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my Letter much less to attend to my Recommendations
overwhelmed as he must needs be with Affairs.

I have also been in communication with Mr. Scott
who very recently writes to the following effect.

Anguseyville Gosport

21 June 1846

"I have delayed acknowledging your Letter, until I should
have received a reply from Mr. Gladstone to a Letter, which
I addressed to him upon the same subject as that contained
in your Letter. Viz: The Propriety of providing for Emigration
to New South Wales by means of a Loan raised for that pur-
pose, and likewise the necessity of reducing the minimum
price of Crown Lands within Boundaries.

I have this Morning received an answer, in which he says –
"At so early a period after his accession to Office, and
before he has acquired a capacity to discharge his Parlia-
mentary Duties, he is sure I will excuse his entering into
Details upon the important subject to which my Letter
referred. Mr Gladstone continues as follows. "I will only
say that I have begun to apply myself to their conside-
ration, and that I hope you will have no reason to
complain of a disposition to procrastination on my
part –

I go to London tomorrow and shall very soon have
an opportunity of meeting Mr. Gladstone and I hope