VOL. 2F Summary of Contents. Political correspondence, memoranda and reports. Parliament...

PRO 30/22/2F

1837 Aug.-Dec.

VOL. 2F Summary of Contents. Political correspondence, memoranda and reports. Parliament and government administration: Tithe legislation: question of the appropriation clause. JR's hostility to the Tories; he considers their conduct on the Poor Law "most disgraceful" [fs. 9-11]. Parliament dissolved. Election results and JR's comments thereon; his analysis for the Queen. Correspondence of JR and Lord Melbourne on proposed measures for and date (Nov. 14) of first session. Comment on JR's "finality" speech. The Speaker considers he does not have the confidence of the house and asks to resign. Parliamentary privilege; attorney general's views. Question of insolvent debtors legislation. Civil honours and awards. Queen's approval of and comment on various measures [copy extracts from [?] correspondence dated 1837-38]. Correspondence: JR.; Lords Melbourne, Tavistock, Campbell, J. Abercromby and others. Ireland: Order of St. Patrick: declaration substituted for oath. Election results. Dismissal of a magistrate: case of Col. W. Verner, MP.; JR. considers Lord Mulgrave should not have interfered. Voluntary dissolution of the "General Association" and JR's comments thereon. Question of clergy magistrates. JR's concern at increase of crime; his statistical list of outrages; Col. J. Shaw Kennedy's report from co. Sligo. Legal appointments. Irish tithes question: JR. approves Archbishop of Dublin's plan for a settlement; his memoranda thereon [fs. 262-73]. Poor Law legislation (Poor Relief and Employment bills 1837-38): Daniel O'Connell's objections to two clauses and cabinet views thereon; Edwin Chadwick's report; comment on Irish Poor Commissioners' 3rd report (1836); history of population statistics from 1672; Archbishop of Dublin's views on emigration. Question of state support of R.C. clergy. Correspondence: JR.; Lords Mulgrave, Melbourne, Morpeth, Campbell; T. Drummond; Col. W. Verner; H. Warburton; Col. J. Shaw Kennedy; Archbishop of Dublin; George Nicholls; cabinet ministers. Colonial affairs: Canada: Lower Canada affairs: list of House of Commons motions; Colonial Office report (1837 Nov. 2). Defence: JR's proposals for administrative reform of the army. Capt. A. Grant Carmichael, late 25th Infantry, petitions the Queen for support; his correspondence from 1803-12 with Edward Duke of Kent and others. Education: William Allen's plan for agricultural schools; he requests the Queen's patronage of the British and Foreign Schools Society. Personal: JR's gift (in 1821) of £200 in trust for Thomas Moore's second son. Correspondence: Longman & Co., Paternoster Row.

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Topics

International

Labour

Army

Migration

Tithes

Democracy

Population

Ireland

Debt

Poverty

Americas

Personal and family papers