Papers regarding Gwalior State - favourable report by the Governor General [Lord Canning] on the conduct of Major Richard John Meade as Political Agent at Gwalior - report by Meade on the purging of mutinous elements from the Gwalior Army
Papers regarding the Bhutan Frontier - further acts of aggression by the Bhotias - Government of India decide to take possession of a tract of land on the western side of the Tista river which had previously been ceded to the the Bhutan Government
Papers regarding consular appointments - Bombay Government inform the Government of India that Ernest Waller, the Vice Consul for France at Karachi, is a member of a bankrupt firm
Government of India take strong exception to an article in the 'Poona Observer' of 18 Feb 1860 which stated that there was a mutinous conspiracy afoot among soldiers of the Indore Army in concert with sepoys of the 23rd Bombay Native Infantry - they describe the report as grossly exaggerated (a copy of the article appears on pp 11-15)
Reply of the Government of India to certain points in the Secretary of State for India's dispatch no 72 of 22 Dec 1859 - the list of Native Princes and their titles nears completion - further correspondence regarding the erection of an American Mission chapel at Sialkot next to a Government tahsili, etc.
The Governor General [Lord Canning] informs the Secretary of State for India that since he is about to leave Simla for Calcutta all future dispatches from England should be sent to Calcutta
Papers regarding the Mewar [Udaipur] Political Agency - removal from political employment of Captain Charles Lionel Showers, the Political Agent in Mewar, on account of his illegal seizure of the Nimbahera pargana (part of Tonk State) and other proceedings
Papers regarding the Straits Settlements (Vol 1) - foreign proceedings relating to Penang and Singapore for the fourth quarter of 1858 - petition of Muhammad Nurdu of Province Wellesley - rescue of an English and an American sailor by HMS Nankin - French and Spanish blockade of Turon in China - request of the Sultan of Sulu/Xolo for a second copy of the Sulu-English treaty - recruitment of coolies from Penang to work on the French island of Bourbon [Reunion] - case of Jean Baptiste d'Egremont...
Papers regarding the Straits Settlements (Vol 2) - foreign proceedings relating to Penang and Singapore for the third quarter of 1858 - correspondence with the Raja of Kedah - appointment of a consul for Hamburg at Penang - appointment of a consul for Prussia at Singapore - alleged misconduct of the agent of the Sultan of Johore, etc.etc.