VOL. 7F Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics...

VOL. 7F Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics and government: railways: Lord Lansdowne proposes issue of exchequer bonds to finance four main lines "to improve the temper in which all classes are at present" (fs.3-6). Question of insolvent MPs. House of Lords: doubts on passage of navigation laws repeal bill; J.R. to Prince Albert on life peerages (June 19). Sir C. Trevelyan's review of Treasury commissariat branch. Board of Health: question of a paid commissioner. Correspondence: J.R; Lords Lansdowne, Ashley, Carington, Minto, Holland, Brougham, Dunfermline; Duke of Grafton; Sir C. Trevelyan and others. Ireland: unsigned memorandum containing proposals to combat the "perpetually recurring Irish Question" (fs.103-9). Land and rate-in-aid legislation. National education: letter (litho) from Maria Edgeworth to J.R. Corballis (fs.158-63). Question of religious freedom. Proposed Dublin-Galway railway. Correspondence: J.R; D. O'Connell; Lords Lansdowne, Palmerston, Clanricarde; T. Redington; Sir W. Somerville; Sir J. Romilly; E. Ellice; James Martin; Sir C. Wood. Scotland: current legislation on marriage registration and lunacy considered by Lord Kinnaird to be "obnoxious to the people of Scotland" (fs.382-4). Foreign affairs: Italy: Austria and Piedmont: defeat and abdication of Charles Albert; uneasy truce; question of reparations. Mediation: proposal for a second Congress of Europe (modifications to Treaty of Vienna 1815); Lord Palmerston's views. Lord Minto considers that the restoration of the Pope and the Grand Duke of Tuescany should not be "effected by Austrian Bayonets" (fs.140-1). Foreign affairs: Italy: Naples and Sicily: continued British support of Sicily. Correspondence: Lords Palmerston, Minto; Sir F. Baring. Foreign affairs: Austria and Russia: Lord Palmerston considers that Austria "holds on to Russia" (fs.148-151); Lord Lansdowne fears that Russia has "designs ...... on the Danubian provinces" (fs.173-5). Foreign affairs: Russia and Turkey: early intimations of disagreement (fs.44-6). Foreign affairs: Schleswig Holstein, Prussia and Denmark: Danish obduracy; proposed peace conference procedures; question of guarantor powers. Lord Palmerston's views on Prussian ascendency. Correspondence: J.R.; Lords Minto, Palmerston; Baron von Bunsen. Foreign affairs: Spain: continued estrangement. Lord Palmerston complains of Spanish equivocation. Foreign affairs: France: Lord Lansdowne on the need for a "perfect understanding with France" (fs. 173-5). Lord Londonderry on Prince Louis Napoleon (fs. 337-8). Foreign affairs: Case of Sir E. Lyons, recalled from Athens. Correspondence: J.R.; Lords Palmerston, Arundel. Foreign affairs: Lord Palmerston complains that the Queen "often keeps drafts a long time ..... when events are going at a Hand Gallop" (fs. 343-8). Colonial affairs: Canada: Lord Elgin's legislative problems; threat of political violence. Correspondence: Lord Grey; E. Ellice. Colonial affairs: Australian legislatures: Colonial office report (Mar. 29); Lord Grey on the draft constitution. Colonial affairs: Ceylon: Lord Torrington's administration censured by Parliament. Colonial affairs: Ionian Is.: H. G. Ward appointed governor; his first despatches from Corfu. India: victory in the Punjab; Lord Dalhousie on battle of Chillianwalla; his elevation to marquess. Lord Lansdowne on annexation. Honours and military distinctions; question of a military governor-general. Correspondence: J.R; Sir J. Hobhouse; Duke of Wellington; Lords Dalhousie, Lansdowne, Grey; Sir C. Wood. Ecclesiastical: reform legislation and procedures; jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Correspondence: Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishops of London, Durham.

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