No. 4

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch
No. 15 of the 31st Octr placing on record some of the
motives by which Her Majesty's Government were actuated in
effecting the complete Union of Vancouver Island with British Columbia.

2. I have forwarded a copy of Your Lordships despatch to
the late Speaker of the House of Assembly and have caused it
to be inserted in the Gazette. I consider it calculated to
effect much good in calming local irritation. Vancouver Island
is now in a state of great depression but I believe that most
persons are sanguine as to the future of the United Colony.