I very busy all day at the office getting my books posted up and having a great influx of customers to pay a/c's- had a couple of clergymen- Mr. Sherwood and Mr. Tubbitt and Sir Charles Hastings down for sometime in the afternoon part.

The Dean of Worcester, the Rev. John Peel brother to the late Sir Robert, came to the office to pay his bill, & talked with me; he is the beau-ideal of a beneficent bishop, placid, almost timid, with apparent ignorance of worldly affairs with more such as he to give kind words the link between rich and poor would be stronger than it is.

Earl Beauchamp is dead and Geul Lyson MP for the county takes his title so there will be an election for the county! which with the one for the City caused by the Bankruptcy of Mrs. Rufford causes the folks to be in the qui vive.

crossing the Horse Guards saw the Hero of a Hundred Fights- the great Duke of Wellington, a tottering feeble old man now, mount his horse;

At the Natural History Socy room this evening to hear Mr. Hastings, a son of Sir Chas Hastings⁶⁷ deliver the first of a course of Charles on History beginning with the landing of Henry the 7th; he gave an excellent sketch of the state of England at this period, her laws, customs, manners of the people, the conditions of town & country; with a review of European affairs, a sketch of Columbus etc.- a very useful practical discourse.
 

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