Larger than its means would justify - a reason which though of great weight when that despatch was written, no longer applies in the present prosperous state of the Colony - a prosperity plain, decisive, or founded not likely to be shaken, but rather a considerable promising augmentation of pecuniary resources.
For has the 2nd reason any validity: "That the present state of affairs in China would probably necessitate frequent and long continued absences of the Governor from the Island." I was thrice absent from the Colony during the first year of my government, but in the last year have not been absent for an hour, so that my presence in the Colony has not been less than that of my Predecessors while my duties as Governor have been commonly increased.
8. The conferring on the Lieutenant Governor the performance of the ordinary details of local Government during my absence in the Island was in fact the great change proposed by the Duke of Newcastle. The arrangement