Colonial Despatches

Despatch from London.

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Labouchere acknowledges the receipt of Douglas’s despatch enclosing correspondence with the Governor of Washington Territory on the subject of the outrages committed on the Citizens of the United States by the Native Indian Tribes and he approves Douglas’s proceedings on this occasion.