Item 166 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

4 pp.

RJ is anxious to know from Lord Monteagle whether his 'memorial has gone in'. Edward Ryan does not want RJ to write to Monteagle 'as he says he fully relies on his doing what he is best and does not like me to plague him'. The Cambridge Commission are all in London - George Peacock looks much better and Adam Sedgwick is blooming: 'Their report will be out in a week or 10 days at farthest[.] The evidence and report together will about equal the Oxford blue book in size - the report about 200 folio pages and that is all I know about'. No one knows what the composition of the next parliament will look like: 'The official Whigs say they have 316 and Ld. Derby 316 - 22 uncertainties[.] But the Whigs count the Irish Brigade 100 and the Hurnite radicals (100) and Ld. D's 316 are likely to split like a racket it is said and so the Peelites look on and expect to win at last'. RJ lives currently mainly at the Athenaeum.