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VOL. 15G Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics...
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PRO 30/22/15G
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1865 Nov. 1-30
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VOL. 15G Summary of Contents. Political and administrative correspondence. Politics and government. J.R. as prime minister. Cabinet changes: question of disposal of chancellorship, Duchy of Lancaster; minor appointments; honours. Queen's conditions for opening parliament in person (Gen. Grey, fs. 147-54). Reform: question of rating franchise. Cattle plague: Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth's combat proposals (fs. 118-19). Cinque ports: question of Lord Warden's right to wreck. Correspondence: J.R.; the Queen; Sir C. Wood; E. Cardwell; C. P. Villiers; W. E. Gladstone; W. E. Baxter; T. M. Gibson and others. Ireland: question of vacancies in post-Union peerages. Fenians: capture and later escape of James Stephens. Chichester Fortescue appointed chief secretary vice Sir Robert Peel. Correspondence: Lord Wodehouse. Foreign affairs: U.S.A.: proposed protest to U.S. government about Fenians. The Shenandoah affair and question of amendment of Foreign Enlistment Act (59 Geo.III C.69). Correspondence: Lord Clarendon; Sir R. Palmer. J.R's cabinet memorandum on neutrality (fs. 160-6). Foreign affairs: Austria: slow progress of commercial treaty and U.K. loan negotiations. Correspondence: Lord Bloomfield; R. Morier; L. Mallet. Foreign affairs: Prussia, Austria and Schleswig Holstein: Lord Napier regrets his wrong interpretation of Gastein convention decisions (fs. 38-41). Foreign affairs: Italy: political reports; question of revised commercial treaty with Austria. Correspondence: A. H. Layard; Lord Clarendon; Hon. H. Elliot. Rome: Odo Russell reports beginning departure of French troops from papal territories. Personal: J.R. regrets that his son William "cannot give time and attention to Dugald Stewart's moral philosophy"; he is grieved to hear of the "sceptical spirit among Cambridge undergraduates" (fs. 61-2). Charles Dickens's grateful thanks to J.R. for nomination of his son to a clerkship (fs. 86-7).
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