[Refers to Canning's letter of 18 March (1), and 20 March]; no complaints in Parliament regarding equipping of new European cavalry regiments; with approval of C-in-C has submitted request to Queen for three local Regiments to be styled 'Royal'.
Refers to Canning's letter of 22 April; is certain Montgomery's report will be published and any fresh document relating to Oudh proclamation of 1858 will be laid before Parliament; believes outline agreement on army question has been achieved; C-in-C gives up claim to command local forces in ret...
Refers to Canning's letters of 18, 20 and 21 March; Harris's case; has asked Lord Chancellor to bear in mind deserving Indian chaplains for promotion to English livings; broadly agrees with Canning's approach to compensation claims and has communicated his letter to Finance Committee of Council o...
Letter from Talbot to Lewin Bentham Bowring (Canning's Private Secretary)
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Encloses further letter from Capt Scot forwarding one from Mrs Jane Mawe (widow of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Mawe, 12th N.I) pleading for the Nawab of Banda who had saved her life.
Letter from Sir G Clerk (Secretary to Board of Control) to Canning
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Suggests Canning might find it worthwhile to see his son who has recently been attached to mission to Heart and is returning via Khorasan and Persia to India for information on those parts; Lord Stanley will probably be Ellenborough's successor [On 10 May Ellenborough resigned following the contr...