With reference to the last paragraph of the despatch of 
6th
                  ult. from the Governor of 
British Columbia, copy of which was
               transmitted in your letter of 
10th inst, I am directed by the
               Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state, for the
               information of 
Earl Granville, that the desire of the Admiralty
               is that the present arrangement, by which the Account of
               Expenditure in connection with
the
 the Detachment of Royal Marines
               at 
San Juan Island is made up for the year from 
1st January to
                  31st December, should be changed, and that for the future the
               Account should be made up from the 
31st March in one year to
               the same date in the next.
               
               I am also to request that directions may be given for the early
               transmission of the Account for the Quarter to 31 March 1870 in
               order to give effect to this arrangement.