Secret Committee, Tuesday, May 20th.

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Secret Committee, Tuesday, May 20th.

1. Mr. Buller read to the committee Lord Stanley's letter of yesterday. 2. The draft of Mr. Buller's reply was read and adopted. Adjourned to four o'clock on Thursday next.

Lord Stanley to Mr. Buller. (Private.) Downing Street, May 19, I€ls. My dbar. Sir — My colleagues and I have, as we undertook, given the fullest and fairest consideration to the propositions on the part of the New Zealand Company, made to me officially in Lord Ingestre's letter of the sth instant. Sir Robert Peel's absence from town made it impossible for us to communicate personally upon the subject till Saturday; but all the papers connected with it had been sent down to him in the country. I regret to say that the result of the most attentive consideration which we could give to the proposed scheme, is a conviction on our part that it is not capable of being the basis of a satisfactory arrangement. It will of course be my duty to communicate this decision officially to the Company ; but I was desirous of giving you the earliest intelligencu of our views, and if you can arrange with Sir James Graham any hour, not sooner than Thursday, at two o'clock, on which we may renew our personal communications, I shall be happy to see you with him, either here or at my house, and to state to you generally the objections which we have felt to be conclusive against the projects. I know not whether it may be practicable to suggest any other, and of course quite different, basis for an arrangement which should relieve the Company, the colony, and, I will add, the Government from the embarrassment of the present state of affairs. I am, &c, Stanley.