Colonial Despatches

I have the honor to transmit herewith a Memorial, which has been entrusted to me to lay before your Grace, from certain of the Inhabitants of British Columbia present at a Public meeting held at NewNew Westminster, praying that a direct Steam communication may be established between Panama and New Westminster, and that a sum of Five Thousand Pounds (£5000), or more if necessary, should be granted from the Colonial Revenues to subsidize for present expediency a line between San Francisco and New Westminster.

2. I have already hadthe the honor very fully to address your Grace upon the subject of the disadvantages under which Her Majesty's dominions in this section of the Globe labor, through the absence of direct Steam Communication with the Mother Country. It is therefore not necessary that I should here enter into any recapitulation of those matters. I will only say that the Memorial nowforwarded forwarded is in perfect accordance with my own views as to the importance of our not being, as now, entirely dependent upon a Foreign Power for our intercourse with the Mother Country and the rest of the civilized world.