Murray to Fortescue (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)

I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you, to be laid
before The Duke of Newcastle, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's
Consul at San Francisco, reporting the establishment of a horse
express overland to that City from St. Joseph's Missouri, by which
mode of conveyance letters for Vancouvers Island would probably reach
their destination some time before the regular mail.