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Written from 8 King's Bench Walk, Temple. Concerns the candidatures of Prince Albert and the Earl of Powis for the office of Chancellor of the university.

14 Gt. Queen St., Westminster - TEB sends WW two of his publications [concerning Lieut. Drummond's mathematics for deciding the boundary changes accompanying the 1832 Reform Bill - 'Two Letters to Lord John Russell on the Classification of Boroughs, 1832]: 'I had no imagination that such great names as those of Herschel[,] Airy and Professor Walker were to be arranged in defence of Lieut Drummond's principle. If you will do me the favour of looking at my own plan, you will perceive that I have taken a very different view of the matter from either Drummond or any other person'. TEB would like WW's opinion on this principle. TEB thinks there is some mistake about Professor Airy's sanction of Lieut. Drummond's plan: 'It is easy to put a very limited question and fancy it applies very generally'.

14 Gt. Queen St., Westminster - Could WW supply him with information concerning a Trinity man called John William Watson. Sends WW a copy of the Morning Post newspaper of Feb. 28th containing an article on the 'Corn Laws': 'I have only taken one sample for the proof of the paradox - the more corn, the more pasture produced or its equivalent for sheep and cattle'. From the Humber to Sherborne in Dorset runs a line of lime stone hills. If you take the duties on cottons (from the Prussian tariffs), it is clear that none but the finest manufactured article can enter the German Union.'