commencing on the 2nd and on the 6th instant. One cutting on Surn, the foreman, was dissentient. Juror, I caused the prisoners to be adverted on leaving Court, and detained under the recent Ordinance 12 of 1857.
The Attorney General has doubted the legality of the detention, but I am confident that the legal adviser of Her Majesty's Government at Home will bear me out in my construction of the terms of the Deportation Ordinance. I enclose the correspondence that has taken place on this subject, as well as copies of two petitions that have reached me, and translations of two Memorials from Chinese "Inhabitants of the Colony.
I have not been willing absolutely to repudiate the general suggestion of the Attorney General that further proceedings should be taken against accused in other cases of poisoning, but having confidentially consulted the surgeon who recommends me to put an absolute stop upon such a course until I have an opinion from Home as to its advisability, I
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