Writer is satisfied that his paper on the Irish Poor Law should be published; the anonymous pamphlet, probably written by Whately, is detestable; he tries to prove that no poor law can be administered in Ireland; a good system would be better than Whiteboyism and fear of starvation; the workhouse must be the gate to emigration; Mr Nicholls is better calculated to make a poor law for Ireland than Whately; priests contract a habit of intellectual dishonesty; the King may have interfered with the liberty of the press in Malta; the Commission wish to be recalled unless the Colonial Office are likely to grant political changes; the Commission has excited expectations; a legislative council and municipal bodies will be recommended; moral, but no legal, checks on the conduct of the local government will be proposed; having been subject to military despotism for 300 years, the people are childlike; granted certain conditions Malta might be governed with an old broomstick; with a free press, illegal assemblies could be put down; economic prospects are bleak; reckless habits of breeding might necessitate emigration; the hot weather; cholera.