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upon which they may require information, and also with reference to robberies and other offences . The system would

Dear

to have been carried on upon - very large scale, but it appears that in consequence of certain facts that have come to the

Anwledge of the Home Secretary,

he has come to the determination

the

notice

of stopping payment of Mr Field's pension, and a has been sent to him to that

effect. The ground for this step appears to be that some of the agents of the Inquiry Offre have

in their communications with the

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authorities of foreign countries,

assumed functions which they were not warranted in

doing, and that the letters sent from

the office to parties abroad were -headed "Bureau de Durété.

thus

leading

the authorities to

believe that the establishment

a

portion of

of Mr Field was the established police system, when in point of fact

connexion whatever existed between

thom. Repeated complaints and

remenstrances, it would seem,

made upon

had no

the

seem, were

subject, but they

effect in causing

alteration of the

arr

system,

and at