Lugard to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 5th instant
intimating the wish of the Duke of Newcastle that Captain
Lempriere R.E. should, in consequence of his promotion,
be withdrawn from British Columbia, and suggesting that the
vacancy occasioned among the Subalterns of the Party of
Royal Engineers in the Colony should not be filled up:

I am directed by Mr Secretary Herbert to transmit to
you, for the information of His Grace, the enclosed copy
of a letter received from the Horse Guards, stating that the
General Commanding in Chief sees no objection to this
proposal. Captain Lempriere will be recalled accordingly.

I am to add that the date of this Officer's promotion
to the rank of 2nd Captain is

the 20th June 1859.