He was appointed the Crystal Palace commissioner to Sweden in 1853, and wrote "A Brage-Beaker with the Swedes" (1854) on his return. In 1855 he was sent to the World's Fair in Paris, the "Exposition Universelle", as correspondent for several London papers, and from that time he lived much in Paris. In 1857 he succeeded his father as editor of "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper", a post which he held for twenty-six years.