Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I have received and laid before my Lord's Commissioners of
the Admiralty Your letter of the 16th Instant transmitting a
copy of a despatch dated the 7th of March from the Governor
of British Columbia urging the expediency of establishing a
subsidized line of British Packets between Panama and the Colony.
My Lords have received representations from the Senior Naval
Officer at VanCouvers of the inconvenience to which the Naval
Service is reposed for want of a regular mail service, and there
can be no doubt that it is most desirable to organize some more
reliable system than exists at present for communicating with
the British Possessions in N.W. America and the Head Quarters of
the Naval Commander in Chief at Vancouver Island.

My Lords would therefore suggest that the question be brought
under the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury and Post Master
General.