Warm morning and showers. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion.

I went to town. Time taken up partly in a visit to the house in Acorn Street where there are a regiment of men doing repairs, and partly in accounts and commissions.

The arrival of news by the Great Western made some sensation inasmuch as it brought accounts of a continued want of money in England and a fall in cotton. The prospect is thick ahead. No chance of any more relief by loans, and exchange consequently rising.

Home to dine. Afternoon, Tacitus, 4 book, 20 sections. And a little of Grimm and Le Comte. Evening at my father’s. The sudden changes of the weather and getting my feet wet have given me the ague in my face.