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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.

Writer feels himself in honour bound to continue on the Church Commission; an assistant Poor Law commissionership, the law and literature compared as future careers.

Every man should be able to maintain himself and family; in Ireland matters are different as the working classes have been brutalized and corrupted; the violent competition for land leads to outrages; the Irish labourer is reckless because he cannot rise above a certain level; writer wonders that there is so little crime in Ireland; there are more rich persons and also more poor people in Ireland than ever before; planned emigration is essential; Littleton's hard work was to no purpose.

Senior's pamphlet on national property does him much credit; there is a strong disposition to retain the King and the Lords if they will but behave decently; writer hopes that reform will not proceed by jerks; the diminished personnel of the Church Commission; the titheslaughter in the south; the Primate's strange antics.

Writer defends the treatment of lister; the difficulty of finishing the enquiry; the Commission has no power to recommend; the Catholics object to the principle of tithe; writer will examine the boys at Eton; the parties now seem at a deadlock; Corporation reform would give the Liberals a chance.

Edward Tufnell becomes an assistant commissioner; recipient wishes to recommend someone to TFL for a similar post; recipient has declined the commissionership.

A pamphlet on subscription to articles; prejudice and bigotry suit these subjects better than reasoning; papers on the Prussian church.

Enclosed was a letter from Senior about the Malta Commission; writer discusses his position if he should consent to act without public authorization; Austin's anxiety that writer should go with him; the Tory press abounds with attacks on private character.

Writer is ready to join Austin in London when he has heard from the Colonial Office; ways of putting down anonymous attacks on private character; writer's second article on the Irish church for the London Review.

Calvert's ubiquity; the impending departure for Malta; an audience of the King.

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.