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The Conditions Distance, Ordinances of Insting, I was informed that, before finally dealing with this enquiry, your Excellency was minded to await a report.
I stated in my reply that I would lay my views before you at the earliest possible period after my assumption of this Enviroment of Mis...
2. I would, in the first place, repeat that this is a large and complicated question, involving many moral and political considerations, such as have caused bitter controversy in England during the last quarter of a century.
Innumerous and influential deputations waited upon me before I left London; and, in particular, protested against any Government degradation or official intervention on the subject. I replied to the following effect:
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
I thank you for the honour which you have conferred on me by the presentation of your memorial; and I recognise here this day, so many persons distinguished for their philanthropic sympathies and actions. Permit me to assure you...
"that