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Recipient is suspicious of an inscription sent by Major Frazer, secretary to the Ionian Government.

The fatal illness and death of Dr Hawtrey, provost of Eton.

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Social, literary, and political gossip.

Suggestions concerning the article on Disraeli.

The article on Disraeli; his appearance as a Radical; his expectations in 1841.

Life insurances as the subject of an article; writer remonstrated with Lord John Russell's attackers.

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Gladstone's reasons for accepting the post; social gossip.

Writer has been with George Clive at the Tredegar iron works; Mr Homfray, a magistrate who manages one of the large works there, described a system of self-made law similar to the Irish Whiteboys; in 'the Scotch cattle row' (denominated from the perpetrators dressing in hides and horns) they punished any person who infringed the rules by breaking furniture and beating the culprit; no information could be obtained against the authors of the violence; Mr Homfray did not believe that any oath or rules of association existed; the same instinct of common interest pervades the Irish peasantry in the matter of land and the Welshman in the iron concerns; they earn high wages, particularly at present, and drink the greater part of them; recipient is a Welshman himself, 'we' have an excellent time for introducing the system of [?poor law] unions as the high price of iron must continue a certain time longer; they will be familiar with the idea before they feel its effects upon themselves; the establishment of an efficient police would not be very difficult if the iron masters would set about it seriously. Ps Writer wishes to know if Mrs Villiers is unwell. Damaged (repaired at NLW).

Things which strike writer about the bill: payment of rates; when magistrates who are guardians should not sit; detaining vagrants in custody; payment of costs in appeals, with reference to a Glamorgan case.

Two auditors should visit the Unions - one to audit figures and the other facts; writer's education report is 'nil'; the Kington doctor must go.

Reduction of rates and a petition against Assistant Commissioners at Hereford. Enclosed is: C/1507, 1840, Feb.-May, Orders by a Beguildy guardian for churchwardens to support a bastard. Copy.

The journey through Boston, Montreal and Quebec to Toronto; social gossip; Sir Francis Head's wonderful gallop through the State of New York; amiable discussion with Lord Elgin; the Niagra falls; Canadian politics are now in a sound state; the contrast between New York and Boston; little republican purity of morals in the former; mutilating an indecent book in the latter; Prescott's visit to England; Mr Clifford's will; the fugitive slave law in the United States.

The return voyage to New Brunswick; the Americans acted very reasonably on the subject of the fisheries; social gossip; the German's story of the increase in lace production in Nottingham since the removal of Protection; the cause was the application of the best machinery.

Electioneering and political affairs in England; the weather; the prosperity of New Brunswick and the alteration in the Navigation Laws; the growth of the anti-slavery policy in the States; literary and Church affairs.

Writer gets a bad fall while riding.

A request to ask Murray if he has received writer's letters containing corrections to Hughes's Dutch and Spanish School.

A visit to Western Canada; railway development; the price of wheat; prosperity; enthusiasm in favour of England in the Crimea; the growth of towns such as London; the contrast with the sleepy look which pervades Lower Canada is most remarkable.

Every white voter belonging to a slave state is worth more politically than a white voter from a free state; Lord Clarendon's firmness is essential to the successful issue of the present crisis; [the Americans] wish to shift attention from domestic troubles to foreign affairs; the Sumner affair; a ministerial crisis in Canada; the Yankees have the advantage in the event of war.