Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your Letters of the 25th Inst, enclosing
a Despatch to be transmitted to the Officer Administering the
Government of British Columbia, by the first Officer of Her
Majesty's Naval Service proceeding to that Colony, I am Commanded
by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for
the information of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
that there is no officer under Orders to proceed to British
Columbia or Vancouver.

The Despatch is herewith enclosed.