IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 59-77

This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 6 of 1847, dated 15 January 1847. The enclosures are dated 26 September 1846-8 January 1847.

The item chiefly comprises communications between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and the Under-Secretary to the Government of India. Also included is a minute of the President and Governor and the members in Council, Bombay, and a letter to the Government of Bombay from Charles Augustus Murray, HM Consul-General in Egypt.

The papers cover the following matters:

• Haines’s report on Aden and the vicinity including: relations between the Abdali [‘Abdalī] and Foutheli [Faḍlī] chiefs; a battle between Sheriff Hussain ibn Ali Hyder [Sharif Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī Ḥaydar] and Sheik Ali Homeidah [Shaikh ‘Alī Ḥumaydah]; the Imam of Sana [Sana‘a], his force of 3000 men at Taez [Taiz] and his possible intentions with respect to either Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] or the treasury of the Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej]; and the reduction of scurvy and the number of sick in the 2nd European Regiment
• Submission, to the authorities in India, of a bill for the expenses incurred on account of the recent visit to Aden of the ‘Princes of Johanna [Anjouan] with their followers’ (f 72) (including the approval of the Civil Auditor, Bombay, f 71), authorisation to Haines to furnish them with a passage to their country should they visit again, and report of their departure
• Guidance to be followed with regard to passengers by steamers to Suez landing at Aden during the prevalence of cholera or any other unusual epidemic there.

The last two enclosures, the Bombay Times summary of Intelligence and Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, are noted as ‘Missing 29.10.1906’.