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Writer and his father are in favour of recipient accepting a most important office, especially as the government is gaining strength; recipient would also get rid of the contact of Torrens.

A Latin motto. (Enclosed was writer's paper about quarantine.].

Italian objections to the freedom of the press in Malta are carefully considered and dismissed; the real objection is to the increase of English influence in the Mediterranean due to her liberal policy; there are only about three Italian exiles in Malta; the Maltese are full of strong national predjudices and are religious even to superstition, so they would not allow foreigners to meddle with their politics; the great difficulty is ignorance, which can only be removed by a free press and education.

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.

Family health; Capt. Hume's outrageous conduct; early English government of Malta was most disgraceful; writer does not understand the government's conduct about the liberty of the press; George Villiers has public spirit; for the radicals must decide if they are to support the Whigs; articles in reviews, including one on Irish poor laws.

Cabanis's book on the connexion of body and mind; discussion on Irish poor law in Blackwood's Magazine. Incomplete.

The death of writer's mother.

Printed supplement to the remarks on the third report of the Irish Poor Commissioners, by G. C. Lewis, together with a letter, 1836, July 19, from Dr James Phillips Kay to G. C. Lewis. The cause of the efficacy of Workhouses. and the Outdoor Relief of the impotent Poor.

Cochrane's opinions on certain articles; writer's plans for wintering abroad on account of his health; writing for the Penny Cyclopaedia and other publications; social gossip.

TFL joins his wife and writer; the history of the road from Nice to Genoa; the trade of Genoa; Whately's lecture on political economy; the difference between legislative and executive sovereignty.

Articles for the Penny Cyclopaedia.

Letters of introduction from recipient's brother; the condition of the Irish in Birmingham; there is no animosity against them as in Lancashire; a change of currency would not be an advantage to the working classes; disappointment at the Reform Bill; Senior would be invaluable in Parliament; his pamphlet on Ireland.

The attitude of the parties towards poor law reform; Howick was probably fitter than Senior for ministerial office; Irish inferiority in complicated work is due to their moral and not to their intellectual deficiencies; the North Welsh have a difficulty in expressing their ideas; great events in Spain; national education must be dealt with before the Factory Act is effective.

Senior's remarks on that ignorant and irascible body, the magistrates; Chadwick is the keystone of the whole reform; Blanco White's book; the beginning of the cheap book system; articles in magazines and for the Penny Cyclopaedia translations of Aristotle's Ethics; M. Mallac's mission; Williams will make a good judge.

Writer crosses from Scotland to Ireland; the native population on the South-west coast of Scotland has been displaced by the Irish; Whately is almost the only efficient man on the Irish commission; the towns allotted to writer; a story illustrating vindictive feeling against the professors of a rival sect.

Writer almost despairs about the repeal of the Corn Laws; no action is taken when the price of corn is not oppressively high, and when it is, the duty is usually remitted; the reasons for increasing supplies from Ireland; Howick's article; Oxford liberality is at zero; writer's companions in Ireland.

The Bulwer brothers obtain an European reputation by abusing their own country; writer is against becoming an assistant Poor Law Commissioner; the difficulty caused by the difference between civil and ecclesiastical divisions in Ireland; Lister need not go to Ireland; a query regarding lay impropriators in England.

Brougham loses his popular reputation; the Tories have little prospect of success; they may shorten still more the natural life of the hereditary royalty and peerage of the realm.

Torrens has placed recipient in an embarrassing position by communicating separately with the C[olonial] O[ffice]; even with a reconciliation it would be difficult to place any confidence in him as a colleague.

Stephen does not think the matter very serious; Senior's letter has been answered.