I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of Secretary
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, that
Rear Admiral Baynes in a letter
dated
29 Oct. last, reports that the party of Royal
Engineers viz one Officer and twenty Men, who
were ordered to be conveyed from
Panama to
Vancouver's
Island in one of HM Ships, had arrived at
Esquimalt on
that day in the United States Mail Steamer.