Copy of a dispatch from the Governor-General to Sir J. Kane, K.C.B., G.C.H appointing the latter to the command of the army in place of Sir Henry Fane, and issuing instructions for the support of the efforts of Shah Shujah Ool Moolk to re-establish his sovereignty in Afghanistan in opposition to Dost Mahomed Khan and the Chief's of Kandahar: also a copy of a despatch to W.H. Macnaughton, Envoy and Minister at the Court of Shah Shuja, containing instructions regarding policy and actions to be adopted in supporting Shah Shujah on his return to Afghanistan.

A draft memorandum of the Governor-General concerning details of barracks to be constructed for European troops, the comparative salubrity and expense between stations in the hills and the plains and proposal for posting European regiments from certain stations in the plains to the hills; also a letter dated 24 October from W. Garden at Simla including a sketch showing the relative positions of hill stations and places eligible for locating European troops and giving his remarks thereon

Copy of a letter from military department of Government of India at Simla to the military department of the same at Calcutta, giving the Governor-General's instructions on several points connected with Madras troops serving in the Bengal Presidency, submitted by the Government of Fort St.George

Copy of letter from Lord Auckland, Governor General, to Sir Henry Fane, Commander-in-Chief, in answer to a proposal from the latter to brigade the European regiments together, and strongly dissenting from this proposal

Copies of letters and memoranda concerning a revised scale of wound pensions for the Sepoys of the three presidencies

Addresses and answers from and to Launceston (1846), Calcutta (1847), and Madras (1848); addresses from the City of London and the Freedom of the City (1846)