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VOL. 4B Summary of Contents. Political correspondence relating mainly to change of...
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VOL. 4B Summary of Contents. Political correspondence relating mainly to change of government. Parliament and government administration: elections; price of votes; forecasts; results. Queen's speech: inclusion of pledge to revise corn, sugar and timber duties and to augment revenue to meet expenses of Canada, China and the Mediterranean. JR to Sir Robert Peel on intended course at re-opening of parliament; speculation respecting Peel's fiscal policy. JR's addresses to City of London electors. Correspondence with Lord Stanley on Colonial Office matters. Resignations. Lord William Russell recalled by Lord Aberdeen. Election of Speaker: question of a Tory; C.S. Lefevre re-elected. Queen's personal letter to JR. regretting fall of government; Lord Melbourne's letter to her praising Prince Albert. Civil List pensions: possible beneficiaries; JR thinks that "Wordsworth may as well be left to Sir Robert Peel" [fs. 62-3]. Lord Palmerston's views on extension of suffrage and the ballot. Whig's relations with Daniel O'Connell. T.B. Macaulay bored with politics. JR's memoranda on Poor Rate, tithes, property and income taxes. T.W. Buller's report on tithes commutation. Correspondence: JR; Sir Robert Peel; the Queen; Lords Aberdeen, Howick, Monteagle, Palmerston, Melbourne, William Russell, Charles Russell, Fortescue, Stanley, Morpeth; E. Ellice; Duke of Bedford; D. Le Marchant; C.S. Lefevre; C. Gore; F. Baring; T.B. Macaulay; T.W. Buller. Colonial affairs: Canada: legislation; finance; American boundary dispute. Resignation and death of Lord Sydenham; his dying tribute to JR - "the noblest man" [fs. 170-3]. Sir Charles Bagot succeeds as Governor General. Correspondence: JR; Lords Sydenham, Stanley; G. Poulett Scrope and others. Personal: Princess Lieven's letters to JR from Paris. JR receives freedom of Selkirk [document and seal] JR's marriage to Lady Frances (Fanny) Elliot: letters from well-wishers.
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