Papers regarding the progress of steam communication at the three Presidencies - correspondence between the Government of India and the Government of Bombay - explanation as to why the Semiramis was ordered to transfer to the Bengal station, etc
Papers regarding the improvement of steam communication between India and Europe - correspondence between the Government of India and the Government of Bombay - arrangements for conveyance of the Indian mails, etc
Further correspondence of the Governments for India and Bombay regarding steam communication - abandonment 'pro tempore' of the plan for a steamship voyage direct from Calcutta to Suez
Rejection by the Government of India of Lieutenant John Campbell's plan for surveying the Coromandel Coast - the Marine Surveyor General [Captain Richard Lloyd] to undertake this duty instead
Letter, dated 8 May 1839, from Dr Henry Harpur Spry, Secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, to the Secretary of the East India Company, London, complaining of the high import duties imposed in the UK on tobacco and rum produced in India as compared with the duties impos...
Measures taken for the suppression of piracy in the Malay Archipelago - operations of the Royal Navy and the Indian Navy - trials of pirates - correspondence between the Government of India and the Dutch Government at Batavia - question of Dutch encroachment on the island of Lingga, etc
Manslaughter, on 21 Nov 1835, in the village of Nar, Petlad Pargana, Baroda State, of Tega Bhowan, a chaukidar, by Captain (later Major) John George Cherry Paul, 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry - Paul is subsequently court martialled, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to pay a fine of 1000 rupe...
Murder at Manbara, on the island of Timor, on 27 Feb 1836, of two British mariners, Captain Simmons, Master of the Kingsdown, and Samuel Edward Aldwell, carpenter of the Japan - dispatch of HM Sloop Victor, Captain Richard Crozier, to investigate the killings - his correspondence with the Portugu...