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Includes comments by [Samuel] Hinds on the state of Ireland; comments on English capital in Ireland; the immigration of Irish labourers and beggars; RC clergy in Ireland. Published.

Encloses extract from letter by Clarendon; has been distributing recipient's article on slavery.

Refs. to his 2 tracts: 'Address to the National School Teachers' and 'Search after Infallibility'; conditions in Ireland and the potato-rot. 'L[or]d Clarendon has gone on well thus far.' Ref. to Dr Ebrington and the National Schools. 'I shd like to know what accounts you hear of the Pope. By what we hear of him, he should be a fit pupil for you in P.E.' Ref. to Bishop of Cork who is dying of cancer but 'only keeps others out.' Irish elections; payment of priests will come too late; Irish Poor Law. Extracts only published.

Ecclesiastical Titles Bill passed; Lord John Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham; critical of Papal Bull; attempting to prevent separate legislation for England and Ireland; 'amusing blunder' in [M. W.] Savage's article on Ireland in the Edinburgh Review; Clarendon has no chance of the Premiership; assesses Clarendon's good and bad points. Extract only published.

Encloses article [missing] on religion by an evangelical; recipient is to show it to the ministers who are likely to be interested by it.

Wants enclosed [missing] placed before the Emigration Commission; comments on converts from Catholicism to Protestantism. Leaf missing.

Unfortunate that article delayed; articles on slavery in N.B. Review; praises Uncle Tom's Cabin; Thackeray claims U.T.C. is a misrepresentation of the facts; critical of the article in the Times; writer's publications; family news; comments on Tenby. Published.

Will return proofs tomorrow; comments on extract from New Orleans paper; writer's 'ladies' surprised that recipient has never been asked to be a Minister: 'You seem to have acted, in yr private concerns, like our officials, who send out supplies to the soldiers after they have been frozen & starved to death.'.

Disappointed at not receiving recipient's tract on Slavery. 'I am not judge enough of P[olitical] E[conomy] to pronounce between you & Mill, upon that subject; but he does seem to me, in Logic, to have a good deal of false pretension.' Further criticism of Mill and his review of writer's works. 'All this does not savour of a first-rate philosopher. And much of what he enunciates with a great pomp as his own, is only saying in many words, & rather darkly, what I had said, plainly, in few.'.

The 'Sabbath Question'; gives his opinions; wants information on govt's views of transportation. Published.

'Sabbath Question'; points out problems: 'I am a good deal in the dark on the whole question.'.

Recipient's article and the North British Review; religious differences and Church unity. Extract only published.

Parker wishes to publish writer's lecture on Egypt.

'Separate system' of Education in Ireland will increase evils; gives lengthy appraisal of situation. Endorsed: 'Memorandum'.

The Lord Lieutenant's proposed changes to the Education Commission: 'All the most important, the Com'rs have rejected.'.

Talbot v Talbot case; Sidney Herbert is 'half a Russian.'.

Talbot v Talbot case; 'calumnious falsehood' by Lord Lieutenant over request by Lord Lansdowne for money to build church; insufficient funds for Protestants; Sir H. Meredith useless; recipient's comment on Luther; 'I never myself saw any fault in S. H[erbert] except utter incompetency, & Tractism.'.

Recipient's article on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published.

Comments on Mrs Gordon (nee Lindsay); Talbot case; family news; Bacon's essays.

Future plans; the Uncle Tom's Cabin article; wants recipient to include writer's plan of raising black troops from Africa to fight Southern states.