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The Commission were welcomed in Malta as they were expected to establish immediately a freedom of the press; the Neapolitan consul is regarded as the chief obstacle to this freedom; Chief Justice Stoddart's speech in court was in pretty much the same tone of an article in the Times or any other blackguard newspaper; Mitrovich and his friends attach no weight to Stoddart's effusions; a separate report is needed on the question of the press; it is almost impossible to have confidential communication with anybody in Malta.

Sir John Stoddart and Lord Brougham compared; opinions on Stoddart and the chief secretary will be expressed in the Commission's report; if the import duty on corn were removed, wages would instantly be lowered to the starvation point. (Enclosed were queries on the state of the poor, together with an explanatory letter.).

Illnesses in England and Malta; various pamphlets, including one by Sydney Smith and one by the Government, are discussed; Peel's speech at Glasgow which dealt with the established church; the progress of the Commission and its report on the liberty of the press.

Lord John Russell's speech on Irish poor law; the publication of writer's work on this and the Irish church question; he thinks that the right to relief should be bound on a local settlement; the progress of the enquiry and its various sections; writer does not wish to spend the next four or five years in Dublin.

A notion prevails, due to the residence of the Prince of Capua there, that Malta is a gathering place for revolutionaries; this may indispose the English government from making necessary changes; recipient is asked to make it known that the Prince should reside in a British possession other than Malta and the Ionian isles.

The extreme mischievousness of keeping up large fighting establishments; nothing can be less prosperous than the French settlement about Algiers; the flattery of 'our youthful Queen' is most nauseating, and it must inevitably corrupt her.

Good sense in England regarding the Canada revolt; writer supposes that Brougham wished to be appointed instead of Lord Durham; the financial relations are the cardinal point of colonial government; the chief cause of discontent is the paucity of posts for colonials; the Duke of Wellington's moral character and practical ability; English lawyers in Malta are most troublesome demagogues.

The English lawyers are the pests of Malta.

The great importance of education in manufacturing districts; English outrages, unlike those in Ireland, are suggested by anarchical opinions.

The journey to Cannes; writer's mother aggravates him; a description of the south of France; the Provencal language.

Hyde Villiers's death; the absence of intellectual activity at Nice; its library and its Jesuitocracy; London elections; the danger of giving Ireland its independence.

Englishmen at Florence; the customs of the Florentine nobles; the country is a mere appendage to Austria; anatomical models; Mrs Lewis's sightseeing mania.

Letters from Head and Calvert; the appointment of Lord Wellesley as Lord Lieutenant.

Writer has recommended Cochrane to close with Jekyll's offer; writer's proposed visit to London.

Writer thinks that he will accept Senior's offer. (Enclosed was a letter from GFL giving an account of the girl in the infirmary).

Writer finds the enquiry onerous and will collect a great mass of evidence; the effects of Irish immigration into the west of England; Senior was unlucky not to be made under-secretary; Tory opposition to poor law reform will make it popular.

Mrs Austin's incomprehensible letter; the absence of local government in Manchester with its 40,000 Irishmen; the authorship of articles.

The dramatic parliamentary case of Shiel and Hill; the attitude of the Press towards poor law reform; the life of an Irishman consists of hard labour and drunkenness; Chadwick's exclusion, if because of his low origin, is scandalous; the duties on bricks and timber should be lowered; agriculturalists are a most insatiable race.

Guerry and writer journey to Worcester; Littleton's notoriety; the girl who was in the Hereford infirmary last year.

The report of the Church Commission will be a death blow to the Irish Church; the established Church is in a majority in no more than 10 parishes; Littleton works hard; Stanley did very ill in Ireland; other things are needed besides giving up coercion; some poor law is both inevitable and desirable.