Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 26th Ultimo, I am directed
by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you for the information
of Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton a copy of a Report from
Her 
Majesty's Advocate General stating that the Governor of
Vancouver's Island acted properly in declining to deliver up to
the United States Government the soldiers who had deserted from
the Army of the United States.