gambling Licenses. Thus on one hand there was a rigid enforcement of the Ordinance's liabilities, and on the other, a partially meeting of circumstances, which had unexpectedly offered, and been taken away.
The only point of importance which Your Grace's above-mentioned despatches left unsettled was that affecting the Mint. This, however, was of such magnitude, that although it was my intention at first to have substituted fresh Estimates for those laid before Council, I feared they might be upset like their predecessors by despatches intimating either the abolition or suspension of minting operations here. I also confess frankly that as I could not have invited the Legislative Council to reconsider the Estimates without laying before it Your Grace's despatches, as my justification for such altered policy, I felt a great reluctance in the interest of Her Majesty's Government to take that step, because the most important points affirmed in those despatches are extremely vulnerable, as will presently appear, and also because in the existing very depressed condition of the Colony, I did not think it...