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No. 56. Sib,— Downing Street, 27th June, 1864. It lias been represented to me through the Board of Trade, that it not unfrequcntly happens that the first notification of the establishment of a light for the guidance of ships ill any of our own Colonies reaches that Department and the Admiralty through Foreign Governments. It is highly important that the earliest and most authentic information should be received by Her Majesty's Government on the establishment of a new light in any Colony; and I have to request that, whenever any such new light shall be established in the Colony under your Government, you will not fail to give me the eai'liest information on the subject. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., &c, &c.,'&c. Edwaed Cabdwell. No. 57. Sib,— Downing Street, 30th June, 1864. The Act 26th Victoria, cap. 24, which was transmitted to you with the Circular Despatch from this Department of the 30th June, 1863, provides that "in any British Possession where the office of Judge of a Vice-Admiralty Court is now or shall at any time hereafter become vacant, the Chief Justice, or the principal Judicial Officer of such Possession, or the person for the time being lawfully authorised to act as such, shall be ex-officio Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court until a notification is received that a formal appointment to that Office has been made by the Admiralty. In order that there may be no doubt as to creation of a vacancy in that Office, it will be desirable that you should take care that when any Chief Justice or Judge, holding a direct appointment from the Admiralty, may relinquish his Colonial Judicial appointment, he should also surrender his commission as Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court. The principle would apply under the sth Section of the same Act to officers holding appointments from the Admiralty as Begistrars and Marshals of that Court. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., <fee, &c, &c. Edwaed Caedwell. No. 58. Sib,— Downing Street, 30th June, 1864. The Act 26th Victoria, cap. 24, "To facilitate the appointment of Vice-Admirals and of Officers in Vice-Admiralty Courts in Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, and to confirm the past proceedings, to extend the jurisdiction, and to amend the practice of the Courts," provides, amongst other things, that " in any British Possession where the Office of Vice-Admiral is now or shall at any time hereafter become vacant, the Governor of such possession shall be ex-oflieio Vice-Admiral thereof, until a notification is received in the possession that a formal appointment to the Office has been made by the Admiralty in the manner hereinafter mentioned." The intention of that clause was to convey to every successive Governor, by Statute, the powers which had theretofore been conveyed to each Governor by his Vice-Admiral's commission, but as there are grounds for apprehending that some confusion might arise if the prior authority should remain outstanding, it will bo desirable that you should resign the Commission under which you have hitherto acted, your powers as Vice-Admiral remaining vested in you under the provisions of the Statute. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., &c, &c, &c. Edwabd Caedwell. No. 59. Sib,— Downing Street, 16th July, 1864. In my jiredecessor's Circular Despatch of the 14th July, 1860, you were informed that no person was entitled to wear the uniform of any Colonial Office after having ceased to hold that office, imless with the consent of the Queen, which consent, however, might be applied for through the Governor. It has recently happened that applications of this kind have been made, not through the Governor, but directly through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and in some cases by Officers who, while in Her Majesty's Service, had not acquired the right to wear the iinifonn to which their application referred. I have now been informed by the Lord Chamberlain, that the Queen is averse in principle to the continuance of the civil uniform generally beyond the tenor of office, and that it is Her Majesty's wish that all such applications from Colonial Officers should proceed in the first instance from the Governors of Colonies only ; those cases alone being recommended for Her Majesty's sanction where length or merit of service would appear to render it desirable that the privilege should be continued. I am further to instruct you, that no Officer should be recommended for the privilege of wearing any uniform which was not attached to his office during his tenure of it. You will be guided strictly by these decisions in any recommendation which you may make on this subject on behalf of any Colonial Officer. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., &c, &c, &c. Edward Cabdwell. No. 60. Sib,— Downing Street, 10th July, 1864. I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Dublin Exhibition Palace and Winter Garden Company, requesting that the Governors of the various British Colonies may be

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