Papers relating to Central Asia - the Deputy Commissioner at Simla [Lord William Hay] reports that he has succeeded in obtaining the journal of the late Adolphe Schlagentweit who was murdered at Kashgar in 1857 - he has also come into possession of what is allegedly Schlagentweit's skull
Papers relating to British Burma - the districts of Tharrawaddy and Henzada in Lower Burma are combined into one district - consequent changes in the civil establishment
Mutiny papers relating to Nepal - report received from Nepal that the Nana Sahib is somewhere in the jungles north west of Butwal - demi-official correspondence between Edward Clive Bayley and Thomas Douglas Forsyth regarding sending Ram Singh into Nepal to look for the Nana
Letter from HM Foreign Secretary [Lord Russell] to HM Secretary of State for India [Sir Charles Wood] communicating the rules to be observed in the British overseas possessions with respect to vessels of either of the two sides in the American Civil War
Papers regarding the ex-Amirs of Sind - intention of Muhammad Ali Khan, one of the ex-Amirs, to return to Sind towards the end of the year 1861 - memorandum of John Pollard Willoughby on the allowances of the ex-Amirs and the lands to be granted to those ex-Amirs who return to Sind
Papers regarding the administration of Bharatpur State (Rajputana) - changes in the system of management - correspondence of the Agent in Rajputana [Colonel George St Patrick Lawrence] with the Political Agent in Bharatpur [Lieutenant Charles Kennedy Mackenzie Walter] - the Bharatpur Council of Regency to have three instead of seven members, etc.