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VOL. 6H Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics...
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- 1847 Dec. and various undated papers.
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VOL. 6H Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics and government: finance: S. Gurney's statement of treasury bill discount rates 1824-47. Bank of England reduces interest rates. Exchequer income 1845-47. Sugar Duties Act, 1846: Lord George Bentinck's motion for relief for colonial planters. Poor Relief Act (England) 1847: division figures, 2nd reading; appointment of Charles Buller as chief commissioner. Improvement of Towns Act 1847: comment; alarm at number of clauses. Correspondence: Sir C. Wood; E. Ellice; Lords Monteagle, Morpeth; Sir G. Grey and others. Legal: Lord Campbell's own request to succeed as Chancellor. Resignation of Solicitor General. Oaths legislation. Defence: review of relative naval strength of France and England. Defence of ports and dockyards. Inauguration of coast-guard service. Defence estimates. Heads of a militia bill. Correspondence: Lords Auckland, Palmerston; Capt. Houston Stewart; Fox Maule and others. Ireland: landlord and tenant legislation; the franchise. Police reports from co. Wexford. Lord Clarendon's state of the country review (Dec. 27). Irish peerages: legal opinion. Correspondence: Lords Lansdowne, Bessborough, Clarendon, Clanricarde; J. F. Kennedy; Sir G. Grey; Sir W. Somerville; Sir D. Dundas and others. Ecclesiastical: appointment of Dr. Hampden to diocese of Hereford: doubts on his orthodoxy; doctrinal ferment of bishops; memorial from 13 and J.R's reply. Dean of Hereford's grievances and J.R's draft reply (Dr. Hampden elected Dec. 28). Correspondence: J.R.; Duke of Bedford; Dr. R. D. Hampden; Bishops of Ripon, Durham, Exeter, Oxford, London and signatories to memorial; Archbishop of Canterbury; Lords Cottenham, Fortescue; Sir G. Grey; Sir J. Tyrell and others. Foreign affairs: Switzerland: appointment of a minister. Correspondence: Lords Palmerston; Normanby. Royal Household: question of appointment of a physician for Scotland. correspondence: Sir James Clark. Education: Cambridge university: Revd. H. Philpott to Revd. R. Phelps (vice Chancellors) on need for change in courses and range of studies. Personal: J.R. - "Sermons for my children" (f.338).
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