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without a telegram from Galle. We shall not be long enough in England to gain any object by renewing our petition for telegrams every mail, and if you have not already gone on sending them we cant help it. But I must say that we fully relied on having this latest news at our command and as for the cost of transmitting it, why it will not bear a moment's comparison with the advantage it would give us, would have given us just yesterday when Lord Granville was eager to know about the press telegram's reliability, and when we were there like stuck pigs. I have not time before the mail closes to touch on other matters, and indeed, as I said above, I couldn't give you a clear notion of them, not having one myself. In all probability, however, you will see Chapman and Sewell before the next mail reaches New Zealand. They sailed a day or two ago in the Somersetshire s.s., which you know makes fast passages; and I expect they will be with you early in April. They will tell you, since they were here during all the time and Sewell had such a great hand in the agitation himself, not only what was done but what it resulted in; and you must wait for any opinion of ours as to this result. But for my own part I am satisfied that instead of helping New Zealand, the row that there has been for some months past has done us a good deal of mischief, and would have made the Commission a great difficulty if the sudden collapse of the agitation consequent on the failure of last month's deputation to Lord Granville had not smoothed our path. If you want to make an agitation unpalatable and unsuccessful, you will try and make it ridiculous; and there is no doubt that the deputation to Lord Granville was a ridiculous failure. We had Sir Charles Rooking Carter's account of it; very funny, and I dont wonder that Lord Bury "made haste" and ran

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