No. 25

I have the honor to acknowledge your Grace's confidential despatch of
the 13th February last transmitting copies of correspondence between
Her Majesty's Government and the Government of the United States on
the settlement of the San Juan question, and copy of a despatch from
Lord Lyons reporting the substance of a conversation with General
Cass on reading to him the proposals of Her Majesty's Government for
the settlement of the Oregon boundary question.