I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 
30th
                  October last, No. 19, in answer to mine of the 
14th August, No. 84, with
               reference to the Union of 
British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada a
               copy of which, for the reasons you have stated, you thought
it
 it best at
               once to make public.
               
 
            
            
               I approve of your having published my Despatch, and I should wish
               you to use your own judgment respecting the mode and time of bringing
               the question before your Council, and not to suppose yourself bound to
               bring forward any formal proposal unless you think that by so doing you
               will promote the acceptance of the Union.