Explains Home Govt's position regarding reduction of European troops in India; suggests deciding on what model barracks should be, before embarking on heavy expenditure.
Rumuneration of Adjutant-General; Wood's refusal to accept officially approach from C-in-C, India, via Duke of Cambridge, and insistence it must go through Govt of India; gunnery instructors; thinks temporary dearness allowance should be paid to cavalry as well as infantry; problem of surplus art...
Neither Miss Nightingale nor Sanitary Commission in England should be in direct communication with Indian bodies; all communications from India should go through Governments in India to Secretary of State, and it is in interest of Govts in India and particularly Governor-General to observe this p...
Despatch is being sent on policy in Kathiawar; Wood not satisfied with it but does not 'know what to say better'; only Council members who know much about it are Willoughby (Political Agent, Kathiawar 1828-35) whose views are old fashioned, and Clerk; despatch reflects latter's views; has told pr...
Christmas and New Year good wishes; has told Mr Shields, promoter of scheme to provide wharf accommodation on Hooghly, to deal with authorities in Calcutta; rent question.
Acknowledges Lawrence's letters of 19 and 21 November; is glad to hear relations between Bombay Govt and Public Works Dept have improved; expression of disapprobation has been sent to Frere on his mode of going on; comments on Oudh, and on failure of various land settlements in the past which cau...
Emphasises that Mr Shields's plan for wharf accommodation on Hooghly is being sent privately without any implication that it has been approved by Home Govt.
[Refers to Lawrence's letters of 19 November (2) and 21 November]; organisation of Indian military high command; any important alteration in position of C-in-C, India, will agitate military men at home; difficulty of finding good men for that post; brevet rank should not have been given to retire...
Great care needed in legislating to enforce Maine's doctrine on enforcement of specific performance of contracts – 'care must be taken to prevent the ryots from falling into the state of dependence which prevailed 3 or 4 years ago; urges Lawrence not to shrink from abolishing Grand Juries – Law C...