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 Sirmur [Nahan] State - report on Sirmur by the Superintendent of Hill States [Lord William Hay] - the young Raja [Shamsher Parkash] is entrusted with the management of the state, (with associated correspondence)
Notification to the Princely States of Northern India of the Royal Proclamation transferring the government of India to the Crown - reports on the public ceremonies held in celebration - complimentary letters from some of the Native Princes
The Chief Commissioner of Mysore [Lieut General Sir Mark Cubbon] pays tribute to the good conduct of the Raja of Mysore [Krishna Raja Wodeyar] during a disturbance in Mysore city in Jul 1858
List of the number of Indian vernacular copies made of the Royal Proclamation of Nov 1858 assuming the government of India, also printed copy of the Proclamation in English and printed copies of correspondence of the Governor General [Lord Canning] with the East India Company/India Office in Jun-Dec 1858 (with enclosures)
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