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Hyde Villiers's death; the absence of intellectual activity at Nice; its library and its Jesuitocracy; London elections; the danger of giving Ireland its independence.

Englishmen at Florence; the customs of the Florentine nobles; the country is a mere appendage to Austria; anatomical models; Mrs Lewis's sightseeing mania.

Letters from Head and Calvert; the appointment of Lord Wellesley as Lord Lieutenant.

Writer has recommended Cochrane to close with Jekyll's offer; writer's proposed visit to London.

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.