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they have presented the report, a copy of _xt which Inclose for Your Lordships. information, in which they fix the total
anen
annnber of
Europeans.
Hindoos.
Chinese.
at 168... Viz;-
7
46.
This horrver includes 19 mon for the preservation of order, at the two stations of Stanley
services are
in Aberdeen, and 21 mew whose
no permanently required for the gaot aris the superintendence of the Convicts. The whole number therefore required in the town of tictoria and its immediate neighbourhood for police - : purposes both by land and water, amount
to 128.
The European force they counder in the present state of the Colony indispensable, as the Hindors cannot
Jet
yes be relied on, and still.
98
año still less the Chinese,
to repel the attacks of armed gangs of
robbers which
were once so
so pequent, and which as detailed in for Horry Pottinger's
despatch N. 19, of March, 19th 1844, were the occasion of this force having been so largely increased in the beginning of 1844, by blunteers from the 55th Regiment __
The attacks have in consequence nearly ceased, but from the vicinity of the Mainland, the straggling nature of the lown, and the unfinished and untenants state of many buildings, which therefore as yet afford little protection or support to each other, Ishould entertain great. apprehensions of a penewal of then disorders, and of much consequent injury to the prosperity of the settlement, if this number of Europeans were al présent materially reduced. I trust, however,
that