VOL. 8C Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics...

VOL. 8C Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics and government: J.R. decides against"extensive parliamentary reform" (fs. 81-2). Henry Tufnell's replacement at the Treasury. Corn: radicals' drive for a fixed duty opposed by J.R. and Sir Robert Peel. New cemeteries (act of Aug. 1850): Sir G. Grey has doubts on domestic intrusion of health officers. 1851 Exhibition. Members of Prince Albert's commission named. Draft invitation to serve. Politics and government: Correspondence: J.R; J. E. Elliot; H. Tufnell; H. Labouchere; R. A. Slaney; T. Buller; Lord Cottenham; Sir G. Grey; Sir C. Wood. Defence: Navy: question of French percussion shell. Question of decline in naval discipline and type of officer recruited. Correspondence: Sir F. Baring; Sir C. Wood. Admiral Sir Charles Napier censured by J.R. for his public allegations against Lord Auckland's administration. Defence of sea coasts and dock yards: Lord Palmerston's views. Defence: Army: estimates; proposed reductions. Medals for medical officers. Correspondence: J.R; Duke of Wellington; Lord Grey. Ireland: barracks; fisheries. Land registration and encumbered estates: legal aspects of legislation. Correspondence: Sir C. Wood; Lord Clanricarde; Sir J. Romilly and others. Scotland: paper on national education. Foreign affairs: Austria, Prussia and Schleswig Holstein: fears of Prussian aggression; question of principle of dualism. Foreign affairs: Austria, Prussia and Schleswig Holstein: Decision to recall Lord Ponsonby and close British mission in Vienna. Correspondence: J.R; Sir C. Wood; Lords Palmerston, Ponsonby. Foreign affairs: Russia and Turkey: continued tension. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston. Foreign affairs: Greece: the"Don Pacifico" affair: Sir F. Baring objects to the constant use of his ships in support of Lord Palmerston's diplomacy. Queen's displeasure with Lord Palmerston. Sir Henry Ward reports from Corfu on British naval reluctance to blockade the Adriatic. Foreign affairs: Rome: Cardinal Fornari's complaint relating to Lord Minto's mission. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston; J. Abel Smith. Colonial affairs: Lord Grey and Henry Labouchere disagree over proposed appointment of Sir J. Stephen to Colonial Office and on other matters. Colonial affairs: Ceylon: Lord Torrington considers he has been"brutally and unjustly attacked" (fs. 1-2). Lord Grey questions legality of the courts martial and other measures imposed by the governor. Colonial affairs: Cape of Good Hope: question of expansion beyond Orange River: Lord Grey has doubts but J.R. approves of governor, Sir Harry Smith's policy of frontier extension. Proposals for representative government and a new constitution. Colonial affairs: Canada: commercial and political unrest; movement to secede to the States. Correspondence: J.R; Lords Elgin, Grey. Colonial affairs: New South Wales: Lord Grey reports that despite"all the outcry" against convict ships, convicts are hired by colonists in preference to free immigrants (fs. 91-2). Colonial affairs: Ionian Is.: Sir Henry Ward's reforms. Colonial affairs: Malta: question of Neapolitan refugees. Correspondence: Lord Grey. Ecclesiastical: appointments and royal patronage. Lord Harrowby's plan for reform of Ecclesiastical Commission; composition of estates committee. Correspondence: J.R; Lords Fortescue, Carlisle, Cottenham, Harrowby; Col. C. B. Phipps; Sir G. Grey; R. Vernon Smith; Archbishop of Canterbury and others. Legal: appointments; resignations; promotions. Correspondence J.R; Sir G. Grey; Lords Denman, Cottenham, Brougham; H. Tufnell. Royal family: request for increase of allowances arising from death of Queen Adelaide. Prince Albert's memoranda (1849 Dec-1850 Jan) forwarded to J.R. by the Queen. Prince Albert's claim to a higher allowance for himself and the children. J.R. advises the Queen that".... the present temper of the House of Commons and the country is averse to such a proposition" (fs. 189-94). Personal: Lord Cosmo Russell's illness in Corfu.

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