IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 460-492

This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 16 of 1850, dated 16 March 1850.

The enclosed papers, dated between 13 June 1849 and 13 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; Charles Murray, British Consul General in Egypt; Second Lieutenant H W B Bell, Acting Executive Engineer, Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Waddington, Commanding Engineer, Aden; and the Military Board, Bombay. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].

Several matters are covered by the papers, including:

• Assurances from the Ottoman Government regarding the enforcement of the conditions set out in the recent Anglo-Ottoman commercial treaty [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at Red Sea ports under Ottoman jurisdiction
• The plans and proposal for a new treasury and guard room at Aden, to replace the current one that is in disrepair
• General updates on the state of affairs in the Aden Settlement and Protectorate.

Enclosure Nos. 17-18, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times and the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier dated 16 March 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.