He will do all he can to put everything together, and it does not appear to him that there is any necessity on any side for a decisive step at present.

A letter is arrived to-day from Bulwer, which states that the instructions given to Guizot are, through the interposition of the King, of a very pacific character.

It would surely be well to see what they are, and whether they will not afford the means of arranging the whole affair.
Lord Melbourne thought with your Majesty that the letter to Lord Granville upon Prince Metternich's proposition was a great deal too short and dry and slight, but the importance of this step is now a good deal superseded by what has taken place, and the position of affairs has already become different from that in which it was resolved upon.
Lord Melbourne very much thanks the Prince for his letter, which may do much service and have an effect upon the antagonists.
Lord Melbourne has just seen Dr Holland.[45] Lord Melbourne is very much crippled and disabled.

Lord Melbourne does not think that the shooting has had anything to do with it.

His stomach has lately been out of order, which is always the cause of these sort of attacks.