No. 5

I have duly received your Despatch of the 5th October last No
27, acknowledging receipt of my Despatch of the 13th August No
33, enclosing copies of correspondence with the House of
Assembly of Vancouver's Island and conveying to me your
sentiments respecting the faulty state of the Prison, and
trusting that measures might be carried out to remedy the evil.

2. The subject is one which has caused me much thought and
uneasiness, and it has weighed heavily upon me from the fact of
my being powerless for want of means to effect a change.
However as I feel now well assured from the tenor of your
Despatch, of the assistance of Her Majesty's Government, I have
taken immediate steps to give effect to my own wishes in the
matter, and I shall forthwith cause a Prison to be constructed,
and accommodation provided for Prisoners that I trust will
result in a report of a very different character from that to
which you refer, and which I sincerely regret there should ever
have been occasion to frame.