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

PRO 30/22/9D

1851 June 1-July 31

VOL. 9D Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics and government: Jewish Disabilities and David Salomon's unsuccessful attempt to take his seat: legal questions and definitions; question of abjuration of oath; Archbishopof Canterbury feels "worse inclined towards the Jewish cause than ever" (fs. 259-60). Board of Health: question of intramural burial. Exchequer appointments. Post Office: question of transport of mails to the pottery towns. Financing of Covent Garden improvements. Royal Academy of Arts: question of accommodation for a school of design. Correspondence: Lords Campbell, Monteagle, Clanricarde; Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir C. Wood; J. G. Phillimore; David Salomon; C. S. Lefevre; Bishop of London; Sir C. Eastlake and others. Legal: question of appointment of judges by statute. Chancery court legislation and reform. Question of appointment of Lord Privy Seal (see also Scotland). Lord Brougham's pressure for his brother's promotion: Lord Truro considers that "he (Brougham) is half mad upon the subject" (fs. 117-18). County courts legislation: judges' doubts. Offer to Sir T. Wilde (Lord Truro) of Great Seal (letter of 1850). Correspondence: J.R.; Lords Truro, Brougham, Denman and others. Scotland: history of office of Keeper, Privy Seal (fs. 45-50). Question of loans for emigration. Correspondence: Lord Dunfermline; Sir G. Grey; Sir J. McNeill. Ireland: drafting of census forms. Correspondence: Sir G. Grey. Foreign affairs: Report on agriculture in France and Belgium (fs. 255-8). Correspondence: James Caird. Foreign affairs: Florence: death of envoy R. Lalor Sheil and question of his successor. Foreign affairs: South America: relations with Brazil; navigation of Panama; River Plate port. Foreign affairs: France, Spain and Portugal: inter-relationships and Lord Palmerston's views "..... I wish to conciliate Narvaez" (fs. 97-8); he considers that Portugal must be neutral - "..... the Tagus (is) as important to England as Plymouth" (fs. 135-8). Foreign affairs: Sardinia: question of a London loan for railway construction. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston; Sir F. Baring; Hon. R. Abercromby. Colonial affairs: Cape of Good Hope (Cape Colony): question of a draft constitution and fresh letters patent. Lord Grey's antagonism to existing legislature. Lord Derby's motion to grant representative institutions at the Cape. Colonial affairs: Ionian Is.: Lord Charles Fitzroy's complaint against Governor Ward (fs. 83-4). Lord Grey wonders "whether we ought not to ..... get rid of these islands except Corfu" (fs. 200-3). Colonial affairs: Canada: R. W. Grey raises question of pensions to two officials (Daly and Rylands). Lord Grey's opinion of Ara Witney - "a good specimen of a Yankee" (fs. 163-4). Ecclesiastical: question of honours for colonial clergy: J.R. considers that "the CB would (not) be an appropriate distinction for a clergyman" (fs. 121-2). Ecclesiastical Titles bill (1851): Lord Lansdowne's views (fs. 196-9). Episcopal estates legislation: Bishop of London defends his actions. Diocese of Durham affairs. Correspondence: J.R.; Lords Grey, Lansdowne, Blandford; Bishops of London, Durham; Revd. W. J. Whiting. Education. Cambridge university: question of obligations under patent of Professor of Modern History. Question of Irish school books supply. Correspondence: Sir James Stephen; Hon. Sidney Herbert.

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