| Description | To Robert Hugh Hibbert in India. Good wishes for the New Year 1870, "which we fervently hope will see you for ever out of India and its detestable climate." News from home, where the shooting has been poor due to bad weather..... The state of Ireland is alarming and Mr Gladstone's "messages of peace" are now taking the form of Infantry, Dragoons and Horse Artillery which are sent down to Manchester to be ready to go at short notice. He will have his hands full to stave off a downright outbreak, and as to his "land bill" they will simply laugh at it." |