No. 12

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch
No 5 of the 2nd September 1858, forwarding to me copies of
a correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Board of
Admiralty, of the dates as per margin, on the subject of
affording Naval assistance to British 
Columbia.

2. I glean from this correspondence the just appreciation
you have formed of the importance of the Service referred to,
and I feel truly grateful for the great interest Her Majesty's
Government have taken in the protection and advancement of
British Columbia, as is evidenced by the nature of the instructions
which this correspondence has caused to be given to the Commander
in Chief of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in the Pacific.