The 
Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had
               before Them your letter of the 
30 Ultimo enclosing a
               Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of 
British Columbia with an
               Ordinance—No 9 of 
1865—to apply the sum of £225,946.12.8
               to the service of the year 
1865, & Their Lordships desire me
               to acquaint you, for the information of 
M Secretary
                  Cardwell, that They will defer the consideration of this
               Ordinance until They have before Them the Estimates & other
               documents which should have accompanied it, & which the
               Secretary of State has called for.