Mss Eur F699/1/2/2/179

Contains docketed sets of papers, numbered 6651 to 6700, consisting of correspondence, relating to applications for posts and other matters. These papers were originally included in one bundle of one hundred docketed sets of papers, labelled ‘No. 67 Private Secretary’s Correspondence, Nos. 6601 to 6700’. Each numbered set of papers usually consists of an original letter sent to the Private Secretary to the Governor General, or to the Governor General, a copy of the reply from the Private Secretary, Lewin Bentham Bowring, and any other papers. In addition, for each set of papers, either on the back of the original letter, or on a separate sheet of paper, is written the number of the set of papers, the year, the name of the writer of the original letter, the official position and location of the sender, the date the letter was despatched, the date it was received, the date it was answered, any cross references to other papers, and a brief summary of the letter. Numbers 6652, 6653, 6655, 6658, 6673, 6674, 6675, 6676, 6677, 6682, 6683, 6689, 6690, 6693, 6694, 6696, 6697, and 6700 have a red cross on them, to indicate that they ‘may be preserved’, whilst ‘the rest may be destroyed’.

6651. Jan 1860. Letter from Major G W Boileau, Division Commandant, Oudh Military Police, Seetapore. Applies for the appointment of Chief of Police in Oudh. Cover only. Endorsed. Transferred to Military Secretary

6652. Jan 1860. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel L Barrow, Compensation Commissioner, Lucknow. Asks if he has any chance of being employed again soon, now that his work is finished in Oudh. All is well in the Province and the Talookdars' powers are giving great satisfaction, notwithstanding the attacks of the 'Friend of India'. Copy of reply, he will hear further on the subject of his application. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6506

6653. Dec 1859 - Jan 1860. Letter from Mr R Temple, Commissioner of Lahore, Camp. Recommends Moolvee Rujjub Alee of Ingraon, who received some Jagheers partly in life tenure and partly in perpetuity and who is now anxious to get a portion of his life grant extended in perpetuity. Vernacular petition enclosed.

6654. Jan 1860. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel H Bruce, Chief of the Oudh Police, Lucknow. Returns thanks for his appointment to the China Force, suggests Major H D Taylor, 1st Madras Fusiliers, at present Bruce's Assistant, for the post of Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, China Force. Copy of reply, the Governor General will readily sanction the nomination of Taylor.

6655. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr A Cocks, Officiating Commissioner, Jubbulpore Division Camp, Nursinghore. Asks if he should apply to the Secretary of State through the Governor General or the Governor General direct for the Punjab Medal. The Jubbulpore Division is perfectly tranquil. Copy of reply, he should apply to the Secretary of State, as it would not do for the Governor General to reopen a question disposed of by his predecessor.

6656. Jan 1860. Letter from Dr H N Elton, Barrackpore. Applies for the office of Medical Storekeeper at Sealkote [Sialkot]. Letter no longer enclosed. Copy of reply, his letter has been transferred to the Military Secretary.

6657. Jan 1860. Copy of a letter to the Editor of the Indian Punch. Thanking him for a copy sent to the Governor General.

6658. Jan 1860. Copy of a letter to C Beadon Esquire, Secretary to Government Foreign Department with the Governor General Camp, Paniput. Sending him papers about Deposits lost during the Mutiny. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6363, 6376, 6454, 6572, 6573, 6616, 6628

6659. Jan 1860. Copy of a letter to Lieutenant A Callander, Post Office, Umballa. His papers have been transferred to the Military Secretary.

6660. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr W Fitzgerald, Chief Commissioner's Office, Lucknow. Sends a Memorial asking for employment or for a grant of land. Various enclosures about a wound pension. Copy of reply, he should apply to the local Governments. His enclosures are returned. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 4540, 4549, 4689

6661. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr C Wingfield, Chief Commissioner of Oudh Camp, Pertabghur. Sends a letter from Mr Harington about the termination of his engagement with the Telegraph Department and as the Governor General has agreed to Harington's appointment to the Oudh Commission has ordered him to Oudh. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6574

6666. Jan 1860. Letter from Captain H Howe, Secretary to the Superintendent of Marine, Calcutta. Asks for instructions about a package addressed to the Governor General landed from the steamer 'Governor Higginson'. Copy of reply, asking if there is an invoice and if not, if Howe knows what are the contents of the package. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6716

6668. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr W H Brown, Agra. Further to his application for employment.

6669. Jan 1860. Letter from the Reverend T Y Mitchinson, Chaplain, Rae Bareilly, Oudh. Asks for the Governor General's subscription to a sermon he is about to publish called 'A Word in Season'.

