I shall have much to do there--as much as any minister in his office, if politics leave me the necessary time for it.
[Then follows a quantity of details about the party politics of the day.

And then he continues:--] "Such a contested election with us costs about 2,000_l._ to 3,000_l._ I must say I never spent money with more regret than this; but I had to maintain the party interest and my family influence in my electoral district.

I have there a fine old castle and a splendid park, but I rarely go to the country, since I have jumped, as you know, once more into the whirlpool of politics, and can't get out again.

An agrarian communistic agitation has been initiated, I do not know whether with or without the sanction of S----, but certainly it has spread rapidly over a great portion of the country, and I doubt whether Government has the energy for putting that agitation down.

It is a very serious question, especially as it finds us engaged in many other questions of the highest interest.
[Then he gives an outline of the position of Hungary in relation to other States, and then he continues:--] "We remain still in opposition with the Wallachians, or, as they now like to call themselves, Rumanes, and we try to maintain the peace with Prussia.