In reply to your Letter of the 
20th Instant, requesting
               to be informed whether the party referred to, in my Letter of
               the 
4th Instant, as having been conveyed to 
British
                  Columbia, and for whose passages payment is requested, consisted
               principally of Sappers and Miners; I am commanded by my
               Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the
               information of His Grace the 
Duke of Newcastle, that Party
               embarked in the "
Thames City" for conveyance to 
British
                  Columbia consisted
consisted as follows viz
t
               
               
               Officers Ladies Men Women Children
               
               1      —  114   31     34     Royal Engineers
               
               1      —    2    —     —     15
th Huzzars
               
               1      —    1    —     —     Royal Art
y
               
               1      —    1    —     —     Medical Staff
               
               1       1    —   —     —     Chaplain
               
               1      —    —   —     —     Collector of Customs