| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | Planters complain of low prices of sugar and declare they cannot continue the cultivation of their estates [in the West Indies]. Accounts from Ireland, very melancholy as to poverty and crime. State of money affairs in the City much better, but the constraint and pressure continue in the country. Does Queen Victoria contemplate opening Parliament in person? It would be desirable. Russell says he cannot urge any further the propositions he submitted to Queen Victoria. His idea was to give Lord Lansdowne efficient assistance in the Lords because of his age and health. Later, Lord Morpeth may be induced to accept a Peerage. Russell recommends two daughters of Mr George Bell for pensions of £50 a year each. Russell fears that want of employment in the winter will be severely felt. He thinks, however, the abundant harvest of numerous orders for manufactures and reasonable temper of the people give ground for hope. |