Colonial Despatches

On the 25th ulto I received your telegram stating on what conditions Mr. Phillip[p]o would accept the Puisne Judgeship of B. Guiana and on the 28th I telegraphed back "I am unable to assent to Phillipo's conditions and must appoint some one else."

I request that youwill will inform Mr. Phillipo that with every desire to meet his wishes, I could not undertake that the Canadian Government would recognize his claim to a pension in the event of his failing to serve long enough in B. Guiana to earn one under the pension Rules of that Colony, and I would observe that taking such an early opportunity of offering Mr. Phillippo in consequence of the approaching lapse in the office which he now holds I was much influenced by the view of the Government of Canada as intimated to me in your Despatch No. 147 of the 17th November, that the provisionof of a pension for an Officer whose service in B.C. had been so short, would bear hardly upon the Dominion.

But independently of this consideration, Mr. Phillipo's inability to leave for B. Guiana, before June next the cause of which I regret would have caused an inconvenient delay in bringing up the Judicial staff of that Colony to its proper complement.