defence, it is intended to attach it to Col.Sec. like the Judicial. Still if not directly officially connected, we shall still be a good deal thrown in one another's way. Who will you have in Native? I suppose you will bring him with you when you come down. Clarke, if he could be spared, wd. I think fill the office very well, and I should be glad to see him here. I am afraid poor old Halse will break his heart - he knows nothing of it yet.