: Lord Nugent's libel action Correspondence: Lord Holland. Ecclesiastical: patronage and the question of London livings. Church rates; leases of Ely diocese. Correspondence: Archbishop of Canterbury; Revd. Sydney Smith; Bishop of Ely and others. Education: Cambridge and London universities: professionsl and administrative appointments. Correspondence: J E Drinkwater; H Warburton; R Sheepshanks; Lord Burlington; Prof. J S Henslow. and others

Topics

International

Litigation

Army

Religions

Tithes

Europe and Russia

Conflict

Pay and pensions

Ireland

Museums and galleries

Crime

Prisons

Personal and family papers