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 consistedconsisted 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