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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.

Prospect of Anglo-French metal trade; French liberalism; history of the Revolution; the trial of the Duchess of Berry; Nice is ready to fall to France; its population; the penitentiary, language and climate of Sardinia.

Cholera in Radnorshire; Brougham is involved in a skirmish in the Commons; John Romilly canvasses Ludlow for his brother Edward.

Recipient and his brother receive appointments; Lord Melbourne mismanages the London police; a radical change in punishments is needed; TFL decides not to undertake the Poor Law Commission in Ireland; the Bishop of London complains about the immorality of English theatres.

A noisy night at Liverpool; a girl in a state of insensibility; Whately does not answer letters.

Contradictions regarding the Irish character; recipient's suspicion that they are an inferior variety of the Caucasian race is confirmed; the North Welsh are inferior to the English; writer differs from Senior's view that an English poor law in Ireland would not diminish emigration.

Plans for a visit to England; slow progress of the work in Ireland; Hume's masterly pamphlet on the Corn Laws.

Writer's English visit; another enquiry in Ireland; Cameron is the reputed author of an article on the Irish poor laws.

Articles in the Law Magazine.

Mr Wilkins succeeds TFL in Parliament; writer cannot afford a contest; the disturbed condition of Tipperary; conacre land; a combination to prevent the ejectment of tenants; violent means of enforcing its rules; possession of land or starvation are the only two alternatives; Revans is now in charge of the Poor Commission; the Church Commission is very popular with the Catholics.

Civil, Protestant, and Catholic parishes; Lister's article on Irish church reform; the Tory attempt must fail.

A change of ministry is hardly possible, but would have a powerful effect in Ireland. Incomplete.

Wells has been appointed by the Poor Law commissioners for the Ash district.