Hardinge to Peel: the crossing of the Sutlej; surrender of Golab Singh and the Durbar's apology. the terms imposed on Lahore; army strengths; comments on his colleagues and his son

Hardinge to Peel: Sir H. Smith's victory at Loodianah; 143 guns taken; their excellence, oast by French officers; Golab Singhs messages; Lawrence's answer, plans for settlement

Hardinge to Peel: dispositions of the armies and prospects of marching on Lahore; Goughs indifference to elementary logistics; approaches by Rance and the chiefs; previous estimates for the invasion of the Punjab; casualties

Hardinge to Peel: the Sikh advance over the Sutlej and their repulse; Goughs incapacity for higher command and his bad staff; his own part in the battle and the conduct of his son and Prince Waldemar of Prussia

Hardinge to Peel: his orders to halt all movement of troops; Golab Singhs intrigues; Lahore urging its army to attack the British in order that it may be destroyed; no military operations likely

Hardinge to Peel: his restoration of corporal punishment in the native army

Hardinge to Peel: residence reports of anarchy in Lahore. Sikh government's attempts to induce British intervention; Golab Singhs conditional offer of allegiance; Sutlej militarily preferable as a frontier to the Indus; objections to the subsidiary system and the dismemberment of the Sikh state; detailed discussion of alternative policies; Napier's outrageous letter against Outram

Hardinge to Lord Fitzroy Somerset: encloses papers and Sir G. Arthur's recommendation of a brevet majority for Captain Mayne

Hardinge to Peel: poor prospect of any stable government in Lahore; importance of denying Punjab to Afghans; regret at the annexation of Scinde; Punjab must either be Sikh or British; bellicosity of the services and the press; his relations with Napier and settlement of the Outram affair

Hardinge to Peel: indignation at the Conservative attitude to the increase of the grant to Maynooth.