VOL. 4D Summary of Contents. Political and personal correspondence. Parliament and...

VOL. 4D Summary of Contents. Political and personal correspondence. Parliament and government administration: whigs move towards formation of a Government; apply parliamentary pressure. Lord Melbourne's illness and JR's leadership. Opposition to Peel budget. Corn laws: speculation on Tory moves; question of rate of duty. Jews disabilities: proposed legislation. Composition of House of Lords. Poor Law abuse: Lord William Russell's report on a Bucks village. Lord Palmerston's correspondence: his views on the slave trade and France; Lord Ellenborough and India; Lord Howick's "ultra free trade doctrines" [fs. 36-40]; Irish affairs; metropolitan police etc. Considers emigration not to be a remedy for over-population and unemployment. Correspondence: JR; Joseph Parkes; Lords Clarendon; Howick; Brougham; Campbell; Lansdowne; Aberdeen; Ashley; David Salomons; H. Tufnell; Charles Greville; H.G. Ward. Legal: prison reform and transportation. Lord Wharncliffe's plea for Pentonville men not to be sent to Tasmania (Van Diemens hand). Defence: Duke of Wellington's memorandum (Sept. 1845). Ireland: Daniel O'Connell and repeal. Questions of franchise; payment of R.C. clergy and the Pope's attitude; appointment of a Catholic chancellor; railways; land tenure; education. Bishop of Meath denies bigotry, among Irish bishops. Divisions on Maynooth bill. Correspondence: JR; Lords Bessborough, Palmerston, Duke of Leinster D.O'Connell; D.R. Pigot; Bishop of Meath and others. Foreign affairs: France: danger of war over right of ships' search. Guizot's standing. British naval dispositions. Correspondence: Lords Minto, Palmerston and others. Foreign affairs: Italy: Lord Aberdeen denies knowledge of Bandiera brothers' expedition from Corfu. Education: schools in Covent Garden; national schools. Correspondence: Lords Kinnaird, Palmerston. Royal household: staff appointments. Personal: JR's Edinburgh Review articles: Correspondence: MacVey Napier, editor Personal: Thomas Moore to write Revd Sydney Smith's life; JR's interest. Correspondence: Mrs Catherine Smith, widow. Personal: Bedford Papers: correspondence: Sir Denis Le Marchant Personal: Deaths of Lords Grey and Spencer. Death of Lady Holland: JR her executor.

Topics

Government finances

International

Labour

Railways

Trade and commerce

Migration

Religions

Europe and Russia

Slavery

Australia and Pacific

Population

Race relations

Ireland

Navy

Poverty

Prisons

Personal and family papers