No. 71

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch
of the 11th November 1858 No 38 upon the subject of the
escape of Mr Brew, Chief Commissioner of Police in British
Columbia, from the steamer "Austria" destroyed by fire on
the voyage to New York.

2. I have informed Mr Brew of the kind sympathy you
have manifested at the disasters which befel him, and it has
given me sincere satisfaction to communicate to him the
considerate act on the part of Her Majesty's Government in
granting him the sum of one hundred pounds (£100) to
re-imburse him for the losses he has sustained.