Dangos 1959 canlyniad

Letter of introduction for M. de Cavour and M. de Santa Rosa. Copy.

Description of his continental tour. Copy.

Accepts honour from Central Statistical Commission; ref. to writer's article on 'The Law of Nations'; invites recipient to London; has 'begged' Children's Employment Commission to send report. Copy.

Flattered by honour received from the Royal Academy of Brussels; comments on political and social situation in Paris; expects Roman expedition will destroy ministry. Copy.

Re Hand-Loom Inquiry; encloses letters from Mr Muggeridge, [Joseph] Parkes [enclosed] and [Samuel Jones] Loyd. Comments on expense of Commission. [Included is letter from Parkes dated Aug. 3, 1837]. [Typewritten copy by Mrs Strachey, from Home Office papers].

Re recipient's article on Ireland in Edinburgh Review: 'Mr Napier tells me Lord Monteagle disagrees with some of your positions - But it is impossible to make the work of a single mind suit the various opinions of political men, and all that I desire is that the paper should be considered as the Review, and not the party. There must be, & ought to be a great difference between what appears but in viewing a subject as a whole, & what appears practicable when the cabinet, & the two Houses of Parliament are taken into consideration Indeed I often wonder that any useful measure at all comes out from the grinding process of government distribution, & parliamentary discussion.'. Has told Napier that his review would only be spoilt by trying to combine the expression of various politicians into one crucible'.

Breakfast arrangements.

Suggests following Sunday for meeting.

Re possible appointment of a conveyancer as a Master in Chancery; believes it would be advantageous to the Court; considers 'experiment is worth trying', and 'I, as an individual, shd see with great pleasure your appointment.'. Copy by S.

Irish Question; the position of magistrates; comments on O'Connell.

[George] Bancroft to take articles from Edinburgh Review to recipient; refs to Irish poor law problem and the possibility of another war in Northern Italy; comments on political situation in England and France. Published.

Re writer's article on the events of 1848 in Paris; Lansdowne pleased with French visit. Published.

Future plans. 'We find every body very kind but my anti-Austrian feelings are increased by every thing that I hear.'.

Travel arrangements. 'The Gladstones will come to meet you at breakfast but the Hollands you must go to.... On Thursday a remarkable person dines there [Naples], Del Carreto.'.

Has received recipient's 'note' [not 'letter' as in published edition]; future plans. Paragraph excluded from published edition: Marquis Salvo has papers for recipient; comments on disapproval of Lord John [Russell]'s letter [on RC 's]. Published.

Re recipients attempts to meet Lady Holland; writer is 'splendidly lodged' in Rome; quotes from letter of Lord Lansdowne (Feb. 17) re 'religious storm' over Roman Catholicism in England. 'Still with the exception of a few contemptible instances, the whole discussion has been carried on in a far more tolerant tone than would have been the case half a century ago.'.

Has sent Sorrento and Paris journals to Mrs Grote; personal news [omitted from published edition]. 'Palmerston is rising with us. We think that he has done nothing very monstrous for some time unless the sending Gladstone's pamphlet about be so considered.'. Published.

The will of Mdme. de Tocqueville's aunt; suggests specific wording as recipient cannot hold land in England but his wife can; comments on Louis Napoleon; news of Belguim from Van de Weyer; news of Prussia from Mr Banfield and of Thiers and Duvergier d'Hauranne; critical of works of Fiquelmont; news of articles in Edinburgh Review.; Lord Normanby not to return to Paris '... in compliance with the President's wishes.' Gladstone's pamphlet on Naples ' ... is said to demolish King Ferdinand.'. Postscript: News from Schwartzenberg on Prussia. 'Look at article on the personal character of L[ouis] N[apoleon] in the Times of Monday. It is by [Henry] Reeve - much built out of my conversation & Guizot's letters.'. Published.

Sir Henry Ellis has letters for recipient. 'It is difficult to suppose that our new ministry is serious. [Spencer Horace] Walpole was with great difficulty persuaded to take the Home Secretaryship - I leave, he said, my business at the bar, & what will become of me 6 months hence when we got out? They told him however that they cd not do without him. The Duke of Northumberland is a naval man & a man of literature & knowledge. He will not make a bad first Lord of the Admiralty. [Edward Burtenshaw] Sugden will be a first rate Chancellor, & [John Charles] Herries respectable at the Board of Control - & I dare say that Lord Salisbury will not expose himself as Privy Seal. But to have the budget; which requires knowledge & invention in such hands as Lord Derby & D'Israeli, who know nothing of real business & nothing of finance - to have an ignoramus like Lord Lonsdale at the head of public instruction, a mere county Gentleman, like Packington [recte, John Somerset Pakington], to preside over the Colonies & Lord Malm[e]sbury, who never opened a despatch, or did any thing, except publishing that most amusing but most indiscreet book about his grandfather, at the foreign office wd be ludicrous if the matter were not too serious for laughter. It is now said that they do not dissolve till the summer -In that case I doubt their getting a working majority, for the next three months will exhibit their incompetence. It is one comfort that we are free from Palmerston at the foreign office. The Queen will not allow him to return thither, & not easily readmit him to the Cabinet. [?Martin] Nadaud is here - in great part I have obtained work for him at 5s a day as a mason - & hope to do better for him - He is said to be a skilful respectable ouvrier. Many inquiries about you but I am forced to answer that I have not heard from Paris since I left it.' Lord Lansdowne to leave politics.

Published.