Romaine to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

In reply to your Letter of the 20th Instant, requesting
to be informed whether the party referred to, in my Letter of
the 4th Instant, as having been conveyed to British
Columbia, and for whose passages payment is requested, consisted
principally of Sappers and Miners; I am commanded by my
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the
information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, that Party
embarked in the "Thames City" for conveyance to British
Columbia consisted as follows vizt

Officers Ladies Men Women Children

1 — 114 31 34 Royal Engineers

1 — 2 — — 15th Huzzars

1 — 1 — — Royal Arty

1 — 1 — — Medical Staff

1 1 — — — Chaplain

1 — — — — Collector of Customs