He announces that he was about to leave for the House of Commons, that the interview with Sir George Murray had been unsatisfactory because although he seemed to agree with them he was afraid of taking any action, though he had prepared a new Order in Council to apply to all Crown Colonies. He adds that he was to see Murray about Mauritius again that night and asks whether she had seen his large manuscript book on the Mauritius case, which he had left under the pigeon-holes [in his study]. He reports that the matter of the Indian widows was then uncertain, though he had heard that the Board of Control had given Lord William Bentinck permission to abolish the practice [of sati] if he thought it safe to do so.