I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
               the 
5th Instant, informing me that, on the recommendation of
               
Earl Granville, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
               Treasury have sanctioned the payment to me of the sum of £110—to
               reimburse me the expense of my passage Home from 
British
                  Columbia—and enclosing
the
 the formal letter to enable me to obtain
               the amount from the Paymaster General.