He deplores the frequent changes in Secretaries of State and Under-Secretaries, which made consistency of policy very difficult to maintain, the appointment of General Grant in ignorance of his former connection with the Moss case, and the unwillingness of inexperienced Secretaries of State to ask advice over matters of patronage. He refers to the lack of discretion shown by John Jeremie on his arrival in Mauritius, which had given advantage to his enemies and gives his own opinion of Stanley's apprenticeship system. (Copy.)