Three memoranda compiled by Chaloner Alabaster, late interpreter attached to the Ex-Imperial Chinese Commissioner Yeh, viz:- 1) on education in China, pp 4-10, 2) on relations between China and Tibet, pp 11-13, 3) on Cochin China, pp 17-23; (with associated correspondence)
Papers regarding Singapore - alleged withdrawal from the Foreign Consuls at Singapore of the judicial authority hitherto exercised by them over their own nationals - case of the Consul for Hamburg
Appointments of Lieutenant Edward Hanson Paske and Charles Umpherston Aitchison as Personal Assistants to the Financial Commissioner and Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab respectively
Papers regarding British Burma - disturbance caused by a religious impostor called Nga Shwe Hla and his followers at Twante near Rangoon - his subsequent capture by a British military detachment
Statement of the military services of the Political Agent at Gwalior [Major Samuel Charters Macpherson], during the late Mutiny - his entitlement to the Mutiny Medal - also a supplementary return of native civilians who bore arms against the mutineers at the siege of Lucknow; (with associated correspondence)
Correspondence of the Madras Government regarding the movements in Arabia of Syed Fazl, the exiled Tangal of the Malabar Moplahs - efforts made by HM Commissioner at Jeddah to persuade the Turkish Authorities to hand him over to the British
Various foreign consular appointments, viz:- the Sardinian Vice Consul in Akyab, the Consuls for Spain, Oldenburg and the United States at Singapore, the Vice Consul for the Netherlands at Calcutta,