Colonial Despatches

I have the honor to report that George Francis Train has visited Victoria.

2. Train had been for some weeks in San Francisco deliveringlectures lectures. He threatened to land in British Columbia with 2000 men and take possession of the Colony.

3. From San Francisco he visited Portland, and a few days before he arrived here, the Senior Naval Officer on this Station, Captain Edye, of Her Majesty's Ship "Satellite," received a telegram from the British Consul at San Francisco, informinghim him that Train had left that place and might be expected in Victoria.

4. The day before he arrived I received information through a Private Telegram that he would come here in a Steamer called the "Wilson G. Hunt," a regular trader between Victoria and the Ports on Puget Sound.

5. As the day on which Train was expected bythe the "W.G. Hunt," was not the regular day for that vessel to arrive, it created some uneasiness in my mind, and I made application to the Senior Naval Officer for the Gun Boat "Forward" to be sent round and anchored in Victoria Harbour, in order that we might be prepared to repel any acts of aggression on the part of Train or his followers; I thought it justpossible possible he might endeavour to create some disturbance in the Town. However, he arrived quietly in the "Wilson G. Hunt" and left a few hours afterwards by the same vessel and I see no reason to apprehend any disturbance.

6. I enclose copy of a letter on the subject from the Police Magistrate together with a Report fromthe the Inspector of Police. I add an extract from our local Newspaper of this day's date.