Canning has liver attack; C-in-C should not absent himself too much from seat of government – there is danger anybody in such position will set up as independent power; opposes practice of Govt departments writing against each other; agrees Police are less dangerous force than native army; milita...
Duke of Cambridge (C-in-C) will give Rose hint about making grievances; Cambridge thinks native army too large; Wood thinks native army and police together 'not much less than before the mutiny'; encloses memorandum by Lord Russell (in which he concurs) on limits of British obligation to Persia t...
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): Mysore case; majority of his Council think Raja must be restored; matter is suspended and Wood is 'not sorry to waste time about it, so as to take the chance of accidents' and is 'sadly puzzled between what seems to be our honest course and my wish to se...
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): explains opposition to appointment of Inspector General of Police; briefly states his position on control of Local Governments by Supreme Government.
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): his views on change of seat of Government; discusses question of new Finance Member of Elgin's Council and gives reasons for appointing Trevelyan; refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (1): confesses ignorance of Burmese affairs but, as in Afghanistan, a...
Question of Indian flag and when Elgin can fly it; Frere's complaints of inefficiency and jobbery in Telegraph Dept; memorials for covenanted and uncovenanted servants, and doctors; question of opening up Irrawaddy to navigation and trade – hopes Col (Sir) A Phayre's mission will clear ground; ad...
Refers to Elgin's letter of 5 January; many of Canning's measures crude; should be no difficulty in Govt of India making divorce law; Ghulam Muhammad; public opinion, apart from Manchester people, supports Wood's position on contract law; supports Elgin vis-à-vis C-in-C and again deprecates his a...
Refers to Elgin's letters of 20 and 23 January; comments on Trevelyan and on India's financial situation generally – Wood re-iterates need for economies and opposition to expenditure on barracks from cash balances intended for public works of utility; question of move of seat of government can ke...