letters from the Chief Justice, whom I consulted from time to time. on the subject, is enclosed for Your Lordship's information and consideration. It contains a complete account of the several phases of the transaction, but with a view to immediately placing Your Lordship in possession of a summary of the circumstances, I may here incorporate extract from the letter of the Colonial Secretary of 12th instant to Mr. Whitehead, which sets out the facts, and which closed the correspondence.
(3) It may be useful very briefly to recapitulate the circumstances which led to the appointment of the Committee, and those which have followed it. You have more than once moved in the Legislative Council for the appointment of a Retrenchment Committee.
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