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"not been discovered; but now that the Rifle range is nearly completed, I hope to be able to put every man through a course of Musketry during this winter. This report, like the preceding reports from the Superintendent of Police, deserves serious attention; especially in connexion with the Report of the Commission of Inquiry respecting the alleged smuggling of Opium, which was appointed in consequence of certain proceedings in the House of Commons, and of which proceedings were transmitted under my despatch, No. 2978 of the 10th November Ultimo. That Report (page XIV) recommended that "the gathering together of unauthorised armed Bands in British Territory, for any purpose whatever, should be prohibited. If it should be asked in Parliament or elsewhere, why that prohibition has not in all cases been enforced; or if any grave inconvenience should happen in consequence of the want of proper discipline and training in the Police, I would again repeat my confidence that Your Lordship...