—I am very uncomfortable about the position and doings of the Association. We never settle anything satisfactorily in London. Ought we not to meet here for a good confab? I shall be engaged on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, but to-morrow or on Tuesday would hold myself at your disposal if you choose to come down. As you cannot write in time for to-morrow, I think it best to propose Tuesday. Send one line to say Yea or Nay; and if you come, do not be engaged to get back, as I am worried by pressure for time, which indeed always prevents the exhaustion of a subject in discussion. I cannot help feeling that unless the proceedings of the Association be invigorated, it will, ere long, die out. It will be a hopeless task to maintain the present interest without action.