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Royal Engineers, or the Royal Artillery, or the Regiment of the Line in garrison. Whereas the succession of the Colonial Lecretary causes (as has been fully shown in my despatch 11081, which should be read together with this despatek), a general displacement —

the Heads of the Civil Departments.

of the death or absence

among Moreover, in case

of the Colonial Secretary himself while

administering the Government, (and

し

frequent changes must occur

Europeans

ens

among

in this exhausting climate),

he must be replaced in the Government

by

11348.

by whatever subordinate Civil Officer may happen to be acting as Colonial Secretary/

for the time being. The system now in force appears to be sufficiently condemned by the fast that, during the last two it has twice placed the

years,

Superintendent of the Gaol, (the late

Mr Tomnochy), during several months

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in the Office of Governor and Commander- in-Chief.

(3.) The experience of a Gaoler (borever meritorious in his proper capacity),

acting as the Representative of the Queen, and the constant possibility of the

renewal