Lushington to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit for the information of Earl Granville extracts from a
Letter of Rear Admiral Honble G.F. Hastings, dated Callao
27 July, reporting the death of His Excellency Governor Seymour
on board H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, during the passage to the Northern
Settlements of British Columbia.

2. The Real Admiral also mentions that some excitement
prevailed in the Colony, owing to the threats of a Fenian
Invasion, uttered at a public meeting by Mr George Train, to
which however H.M. Consul at San Francisco attached little importance.