Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, a copy of a letter from Rear Admiral Hastings,
dated the 9th November No 198, reporting his having detailed a
Guard of Marines to be mounted at Government House, Victoria,
for the protection of the Governor during the unsettled state of
Affairs in connection with the rumoured Fenian Attempts in the
Colony.

The Guard will be removed so soon as the present difficulty has
subsided.