Catalogue description VOL. 5A Summary of Contents. Political and personal correspondence. Politics and...

VOL. 5A Summary of Contents. Political and personal correspondence. Politics and government: Correspondence with past and future cabinet colleagues, junior ministers and MPs. Speculation, advice and comment leading to formation of a new Whig government.Lord Grey retracts his objections to joining. J.R's Glasgow speech. Passage of Corn Bill: Cobden's approval. Sugar supply and duties. Defeat and resignation of Peel government. Party divisions. Correspondence: J.R.; the Queen; Sir Robert Peel; Lords Palmerston, Grey; Charles Wood and others. Ireland: J.R. opposes coercion legislation. D.R. Pigot's reports. Case of Smith O'Brien. Partial failure of the potato crop. Poor Laws. R.C. prelates' views on the Irish colleges. Appointments of Lord Bessborough as Lord Lieutenant and Henry Labouchere as Chief Secretary. Lord George Bentinck's railway Scheme: I. K. Brunel's doubts; scheme abandoned. Correspondence: J.R.; H. Tufnell; Lords Bessborough, Clanricarde, George Bentinck, Clarendon, Monteagle; H. Labouchere; C. Wood; R. More O'Ferrall; G. Poulett Scrope and others. Foreign affairs: Spain and France: the Spanish marriages. Agreement on a Bourbon husband for the Queen of Spain. Correspondence: Lords Aberdeen, Palmerston, Normanby; Duc de Sotomayor. U.S.A. - Canada boundary: Lord Palmerston's views on Edward Everett as intermediary; the Oregon question. Ecclesiastical: J.E. Denison presses for reform of Ecclesiastical Commission. Holland House: Lord Holland's financial problems of upkeep. Personal: J.R. offered £50 for Edinburgh Review article. Letter from Lady Mary Abercromby to her sister (Lady J.R.) from Genoa (fs. 57-61). Lord William Russell's health. Praise and guidance to J.R. from Duke of Bedford.