No. 10

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
125 of the 30th November enclosing a letter addressed to you by certain
delegates from a convention held at Yale enclosing copies of Resolutions
and an address on the subject of the admission of British Columbia into
the Dominion of Canada, the desirability of immediately establishing
Representative Institutions with responsible Government in the Colony,
and the necessity for retrenchment in the Public Expenditure.

Your despatch also encloses what appear to be certain
advertisements signed by persons in Victoria who declare that those
delegates have not in any way received authority to represent their
opinions or desires.