Berens to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 4th Instant respecting the claims of the Hudson's Bay
Company to compensation for expenses incurred by them in
connection with Vancouver's Island; and I have to request that
you will inform Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton that I have given
directions for the preparation of an amended account of the sums
due to the Company on the basis laid down in the Earl of Carnarvon's letter of the 28th of July.