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absence from your duties, to which, as you are aware objections have been expressed by the Governor of the Johnny Sauern and the Bishop. Sir E. Lytton feels it impossible under these circumstances to accord to you permission to be absent from your duties for so long a period as an additional six months, or to sanction any continuance of your half salary beyond the expiration of your original leave. But in consideration of the representations contained in your letter, Sir E. Lytton will go as far as he feels to be the extreme limit of indulgence in granting you three months' additional leave without salary, till January next. Sir E. Lytton desires and requests that you will apprize him as soon as possible whether you accede to his proposal.