No. 43

I requested the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
to give directions for the supply of the Lighthouse Stores and the ruby
shades for the Fisgard Lighthouse for which application was made in your
despatch No. 32 of the 25th of May last, and their Lordships have
apprized me that one ruby shade has been delivered to Messrs. Ewis and
Macey of King William's Street London, to go via Panama; that two shades
have been shipped with the other Lighthouse stores by the "Severn" which
goes round Cape Horn; and that of the remaining three shades one will be
sent to Her Majestys Consul at Panama, the other two by the next vessel
which sails round Cape Horn.

I am further informed that each of the ruby glass shades to go via
"Panama and by the "Severn" have been made in two pieces of thicker
glass in order to ensure as much as possible their safe conveyance.

A Bill of Lading of the Articles shipped on board the "Severn" is
enclosed.