Confidential; will decline to enter into communication with Commodore (later Admiral Sir) J Plumridge (Acting C-in-C, East Indies station) on basis of latter's very extraordinary communication to Dalhousie; asks for Hobhouse's instructions.
Communications with Lahore have been interrupted but an express from Currie of 22 June reports that on 18 June Edwardes and Nawab of Bahawalpur have defeated Mulraj's troops in 9 hour engagement; if Edwardes takes Multan he will deserve high praise; encloses copy of letter to Queen.
Quotes letter from Currie asserting disaffection in Punjab is virtually universal and expatiating on mutual hatreds among Sikh leaders; very large reduction made by Lahore Durbar in Maharani's pension which Dalhousie sees no reason to alter.
Little to say this post because he is in transit; Sir H Maddock (senior member of Governor-General's Council) has returned and assumed Presidency of Council and Deputy Government on Dalhousie's departure.
Report just received indicates outrage at Multan much more serious than first thought; Currie's troop dispositions; hopes knowledge of them alone will be enough to restore situation; Dalhousie has no inclination to make this incident an excuse to pick quarrel with the State but will not shrink from ...
Refers to Hobhouse's letter of 4 March; clarifies why Currie rather than John Lawrence sent to Lahore in Henry Lawrence's absence; all quiet there and elsewhere; Hyderabad affairs; Satara: - ex-Raja's affairs, death of Raja and his adoption of boy 'of his own blood', and Dalhousie's intention to tre...
Letters from persons in India. Principal correspondents: John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, legislative member of the Supreme Council; Lord Dalhousie; Lord Falkland, Governor of Bombay; Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice, Calcutta; Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of Madras. Index of correspondents. [Former...