No. 27

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [Vancouver
Island] Despatch No 33 of the 13th of August
last,

enclosing copies of your correspondence with the House of Assembly from
the 16th June, to the 10th of August.

I have read with great regret the painful disclosures as to the
state of the Prison in Vancouver's
Island

which are contained in the report of the Committee appointed to enquire
into that subject, and I earnestly hope that through your energy and the
favorable disposition of the Assembly measures will not only
be proposed but carried out to remedy so great an evil.