[Refers to Argyll's letter of 24 August]; agrees that Temple's unpopularity is unfair and Mayo will suggest only an honourable means of his leaving Council; he is unlikely to accept Lt-Governorship of Bengal; agrees with Argyll that main safeguard in finance is to keep expenditure below income, b...
Refers to Argyll's letter of 25 August and encloses note by (Sir) E C Bayley on reports of unrest from Mr Fenwick; any real reduction in Native Army opposed by Napier; affairs in Afghanistan very threatening and may interfere with Goldsmid's mission; pleased at telegram stating India is to receiv...
Failure of Forsyth's mission to open trade route to Yarkand; Goldsmid will move towards Kerman for Baluchistan frontier arbitration if he cannot proceed to Sistan
Temple unlikely to give up present post for any other; Durand's views on Fenwick and his eports of unrests; encloses newspaper report on his tour to Rajputana; failure of Maharaja of Jodhpur, because he was not given equal precedence with the Rana of Udaipur, to attend Durbar an insult to the Vic...
[cf Argyll's letter to Mayo of 6 October 1870]; castigates Wilson and Europeans like him who spread false reports of disaffection – Lord Salisbury could do good service by replying very sharply to Wilson; encloses papers on the panic at Allahabad including an assessment of Wilson; has been testin...
Conduct of Maharaja of Jodhpur and how it should be punished, possibly by degradation from Order of Star of India [Note implication that Viceroy can order attendance of feudatory chiefs in Durbar]; Jodhpur State is in anarchy, Maharaja 'is plunged in drunkenness and vice', and something will soon...
Encloses copy of his letter to Sir Stafford Northcote (ex-Secretary of State for India and Conservative spokesman in Commons) outlining at length his opposition to establishing a Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry on India – wants it shown to Gladstone before latter makes up his mind; situation i...