Morning snow with a cold Easterly wind. Office. The news from Washington is of the passage of the amended Treasury bill by a majority of two in the Senate. I was a little curious to observe the tone adopted by the Globe. The leading article is very subdued, but endeavours to put the best face on the matter and intimates a hostility to credit which if thus kept up will certainly overturn the Administration.

At Office I found T. K. Davis who sat with me nearly all the morning. Conversation principally turned as it usually does with us upon political prospects and the difficulties in the way of useful and independent action. He made an allusion to my own particular position which gave me a turn into personal views which I do not often indulge and which are not frequently worthy of exposition. He left and Stanwood came in about his Mortgage. This consumed all my time so that I had little even for Sophocles.

Afternoon continue the coins which I must hasten if I propose to get through it this season. Evening at home. Read to my Wife part of Mrs. Inchbald’s Simple Story.1