Shepherd Lytton

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Earl of Carnarvon's letter of the 22nd Instant stating your desire to be furnished with Extracts of the letters lately received by the Hudson's Bay Company from Governor Douglas on the subject of the Gold fields on Fraser's River, and I beg in accordance therewith to transmit the accompanying copy of a letter from Governor Douglas dated Victoria April 27th and Extracts of his letters of the 19th and 30th of the same month.