Colonial Despatches

The Committee of this Society have instructed me to state that in compliance with the wish of Col. Moody, R.E. they sent the Rev. W.B. Crickmer to British Columbia viâ Panama that he might arrive with the Chief Commissioner and without unnecessary delay. This arrangement involved the Society in considerable expenditure—and obliged Mr Crickmer to leave many of his packages to be transmitted by the longer route by Cape Horn.

Under these circumstances they hope the Government will permit Mr Crickmer's boxes to be shipped, free of charge, in the "Euphrates" which is about to sail within a fortnight from the Port of London; and venture to solicit this favor from H.M. Secretary of State for the Colonies. These boxes could thus be conveyed with those of Colonel Moody & be delivered without loss of time to the Missionary Clergyman. The Authorities at the Admiralty have kindly intimated that there is room in the Euphrates.