I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of 
Mr Merivale's letter of the 
27th
                  Ultimo,
               
               transmitting a copy of a correspondence between the Governor of
               
Vancouver's Island and the Captains of Her Majesty's Ships "
Satellite"
               and "
Plumper"; and also of a despatch from the former, in which he
               announces that he has authorized a temporary addition to the pay of the
               crews of those ships out of the territorial revenue of the Colony.