Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to Mr Elliot's letters of the 14th and 22nd
ultimo, relating to the conveyance of Mails between San Francisco
and British Columbia, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you, for the information of
the Duke of Buckingham, the enclosed copy of a letter from the
Postmaster General relating to this subject, and I am desired to
state that My Lords concur in opinion with the Duke of Montrose that
it would not be advisable on postal grounds to incur on the part of
the Imperial Government the considerable expenditure which the
establishment of a subsidized line of British Packets between
Panama and British Columbia would involve.