lowed
upon the shock given to credit throughout Europe."

Unfortunately, most of the letters written by Lord Dundonald during
these months have been lost; but something of their purport may be
gathered from the replies to them. "I am very glad," Lord Auckland
wrote, on the 28th of May, "that your thoughts appear to be very
considerately given to the health of those that are under your command.
You will, of course, have consideration for the ships that have served
in the Gulf of Mexico, or other unhealthy places, and give them a turn
in the north. I did not lose a moment in sending to Lord Grey your
suggestions in favour of removing the convict hulks at Bermuda, and he
has promised me that he will, without delay, issue orders accordingly."

Lord Auckland wrote again to his friend on the 23rd of June. "I have
your valuable memoranda on the defences and dockyard of Bermuda," he
said, "and I am greatly obliged to you for them, as will be Lord Grey. I
will promise to give them early and deep consideration. In the meantime
I will press the Board to give immediate authority for the improvement
of the drains of the hospital, and of the supply of water. I am greatly
obliged to you for the steadiness with which you keep considerations of
economy in view. The disinterestedness with which you regard the schemes
which have been proposed for a new Admiralty House at Bermuda will give
you authority in checking expenditure in other objects."

"The affairs of France," we read in the same letter, written while
General Cavaignac was suppressing the June revolution, "are most
unsettled. There is no confidence in any man or party, and there are
discontent, and mistrust, and alarm. All feel that things cannot go on
in their present form; but none can foresee what will follow. It may be
a continuance of internal dissension, but in an aggravated form. It may
be a disposition to external violence. At home the condition both of
England and Ireland is quieter than it was." "There is more brightness
in our prospects at home just now," wrote Lord Auckland, three weeks
later, on the 14th of July, "than has been the case for some months.
Commerce and credit are reviving; Chartism is dormant, and Ireland is
less troublesome. And on the Continent there is a more general
disposition to return to institutions of order. I confess that I should
be glad to hear that just at this moment there were a larger force than
usual at Bermuda. The presence there of