anticipated. The Provincial Council will assemble in a few weeks, and I would advise you to be here and commence the negotiations previously. Otherwise, I am sure you will get roughly handled; for, as I told you before, the European as well as the native population have lost all patience. It would appear that you are not over-anxious to come and settle this business; otherwise, after you had arranged, as you stated to me in a previous letter, to send, and had sent subalterns to all the districts in the North, and only waited for the arrival of the steamer, we should long since have had you