Catalogue description VOL. 6F Summary of Contents. Mainly administrative correspondence and memoranda....

VOL. 6F Summary of Contents. Mainly administrative correspondence and memoranda. Politics and government: alarm at adverse balance of payments, diminishing reserves and high rates of interest. Lack of revenue from repeal of corn duty. Crisis: failures of northern and Scottish banks; manufacturers' distress; Bank of England deposits withdrawn. Navigation Laws: proposed repeal. Poor Law Board: administrative changes. Politics and government: Peerages: disagreement on conferment between J.R. and Lord Westminster. Strafford earldom: the Queen decides in favour of Lord Strafford. Sir Charles Wood's views on Westminster bridge and museum of Economic Geology. Botanical gardens: Sir William Hooker's views on staffing of colonial gardens. Correspondence: J.R; Sir C. Wood; F. Baring; Sir G. Larpent; H. Labouchere; Sir W. Hooker and others. Defence: of Channel Is.; harbours of refuge; breakwaters. Arms and "other Warlike Stores": returns (fs. 230-1); problem of stored gunpowder. Defence: Army: J.R's memorandum on raising of a militia force. Augmentation of Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers: returns. Correspondence: J.R; Duke of Wellington; Sir C. Wood; Lords Auckland, Palmerston, Anglesey. Ireland: finance; honours for relief commissioners; Sir J. Burgoyne's plan for an Irish militia. Lord Clarendon reports unrest and disturbance. C. E. Trevelyan's reports from Dublin. Landlord and tenant legislation. Memorial of Catholic prelates. Foreign affairs: France and Spain: Lord Palmerston considers that " .... we have beat the French at Madrid for the present" - (fs. 73-6). Correspondence: Lords Palmerston, Normanby; H. L. Bulwer. Italy: Sardinia: instructions to Ralph Abercromby to negotiate with the King. Austria, Piedmont and the Minto mission: Lord Minto reports from Turin and Florence. Rome: Dr. Wiseman's visit. Switzerland: Lord Palmerston's views on Swiss neutrality; he considers it is essential to contain " .... War loving Cantons" (fs. 176-9). U.S.A. - U.K. postal convention. Correspondence: Sir C. Wood. Ecclesiastical: appointment of Revd. J. P. Lee to new see of Manchester.