Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 25th ultimo, I am directed
by The Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you herewith, to be
laid before Lord Stanley, a Copy of a Despatch from Her
Majesty's Minister at Washington reporting what passed between
him and the United States' Secretary of State relative to the
payment of a sum of money advanced 
by the Governor of
Vancouver's Island to the Governor of Washington territory for
the purpose of prosecuting hostilities against the Indian Tribes.