Who is their singing-master?
I wish they had my worthy Lablache.

I sing regularly every evening, as I think it better to do so every day to keep the voice manageable.

Oh, my beloved Uncle, could you join us, how delightful that would be! How I should delight in singing with you all our favourite things from _La Gazza_, _Otello_, _Il Barbiere_, etc., etc.
The little Cousin[11] must be a little love: oh, could I but see him and play with him! Pray, dear Uncle, does he know such a thing as that he has got an Aunt and Cousin on the other side of the water?
...
Pray, dear Uncle, have you read Sir R.Peel's two speeches?
I wish you would, and give me your opinion of them.
[Footnote 5: Some interesting observations on these events may be read in Borrow's _Bible in Spain_.] [Footnote 6: Don Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal (1790-1853), Spanish politician and financier.] [Footnote 7: Miguel Ricardo di Alava (1771-1843), Spanish General; he acted as the representative of Spain at Paris, at the Court of the Bourbons; he was a great friend of the Duke of Wellington, and was with him at his headquarters during the Peninsular War.] [Footnote 8: The Queen Regent, Christina.] [Footnote 9: Then six years old; she died in 1904.] [Footnote 10: This was in reference to the trial at Strasburg of the confederates of Prince Louis Bonaparte (afterwards Napoleon III.) in his abortive attempt to establish a military despotism on 30th October.

The Prince was permitted to go to the United States, being conveyed in a French frigate; the other conspirators were acquitted.] [Footnote 11: Leopold, born in 1835, afterwards Duke of Brabant, the present King of the Belgians.] [Pageheading: PARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE] _The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ CLAREMONT, _30th January 1837._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,-- ...

I am very sorry that the Portuguese news are still so very unfavourable; I trust that, in time, things will come right.