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, by persons resident in this country, for the payment of a sum adequate to meet the expenses of Government (which sum they would propose should not exceed £7,000 in any one year, or £100,000 in the whole), together with ample security for the immediate purchase of waste land to the amount of £20,000.

"If, however, the great pains which the Committee have taken to render the charter wholly unexceptionable should not prove successful, if Mr. Secretary Stanley should still disapprove of the measure or any part of it; and if there be any modification of it that would make it entirely agreeable to him, the Committee beg that he will be pleased to specify such modification on one of the enclosed drafts, and to return the same to them, so that without giving him the trouble of a long correspondence and repeated interviews, they may obtain for their own guidance an accurate knowledge of his views.

"February 25th.—Lefevre told that Stanley felt convinced we had some hidden object, in consequence of our committee being all Radicals, and he was therefore very suspicious of the measure. Finished to-day my digest of the evidence as to the locality, and not before it is wanted, for it is now out of print.

"February 26th—Called on Currie, who has seen the Bishop of London, and conversed over with him the