Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to
Grey, Right Honorable, Second Baronet, Sir George
29 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 10699, 115.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (1).
Douglas writes to Grey to acknowledge Newcastle’s correspondence on Paris’s “Universal Exhibition of Agricultural and Manufacturing
Produce,” and the call for “the Colonies” to submit exhibits for the event.
The minutes ask that the contents of Douglas’s despatch be communicated to the “Department of Science and Art.”
No. 38
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a Circular Despatch
from the Duke of Newcastle, dated the 29th of May last, transmitting
copies of the Decrees, Regulations and Instructions under which His
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, has directed that the
Universal Exhibition of Agricultural and Manufacturing Produce shall be
opened at Paris on the 1st of May 1855, and also copy of a
communication addressed to His Grace bydirection
direction of the Lords of the
Committee of Privy Council for Trade, recommending certain steps which
it is desirable should be adopted without delay, in order that the
industry and resources of the Colonies should be duly represented at the
Exhibition. And his Grace further directs that due publicity may be
given to the project of this Exhibition, and that I should lend my
influence to the formation of a Committee in this Colony for the purpose
of securing every facility for the due representation of the
Manufactures or Produce of the Colony, and I beg to assure you, that I
shall attend to those instructions.
direction of the Lords of the
Committee of Privy Council for Trade, recommending certain steps which
it is desirable should be adopted without delay, in order that the
industry and resources of the Colonies should be duly represented at the
Exhibition. And his Grace further directs that due publicity may be
given to the project of this Exhibition, and that I should lend my
influence to the formation of a Committee in this Colony for the purpose
of securing every facility for the due representation of the
Manufactures or Produce of the Colony, and I beg to assure you, that I
shall attend to those instructions.
To The Right Honorable Sir George Grey
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
For the Colonial Department
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
For the Colonial Department