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91. Mss Eur F231/13/43

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/13/43
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Question of conferring Admiralty jurisdiction upon Indian courts; as regards question of amalgamation of jurisdictions, Canning has no objection to Vernon Smith legislating on that in Parliament; progress on Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure and Penal Code; Peacock's hard work on latter; slow...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

92. Mss Eur F231/8, f26

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f26
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Canning's letter of 22 April (2); Panmure rejects proposal to substitute Company for Queen's two cavalry regiments so that economy will be impossible; if Persia does not evacuate Herat, Canning should prepare for war but take no aggressive step without distinct instructions from home...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

93. Mss Eur F231/8, f41

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f41
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Urges Canning to get Legislative Council to enact as much of Law Commission's recommendations as possible as Sir J Jervis (Chief Justice of Common Pleas) and Robert Lowe (Whig politician) are highly critical of Vernon Smith for not acting on its work without reference to India; slow progress on W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item

94. Mss Eur F231/8, f52

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f52
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Orders have been sent to start Persian expedition to seize Bushire and Kharaq; is urging Elphinstone to active commissariat preparations should objects be extended to Shiraz, but agrees with Canning difficulties begin there; Dost Muhammad should be encouraged to attack Persia; Clerk thinks 10,000...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1856
Extent:
1 item

95. Mss Eur F231/8, f55

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f55
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Thinks despatch of English officers to Herat would be feasible (extraordinary lack of news from there), but otherwise agrees with Canning's letter of 22 August; important that Dost Muhammad understands he is being helped to expel Persians from Herat, but not to install himself who has no right to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1856
Extent:
1 item

96. Mss Eur F231/8, f68

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f68
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Canning's letter of 23 October; plans for Persian expedition; orders sent to Canning to send force to Shuster [sc Shushtar] which will require no more troops than force originally proposed before Canning's reduction; Cabinet puzzled by latter; if Canning is really pressed, suggests t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

97. Mss Eur F231/8, f73

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f73
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Canning's letter of 22 November; anxieties in England that insufficient force sent to Persia; Vernon Smith hopes Canning is continually sending reinforcements according to authority sent by Secret Committee's letter of 24 November; Russians suspected of covert support for Persia; agr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item

98. Mss Eur F231/8, f103

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f103
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Discusses, and asks Canning's opinion on question of increasing Indian establishment of Queen's troops to be able to repress revolts among Indian troops and defend extended territories; Duke of Cambridge (C-in-C, British Army) hears constantly from officers of apprehensions of discontent among na...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1857
Extent:
1 item

99. Mss Eur F231/8, f155

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/8, f155
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Comments on Havelock; chief value of honours for him and others was their speedy announcement and Vernon Smith therefore overcame some opposition to granting them; asks for information to deal with criticisms of failure to provide steam or gun boats on Ganges, and inconsistency in first refusing ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1857
Extent:
1 item

100. Mss Eur F231/9, f1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/9, f1
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Written from Aden; better barracks being built for European [but not Indian] troops which will forestall criticism of 'our present treatment of white flesh and blood'; criticises past policy towards Arabs, and current blockade of Berbera on African coast which probably harms those innocent of rec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1856
Extent:
1 item