...re dissent was sure, whatever might be proved, none has been expressed, and even of this sort there has been much less than was expected . . . . The last steamer brought me a pleasant letter from Hillard , . . . . and another from Miss Edgeworth,—aged eighty-one,—written with the freshness of forty. All I hear makes me anxious for England, and almost in despair about Ireland. Indeed, a...