Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to my letter of the 24th
Ultimo,

I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you herewith, for
the information of Secretary Sir Edward Lytton a copy of a despatch from
Mr Booker, Her Majesty's Consul at San Francisco, reporting the
arrival at and departure from that Port for Vancouver's Island of Captain Grant and his Party of the Royal Engineers.