With reference to your letter of the 
5th instant
               intimating the wish of the 
Duke of Newcastle that 
Captain
                  Lempriere R.E. should, in consequence of his promotion,
               be withdrawn from 
British Columbia, and suggesting that the
               vacancy occasioned among the Subalterns of the Party of
               Royal Engineers in the Colony should not be filled up:
               
I
               
               I am directed by 
Mr Secretary Herbert to transmit to
               you, for the information of His Grace, the enclosed copy
               of a letter received from the Horse Guards, stating that the
               General Commanding in Chief sees no objection to this
               proposal. 
Captain Lempriere will be recalled accordingly.