VOL. 6C Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence and memoranda....

VOL. 6C Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence and memoranda. Politics and government: fiscal policy; interest rates. Correspondence: Sir C. Wood; J. Horsley Palmer. Royal household: appointees to support government of the day; resignation of Lord Morley. Duke of Wellington's statue: Lord Morpeth proposes new broad walk in Kensington Gardens as a site. British Museum: Lord Aberdeen's proposal for a new constitution; list of possible members of a commission. Ireland: Lord Bessborough's illness and death (correspondence not in date order); question of a successor; appointment of Lord Clarendon. Proposal to suspend public works and employment returns; provision of temporary hospitals under fever legislation. J.R. on crop rotation and animal production. Memorandum of expenditure under Irish Drainage Act, 5 & 6 Vict. C.89. Legislative proposals for Irish colleges; charitable bequests. Legal appointments. Pope Pius IX's letter to Irish archbishops. Correspondence: J.R; Lords Bessborough, Ponsonby, Clarendon, Morpeth, Lansdowne, Clanricarde, Stanley; Duke of Leinster; H. Labouchere; T. Redington; C. Gore; Bessborough family. Defence: fears of war with France. Naval dispositions; conversion of merchant ships; despatch of marines; war equipment and supplies. Correspondence: Lords Palmerston, Auckland, Ellesmere, Normanby, Anglesey; Duc de Broglie; Duke of Wellington. Navy: Harris plan for protection of ships. Restoration of Lord Dundonald's honours. Correspondence: Lord Auckland; Admiral Cockburn. Army: question of the militia bill; period of service and increase of soldiers' pensions. Correspondence: Duke of Wellington; Fox Maule; Lord Grey. Foreign affairs: Portugal: Lord Palmerston's policy and his offer of resignation over the Croft affair. U.S.A.: question of legislative action against pauper immigration. Correspondence: George Bancroft. Colonial affairs: Canada: Lord Elgin's successful administration; he receives the Thistle. India: Lord Palmerston's views on relations of Crown and East India Company. Lord Hardinge's state of the country report (Apr.20); defences of N.W. frontier against Russian - Afghan menace; Punjab situation; trade with China. Ecclesiastical: Welsh sees; deaneries of Salisbury and Wells; new bishoprics; list of bishops opposed to new legislation. Colonial bishoprics. Correspondence: Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishops of Durham and Lincoln; Sir Charles Wood and others. Legal: High Court of Chancery: motion to form a commission of inquiry. Education: Wesleyan discontent. Statement on religious instruction in French schools. Question of R.C. schools. Correspondence: J.P. Kay-Shuttleworth and others. Personal: J.R's stepdaughters' allowances. Correspondence: William Robinson.

Topics

International

Labour

Army

Trade and commerce

Asia

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Ireland

Construction industries

Museums and galleries

Navy

Poverty

Royal Parks

Americas

Operations, battles and campaigns

Personal and family papers