Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have laid before The Earl of Clarendon your letter of the 7th
Instant inclosing a copy of a Letter from the Hudsons Bay
Company inclosing the Draft of a Despatch which they propose to
address to the Governor of VanCouvers' Island on the subject of
the expected Emigration of the Mormons from the Territory of
Utah to Her Majesty's possessions in Oregon; 
and I am directed
by His Lordship to request that you will state to Mr Secretary Labouchere
 that he concurs in the terms of the proposed
despatch.

I am to add that it will be for Mr Labouchere to consider
whether in the event of the Mormons carrying out their supposed
intention, the Hudson's Bay Company should not be 
aided by Her
Majesty's Naval Forces in resisting the invasion.