I transmit to you Copies of two letters which I have received from
               the 
Foreign Office with Despatches from Her Majesty's Minister at
               
Washington respecting a Memorial said to have been signed by a number of
               Residents in 
Victoria, 
British Columbia, and addressed to the President
               of the United States with a view to his endeavouring to induce Her
               Majesty's Government to consent to the transfer of the Colony to the
               United States.