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frequent temporary

vacancies in all

the chief offices of Government. The

practice hitherto has been, on the

OCCUTTI I La

such va

to

vacancy,

of any fill it with the head of some other office; who is in his turn replaced some subordinate

by another head of

office; a general move being this caused in all the departments of the public service. To compare, by way of illustration, small things with great, the system in force at Honghing is as if every time dir Julian Pouncefote is indisposed or absent, his place at

the

the Foreign office, should be taken by Sir Ralph Lingen, who, in his turn, _ should be replaced at the Treasury by Sir Robert Herbert, whose place at the Colonial Office should be taken by the Permanent Under-Secretary from

the

India Office; and so on until we should find one of the Commissioners of Police, or Inspectors of Prisons, acting

as

permanent chief of the Board of

Trade, or of the Civil Service Commission.

5.

it is essential, on

All here

agree

that

public grounds,

that this mischievous system should

cease

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