Romaine to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of Secretary
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, that Rear Admiral Baynes in a letter
dated 29th Oct. last, reports that the party of Royal
Engineers vizt one Officer and twenty Men, who
were ordered to be conveyed from Panama to Vancouver's
Island in one of HM Ships, had arrived at Esquimalt on
that day in the United States Mail Steamer.