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4. I hope to address Your Lordship before long, and in full detail, on the financial condition and prospects of this community. In the present dispatch, I propose to confine myself to an explanation of the reforms in its political constitution which are required for the purpose of removing the mischievous and irritating anomalies which now exist; of placing the Executive and Legislative Councils of this Colony on a footing similar to that held by those bodies in other Crown Colonies; and of securing