Wodehouse to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Having laid before Lord John Russell your letter of the 17th Instant
and its Inclosure from the War Office relative to the question of
despatching an Infantry Regiment from China to Vancouver's Island, I
am directed by His Lordship to request that you will state to The
Duke of Newcastle that he is willing that the Despatch of these Troops
should be postponed for the present.