You say nothing, however, about your foot.

The papers and letters from home have just come in.

I hear that Lord John is very unwell, and will not be able to stand the work many months more, and that Sir R.Peel is obliged to be _cupped_ once a-week, and could not possibly take office.

Who is to take helm in the troubled ocean, no one knows.

I am glad that Metternich has been kicked out, for he and Louis Philippe are the men that have put in peril the peace and institutions of all Europe.