6670. Jan 1860. Letter from Sir R Shakespear, Governor General's Agent for Central India, Camp Mehedpore. Having seen in the printed letter to the Secretary of State for India number 90, 3 Jun 1859, that the Rajputana appointment is considered more responsible than his own and that the salary is to be 48,000 Rupees, while the salary of his office is fixed at 42,000 Rupees and believing that General G St P Lawrence will not return to India, asks to be appointed to the Rajputana Agency. Copy of reply, the Governor General believes that Lawrence will return, if not, Shakespear's application will be considered.

6671. Jan 1860. Letter from Captain A L Busk, Deputy Commissioner, Umballa. Names the Civil Officers in Umballa.

6672. Jan 1860. Letter from Major W H Greathed, Consulting Engineer, North West Provinces Railway Department, Allahabad. Recommends Golab Khan, his brother's Jemadar.

6673. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr G C Barnes, Commissioner, Cis Sutlej States, Umballa. Brings to notice the valuable services of Captain McNeile who was in charge of the Thanesur District, with a view to his name being inserted in the Supplemental Report on the good services of civil officers. Note by Lord Canning that McNeile's name is to be inserted. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6674

6674. Jan 1860. Letter from Captain W McNeile, Deputy Commissioner, Loodiana, Umballa. Returns thanks for the insertion of his name in the Governor General's supplementary Minute on the services of civilian officers and others during the Mutiny and also for the Private Secretary's kind assistance. Copy of earlier letter, his name is to be inserted. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6673

6675. Jan 1860. Copy of a letter to Mr C Beadon. Returning to him Mr Carne's letter, with a draft of the reply to be made. The Governor General does not wish to disparage Carne's services but cannot admit the comparison which he has thought proper to draw between them and those of other officers. His application should have been sent up through the local Government. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6577

6676. Jan 1860. Letter from Lieutenant General Sir J Outram, President in Council, Calcutta. Returns thanks for the information about the insertion of his son's name in the Supplemental List of Civilians who did good service during the Mutinies. Sends a letter from the Reverend Mr Badger with copies of 2 articles sent to The Times on the doings of the French in the Red Sea and the utter futility of the Suez Canal scheme as a commercial speculation. Observes that no more able or prudent agent than Mr Badger could be found with reference to his proposal to visit the different ports in the Red Sea. Outram has received from Sir C Wood extracts from his letter to the Governor General on the subject of the China Force and is quite prepared for the supplementary orders likely to be issued. Is glad that the British force is to be increased but cannot understand why it should be restricted to an equal number to be employed by the French. He has urged in a Minute the advisability of the British Force in the China Seas greatly preponderating but fears that the Governor General will not consider himself warranted in sending a man more than has been ordered from home. Copy of reply, His Excellency believes that it would not be advisable to send any Indian officer to visit the ports on the Red Sea without reference to the Home Government. The Governor General's Minute on the subject of the expedition to China has been signed and will be sent to Outram. Copy of earlier letter about Outram's son. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6530, 6683, 6562, 6855

6677. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr W Ford, Deputy Commissioner Punjab, Goorgaon. Returns thanks for the insertion of his name in the Governor General's Supplementary Minute on the services of Civil Officers and others during the Mutiny. Has no chance of advancement in the Punjab and asks for a political appointment under the direct control of the Governor General. Copy of earlier letter. Copy of reply, his application will be noted, but there are few posts and many candidates.

6678. Jan 1860. Letter from Sir R Shakespear, Governor General's Agent for Central India, Camp, Mehidpore. About appointments at Indore. Office memorandum. Copy of reply, approving these arrangements. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6604

6679. Jan 1860. Copy of a letter to Mr G E Lance, Mynpooree. The mistake about his name in the Minute of 2 July on the services of Civil Officers during the Mutinies has been corrected in a Supplementary Minute. See also Private Secretary’s Papers on Miscellaneous Subjects Mss Eur F699/1/2/6/35, item 432a

6681. 1860. Note that the names of Mr Spankie who did well at Shaharunpoor and Brigadier Corbett were favourably mentioned by Sir R Montgomery.

6682. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr C B Thornhill, Commissioner of Allahabad. In reply submits the names of junior officers who did good service during the Mutiny, whose names are not mentioned in the Governor General's Minute. 1 enclosure. Copy of reply, a Supplementary Minute went home before the Private Secretary received this letter, it would therefore be useless to show the letter to the Governor General. See also Private Secretary’s Papers on Miscellaneous Subjects Mss Eur F699/1/2/6/35, item 432a; Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6530

6683. Jan 1860. Copy of a reply to Mr C B Thornhill, Commissioner, Allahabad. Informing him that the names of J W Power, F B Outram and Sherer have been added to the list of those who did good service during the Mutiny. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6409, 6525, 6530, 6676

6684. Dec 1859 - Jan 1860. Letter from Colonel J Travers, 2nd Native Infantry, London. Asks to be appointed Political Assistant in Bhopal.

