No. 96

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch
together with an Address of Condolence to the Queen from the
Inhabitants of Vancouver Island.

I have to request that you will inform the Chairman and Secretary
of the Public Meeting from whom this Address has emanated that I have
duly laid it before The Queen and that Her Majesty derived much
satisfaction from the sentiments of sympathy and attachment expressed
by Her loyal subjects the inhabitants of Vancouver Island.