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No. 47. Sic, — Downing Street, 23rd August, 1861. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 30th May last, No. S4, informing me that above 100 Rebel Natives were killed and wounded on the occasion of the attack on Sentry Hill Eedoubt, on the 30th April last. I have, &c, Governor Sir G-eorgo Grey, X.C.8., &c, &c, &c. Edwabd Cabdwell. No. 48. •Sib,— Downing Street, 23rd August, 1861. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 6th June, No. 86, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Bishop of Waiapu, in which he gives his reasons for believing that the War against Waikato was necessary, and could not be avoided. I have, &c, Governor Sir G-eorge Grey, X.C.8., &c, &c, &c. Edwatid Caedwell. No. 49. •Sic, — Downing Street, 25th August, 1864. I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Treasury, having reference to the question of the present Packet Service between Australia and New Zealand, and I have to instruct you to guide yourself in accordance with the wishes of the Lords Commissioners, as shewn by their letter. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., <fee, &c, &C. Edwaed Cabdwell. No. 50. Sir,— Downing Street, 6th April, 1864. In the month of January, 1563, I caused to be transmitted to you, in common with other Governors of Colonies in which the Government is responsible to the Legislature, a copy of a circular despatch addressed on the Ist of the month to the Governors of all other colonies, requesting answers to one series of interrogations respecting public hospitals, and to another respecting lunatic asylums. The circular despatch explained the object with which the information was sought, and the answers it was hoped would place me in a position to take a view of the state of the public hospitals and lunatic asylums in the Colonies, and to recommend such measures as might effect improvements in them, and promote the further alleviation of human suffering. I did not require Governors of Colonies having Responsible Government that they should render an account of these institutions, which might very possibly be removed from their absolute and immediate control. I left it to these Governors to deal with the communication made to them as they might deem expedient, relying upon the interest which they would feel in the subjects of so much importance to the public welfare. But it would have been gratifying to me to have received from them any information they might be in a position to afford, and Governor Sir Henry Barkly, then administering the Government of Victoria, with his habitual alacrity and zeal in the promotion of public objects and of the interests of humanity, furnished me with information in respect to the hospitals and lunatic asylums of Victoria similar to that which had been required from the Governors of Colonies not having Governments responsible to the Legislature. I have received similar information from the Governors of Canada, Tasmania, and other important Colonies. From New Zealand I have not received any acknowledgment of the communication made to you. But I nevertheless transmit to you herewith a copy of a circular despatch which I have this day addressed to the Governors of Colonies not having Responsible Governments, and of its enclosure, from which you will learn the general tenor of the information concerning Colonial hospitals and lunatic asylums which has been received, and also the steps which I have thought it desirable to take in the endeavour to make that information available for inducing amendments in the manner of treating the indigent sick and lunatics in the Colonies. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., &c. Edward Cabdwell. No. 51. Sib,— Downing Street, Sth April, 1864. I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty has been pleased to entrust to my care, as •one of the Principal Secretaries of State, the Seals of the Colonial Department. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., &c. Edwabd Cardwell. No. 52. ■Sib,— Downing Street, 23rd April, 1864. The following instructions have been drawn up by Her Majesty's Government for the guidance of Her Majesty's civil and naval authorities abroad, during the continuance of the present hostilities between Denmark and the German Powers, and it will be your duty to take care that these instructions are strictly observed within the Colony tmder your government. I. During the continuance of the present hostilities between His Majesty the King of Denmark,

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TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.