Ffeil 3100. - James [Drummond] from London, to his father Sir F.W. Drummond, BART., at Post-Restante, Munich,

The recipientt's readiness to educate 'Dick' for the Artillery. The writer's letters to Mrs. M'banks, and from Sir John Hall. The writer's proposed visit to Scotland. Melville's request that he should sign the bill, and his own request for the exact sum he was bound for (£2700 for commissions, and now £363). The writer's unsuccessful bid to secure a staff situation with the troops going to Canada, and extracts from letters received from Steuart and Tweeddale. The writer's plan to get his father into Parliament free of expense. News of 'Dick's' progress. Account of a party at young Boyd's. News of Christie Dalrymple's death and Catherine Fergusson's forthcoming marriage, Brodie's call, and Sir G. Clerk's departure for Paris and Switzerland. The Royal Exchange is a frightful heap of ruins, - fires are all the fashion. Brougham's most humorous speech ever in the House. The cold weather. Drafts are being made from the 1st and 3rd Battalions to the 2nd; the latter will go out 800 strong, and Sir Jas. Macdonnell will command the brigade. Everyone is abusing Joddrell for having left. "Frank's" letter was not worth reading.