Papers regarding Ratlam State, Vol 2 - report on the administration of the State, by the Superintendent, Mir Shahamat Ali (with appendices, and associated correspondence)
Explanation of the Government of India as to why they appointed J T Wheeler of the Uncovenanted Service to be Assistant Secretary in the Foreign Department
Papers regarding the administration of Kathiawar - question of the extent of British jurisdiction over the Kathiawar States - question whether Kathiawar is to be regarded as British territory etc. (includes, on p 107, a genealogical table of the shareholders of Jaitpore and Bhilka)
Murder of an American missionary, the Reverend Levi Janvier, at Anandpur in Hoshiarpur District, on 24 Mar 1864, by an Akali Sikh called Bhag Singh (Vol 1)
Proceedings of the trial of Bhag Singh, by the Sessions Court at Hoshiarpur, for the murder of the Reverend Levi Janvier - he is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging, (Vol 2)
Papers regarding the Straits Settlements - arrival of the ex-Sultan of Linga in Pahang - the Governor of the Straits Settlements warns the Bandahara of Pahang that he (the Bandahara) is responsible for the ex-Sultan's good conduct while the latter is within his territories
A marriage offering and a congratulatory address from the people of Benares to the Prince and Princess of Wales are forwarded to England on the steamer Nemesis (a description of the presents appears on p 11)
The Maharaja of Benares [Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh] sends a congratulatory address and some Persian verses to Queen Victoria on the occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark (copies of the address and the verses (with English translation) appear on pp 4-11)
Further papers regarding the encroachments of the Dutch on the East Coast of Sumatra - correspondence of the Raja of Assahan and the Temenggong of Batu Basra with the Resident Councillor at Penang [Colonel Macpherson]