In reply to your letter of the 
30
                  Ultimo
               
               requesting that arrangements might be made on board the Freight Ship
               
               "
Briseis" for the reception of a party of NonCommissioned Officers of the
               
               
               Royal Engineers & Royal Artillery, with their Families, together with an
               Officer's Servant, for conveyance to 
Vancouver's Island—I am commanded
               by my 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the
               information of 
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, that orders for the
               accommodation
of
 of the persons referred to were given upon a requisition
               from the Horse Guards, received on the 
30
                  Ultimo.