Murray to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter of the 29th ultimo respecting the
wish expressed by the Governor of British Columbia to learn the
nature of the Treaty of Reciprocity which would be proposed to
the United States; I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to
request that you will bring under Earl Granville's notice the
despatch from Lord Monck of which copy was inclosed in your
letter of the 6th of November setting forth the Grounds on
which he considered that it would be unadvisable to make
proposals in this matter to the Government of the United States,
until that Government should have taken the initiative in regard
to it.

Since the date of your letter no further information on the
subject has been received from Mr Thornton and the whole
subject appears to be in abeyance at present.