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on the particular advertisement in... question, I directed that it should be published also in the Telegraph, on the ground that any person who should neglect to pay his rent to the Government on the day fixed, might plead that he did not read the other local newspapers.
9. The heads of the Public Departments, though they will, of course, obey any positive directions from the Governor, are, it seems, unanimous in protesting against any public money being paid to the Telegraph.
10. I shall receive. Hoping that I Your Lordship's instructions on the two questions submitted in this despatch, viz.
3. The question of Government Prosecutions for libel on Public Officers,
4. The question of the giving of Government Advertisements, under the circumstances detailed above, to certain