- C/1316.
- Ffeil
- [1857], Feb. 16.
Gladstone is going to make a furious attack upon recipient's budget.
Gladstone is going to make a furious attack upon recipient's budget.
The appointment of Lord Colville as Commandant of the HAC; the King's animosity to Mr Fox and his exclusion in 1804.
A request for a post as Inspector of Prisons for Sir Charles Phipps's son-in-law.
The Queen is satisfied with the arrangements about Capt. Galton; commissions should be sent for her signature as they are issued.
A visit to Germany.
Writer's brother-in-law, Edward Lewin, who has been in business and administration in Stockholm, desires an appointment under the Poor Law Commission.
Colonel Courant's hard treatment was typical of that inflicted by the late Sonderbund governments; Switzerland has surmounted the greater difficulty; alarming discontent in France; literary activities.
Recipient's botanical notes.
Social gossip; the progress of the History of Greece; Charles Buller's death; sympathy with the French Republic.
Recipient's article on writer's work in the Edinburgh Review is scholarlike and philosophical.
Literary affairs; the elections in Herefordshire, the City and Southwark.
Recipient's defeat at Peterborough.
The death of TFL.
Only two of the Bank Directors, Thomas Tooke, junior, and Horseley Palmer, are not unanimous in the right direction; recipient is averse to the Government directly controlling the Issues; writer opposes raising the uncovered Bank Issue; the opinions of Neave, Latham and Norman; the restriction of Scotch and Irish issues is fortunate, a general alarm would exert terrific pressure upon our currency; Schwegler and Niebuhr compared.
Recipient's complete exposure of Niebuhr's inaccuracies; a fixed legal limit upon paper issues is necessary, as also is the separation of departments in the Bank of England.
Passages in his History ... dealing with calendars and chronology.
Sir Thomas Blaikie, Rev. Dr Cruikshank and Dr Thomas Clark favour Bain's appointment. Enclosed is: C/1377, 1860, Aug. 27, [Sir] Tho[mas] Blaikie, Cork, to John D. Milne, Aberdeen. Bain's claims.
Rev. Dr John Murray's letter of 31 Aug. in support of Bain's candidature, a copy of which is enclosed.
Mr Ferrier of St Andrews writes in favour of Bain without any solicitation; his letter of 3 Sept. is enclosed.
Writer honours recipient for his intention of appointing Bain; he is the man best qualified to fill the Chair; the weight of anxiety has been difficult for writer to bear.