Report received from Singapore that the French Government may be contemplating territorial annexations in the Gulf of Siam - the report is subsequently discounted
Assassination of Lieutenant Arthur Manaton Ommanney of the Guide Corps, at Mardan, on 3 Oct 1865, by an itinerant fakir called Dost Muhammad - the assassin is summarily tried and executed (includes transcript of the trial)
Papers regarding the Bhonsla Family of Nagpur - proposal of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces that the future position of Ahilaji Aherao should be decided in the lifetime of the latter's father, Trimbakji Nana Aherao, who has an income of 14,990 rupees 'per annum'
Memorial to the Secretary of State for India from Virji Lall Doss, complaining of the insufficiency of the award made to him by the Commissioners for the Maharaja of Mysore's debts and asking for his claim against the Maharaja to be reconsidered (with associated correspondence)
Government of India inform the Secretary of State for India that they have dispatched to London 10 copies of Vols 1 to 7 of C U Aitchison's 'Treaties, Engagements and Sanads relating to India and Neighbouring Countries' - 40 further copies and the indexes will follow
Government of India reverse their earlier decision and allow the elephant kheda establishment in Bilaspur District, Central Provinces, to continue in being until the end of March 1866
Further papers regarding the dacoities committed on the Allahabad/Rewah frontier - capture of Lalu Singh, one of the three ringleaders, at Amethi, in Sultanpur District, on 10 Oct 1865