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Royal Engineers, or the Royal Artillery, or the Regiment of the Line in garrison. Whereas the succession of the Colonial Secretary causes (as has been fully shown in my despatch 11081, which should be read together with this despatch), a general displacement —
the Heads of the Civil Departments.
Moreover, in case of the death or absence of the Colonial Secretary himself while administering the Government, (and frequent changes must occur among Europeans in this exhausting climate), he must be replaced in the Government by whatever subordinate Civil Officer may happen to be acting as Colonial Secretary for the time being. The system now in force appears to be sufficiently condemned by the fact that, during the last two years, it has twice placed the Superintendent of the Gaol, (the late Mr Tomnochy), during several months in the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
(3.) The experience of a Gaoler (however meritorious in his proper capacity), acting as the Representative of the Queen, and the constant possibility of the renewal