6685. Jan 1860. Letter from Captain W D Dickson, Officiating Assistant General Superintendent, Thuggee and Dacoity, Belgaum. In reply, will leave Belgaum in a few days. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6251, 6255, 6332, 6478, 6489, 6519, 6576

6686. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr G C Barnes, Commissioner of Umballa. Sends a petition from the 34 houses familiarly known as the Chountees Ghur, begging to be enfranchised as they were disenfranchised for no fault in 1848-1849. Cover only. Endorsed: Transferred to Secretary to Government Foreign Department.

6687. Note that a girl, probably Miss Thornhill, was supposed to be with the Nana Sahib in Nepal. Undated.See letter from Sir C Wood to the Governor General 3 Dec 1859, number 143

6689. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr J Inglis Magistrate and Collector, Bareilly. Returns thanks for the insertion of his name in the Governor General's Supplementary Minute on the services of Civil Officers and others during the Mutiny. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6422

6690. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr G Campbell, Judicial Commissioner, Lucknow. Asks the result of his application for 6 months leave. Mr Wilson was with him for 1 day but fears that Wingfield missed him. Hopes that the settlement of the Police which Mr Wilson reported will be satisfactory. Comments on the Private Secretary's financial plan for dividing off what is wanted to the different Governments, each to raise its own share as it likes. Madras will resent all taxes imposed on them in consequence of the Bengal Mutinies. Does not quite approve of the Punjab plan of taxation. Asks if the Governor General's Council is to be abolished or who is to succeed to the vacancy. Copy of reply, no reply has yet been received from the Civil Auditor about Campbell's application for leave. Comments on the Durbar at Umbala and the petition of the Cis Sutlej chiefs to have some of the privileges of which they were deprived in 1847 restored.

6691. Jan - Feb 1860. Letter from Mr W J Westfield, Calcutta. In reply, has given Mr Grey the Bengal Army List of Jul 1857 for transmission to the Private Secretary. Copy of earlier letter asking for this. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 6743

6692. Nov 1859 - Jan 1860. Letter from Colonel J Travers, 2nd Native Infantry, London. Hopes that the appointment of Commandant of the Bhopal Levy to which he has been nominated will not be filled up before the first few days of February when he expects to return. See also 5 See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence no. 818

6693. Dec 1859 - Jan 1860. Letter from Major General Le Grand Jacob, late Political Commissioner, Southern Mahratta Country, London. Apologises for having troubled the Private Secretary on the subject of the omission of his name from the Governor General's Minute which would not have happened had Sir G R Clerk had any knowledge of the intended Supplement.

6694. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr J W Sherer, Magistrate and Collector, Cawnpore. Returns thanks for the insertion of his name in the Governor General's Supplementary Minute on the services of Civil Officers and others during the Mutiny. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6427, 6525

6695. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr C J Wingfield, Chief Commissioner, Oudh, Sooltanpore. Asks for Mr Lindsay to be gazetted as a 1st class Assistant in Oudh, there being a vacancy owing to Captain Tulloh's leave having expired. See also Private Secretary’s Correspondence nos. 6706, 6646

6696. Nov 1859 - Jan 1860. Letter from Messrs H and R de Schlagentweit, Berlin. Have despatched some plates of their Atlas and specimens of the photographic edition of their drawings for Lady Canning. Have sent an application for compensation to be granted to Mr R Schlagentweit who has not received any pay or travelling allowances. Copy of reply, acknowledgement.

6697. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr R Temple, Commissioner, Lahore. The Governor General having offered him an appointment as Special Commissioner under Mr Wilson and Sir R Montgomery having said that he cannot well spare him from Lahore until 15 February , asks for instructions. Copy of reply, the Governor General would like him to leave before 15 February if possible. Telegraph Message received number 1114. Telegraph Message sent number 713

6699. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr N A Chick, Calcutta. Sends a statement of his case (printed) and appeals for employment. Copy of reply, the Governor General has no employment to offer Mr Chick.

6700. Jan 1860. Letter from Mr G C Barnes, Commissioner, Cis Sutlej States, Camp, Barah. Describes the arrangements made for the Governor General's Dak to Ferozepore.