I only hope that if the volunteers ever have to act indeed, they may behave better than at Naples, where they left the worst impression of English morals and discipline.

They embarked to return home dead drunk all of them, and the drunkenness was not the worst.

Sir John Bowring has been ill since he came, so perhaps he may go before I see him again.

Then Madame Swab [Schwabe], whom I slightly knew in Paris, has been with me to-day, talking on Italian affairs.

There is room for anxiety about the Neapolitans; but don't believe in exaggerations: we shall do better than our enemies desire.
There will be war probably....
Robert has taken to modelling under Mr.Story (at his studio) and is making extraordinary progress, turning to account his studies on anatomy.