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2. The Committee further observe that the measures adopted by the General appeared to them judicious and such as should be approved pending the provision of the more complete armaments and works recommended by the Committee.

I have, &c.

(Signed)

No. 154.

Colonial Office to War Office.

M. E. HICKS BEACH.

(Secret and Confidential.) Sir,

Downing Street, June 5, 1878. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo, and in reply I am to refer you to the letter from the Treasury of the 22nd May, a copy of which was inclosed in the letter from this Office of the 27th ultimo,† consenting to the first cost of the Committee's recommendations for Barbadoes and Jamaica being provided for in the Army and Navy Estimates, and I am to request that you will move the Secretary of State for War to order the guns if they have not already been commenced.

The information which will result from the consideration of this question by the Secretary of State for War and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty will materially assist Sir Michael Hicks Beach in arriving at a conclusion as to the apportionments of the cost of these works.

No. 155.

I am, &c.

(Signed)

R. H. MEADE.

Colonial Office to H. T. Ussher, Esq., C.M.G.

(Secret and Confidential.) Sir,

Downing Street, June 6, 1878.

! AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th ultimo,‡ on the subject of the defence of the Island of Labuan, and in reply I am to inform you that, upon consideration, it is not thought expedient to incur any expense for the defence of the island in present circumstances.

I am, &c. (Signed) R. H. MEADE.

No. 156.

(Secret.) My Lord,

The Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks Beach, Bart., to the Earl of Dufferin.

Downing Street, June 6, 1878. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship, for the information and con- sideration of your Ministers, a copy of a letter from a Mr. Kennelly respecting the defence of the Port of Louisburg, Cape Breton, together with a copy of a letter from the Colonial Defence Committee, to whom I caused Mr. Kennelly's letter to be referred.§

(Secret and Confidential.) Sir,

I have, &c.

(Signed)

M. E. HICKS BEACH.

No. 157.

Colonial Office to War Office.

Downing Street, June 7, 1878.

IN their report on the Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Colonies inclosed in the letter from this Office of the 20th April, the Colonial Defence Committee recommended

* No. 144.

No. 134 of Miscellaneous, 35 E. No. 112 of Miscellaneous, 35 E, and No. 147 of this Paper.

No. 73 of same Paper. No. 46 of Miscellaneous, 35 E.

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