unfavorable to Mr. Forth without giving the latter an opportunity of explaining
3. This course seems to me opposed to the Custom of the Service founded both on consideration - as well as of convenience and natural equity - whilst the impossibility of dealing with a case left thus imperfect is proved by M. Cardwell finding it necessary to refer the matter back to the Colony for the purpose of obtaining those very explanations from M. Forth which might with greater advantage have been forwarded with W. Mercer's
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Mr. Childers to 31st May 1866. Original Despatch.
4. As for my own opinion on the case, it is in a great degree identical with that already expressed in the letter from Her Majesty's Treasury (Sir Fred. Rogers 3/26 May) enclosed in Mr. Cardwell's Despatch. There W. Forth is to blame that if - as he can unquestionably be - for want of zeal and vigilant energy in pushing forward the important duty entrusted to him, he did not receive from the Executive in the first instance the support which