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Admiralty. - Difficulty of obtaining a messenger's place from Baring, especially for those over 30; Milnes's protégé unlikely to succeed; own position offers no preferments except schoolmasterships; unable to visit Woburn but 'shd like to see you draw on the buskin again - histrionics... are still allowed in reformed Abbeys'; opposition to Wiesman's belief that Catholic Bishops have the right to govern Protestants. Postscript: asks whether [Kingsley's] Alton Locke will do some good.

Serlby. - Can Houghton assist his friend Thurlow Dowling?: Mrs Dowling is sister to Colonel Dunn, V.C; lists his military exploits; interested in trial of [Bonaparte?], having gone through the same trial several times.

Enclosure: letter, 26 Mar. 1870, from Thurlow Dowling to Bennett, 10 Low[er] Belgrave St, Eaton Sq. - Success of Houghton's previous intervention on his behalf with Earl de Grey; now seeks recommendation to Lords Cardwell and Northbrook to obtain a War Office Inspectorship.

Admiralty - Blakesley's paper so well written that Sir Charles Wood is having it printed and sent to Sir E. [Edmund] Lyons