VOL. 9A Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics...

VOL. 9A Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics and government: London: question of Finsbury Park land purchase; progress of Marble Arch building; question of water supply. Scotland: question of relief for potato disease in the west. Poor Law Board: retirement of Sir G. Nicholls; Lord Ebrington's resignation; appointment of Lord Courtenay. Treasury Secretaries: reduction in salary to £2000; J.R. regrets that "all that's Bright must fade" (fs. 250-1). Agriculture: question of tax relief and rates and rents; position of tenant farmers. Life peerages: the Queen considers them to be "most desirable" (fs. 232-5). W. E. Gladstone on income tax (letter of 1853, fs. 210-11). Correspondence: J.R.; Sir G. Grey; Sir C. Wood; the Queen; Henry Rich; Edwin Chadwick; Lords Seymour, Ebrington, Courtenay. Legal. Court of Chancery: administrative changes and staffing. Proposed appointment of a cabinet lawyer without judicial duties. Proposed division of Lord Chancellor's office. Correspondence: Sir G. Grey; Sir J. Romilly; Lords Grey, Truro. Defence: Navy: Sir F. Baring's views concerning Sir Francis Head's book "The Defenceless State of Great Britain" (1850); he offers to resign. Defence measures against French naval attack. Naval administration: the better payment and feeding of the seamen considered by Sir F. Baring to be "the great grey question" (fs. 26). He is not impressed with the Harris invention. Question of retirement of aged officers. Defence: Army: Lord Grey's proposals for unified departmental control on naval lines; his poor opinion of the senior commanders. Ireland: question of abolition of lord lieutenancy. Poor Law administration. Correspondence: Lords Grey, Carew. Ecclesiastical: Church of England affairs: Bishop of Oxford's appointments; his "earnest desire to exclude (anyone) tainted with a Romanizing leaven" (fs. 51-2). Views of G. C. Lewis and Lord Ashley on Tractarian doctrine. Question of rank and precedence of colonial bishops. Welsh ordinands: question of knowledge of English; value of Lampeter College instruction. Question of public access to Westminster Abbey monuments. Correspondence: Bishops of Oxford, St. Davids, Durham, Llandaff; Sir B. Hall; Revd Lord John Thynne; Lord Ashley; Prof. Sedgwick; G. C. Lewis. Ecclesiastical: Roman Catholic affairs: Attorney General's views on Ecclesiastical Titles bill (Aug. 1851) (fs. 252-5). Question of British mission to the Vatican. Prince Albert's memorandum on anti-catholic agitation (fs. 75-8). "..... the Holy Father is ..... surrounded by Irishmen of the most rabid opinions" (anon. fs. 89-95) Lord Palmerston considers that the Pope's actions have "given mortal offence to the English People" (fs. 176-8). Intervention of Lord Edward Howard; his meetings in Paris with Cardinal Fornari, J. Abel Smith and others. Correspondence: Lords Lansdowne, Minto, Edward Howard, Palmerston; Sir G. Seymour; Chisholm Anstey; Prince Albert; C. K. Kemys Tynte; E. Chadwick; G. C. Lewis Foreign affairs: France and Italy: British suspicion of Louis Napoleon's designs on Savoy. French politics and attitude to roman catholic affairs in England. Lord Palmerston's support for Garibaldi to be conditional on his attitude to the roman catholic question. Correspondence: Lords Minto; Normanby, Palmerston; E. Ellice and others. Foreign affairs: China: question of British residence within Treaty (of Nanking) ports. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston. Colonial affairs: Jamaica: funds for relief of distress arising from cholera epidemic. Correspondence: Lord Grey. Colonial affairs: Ceylon: Committee of Enquiry proceedings. Correspondence: Lords Grey, Torrington. India: Lord Dalhousie approves proposal for Manchester delegate to advise on cotton growing. Education: Cambridge University: question of appointment of Downing Prof. of Medicine. Correspondence: Lord Monteagle; W. G. Hayter; Archbishop of York. Personal: Late Lord Melbourne's correspondence: question of disposal. Personal: Publication problems of late Lord Holland's memoirs. Personal: Correspondence: J.R.; Lords Melbourne, Holland; A. Panizzi.

Topics

International

Litigation

Religious discrimination and persecution

Taxation

Asia

Religions

Treaties and alliances

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Research

Resources

Ireland

Disease

Navy

Poverty

Farming

Personal and family papers